The frog consultant arrives in Papua New Guinea and is delighted to receive the keys to her rental car.
Positively glowing with excitement, she rushes to the vehicle prepared to take on the mean streets of Port Moresby.
But what is this? "Reverse" is in the top left hand corner. How weird.
Frog consultant tries to engage reverse gear but to no avail.
She calls on a local frog to help, but he too struggles to make the car do anything other than hop forward.
Ah hah.
Frog spies a radio, and calls back to base for back-up.
"Bravo Delta Bravo 289 calling frog base, over".
Frog base says "you need to find the knob near the gear stick and push down on that. Over."
The froggy helper tries - but to no avail.
Eventually the frogs determine that the funny ring on the gear stick itself might play a role.
They push and pull it up into position and Frog Consultant is on her way.
And, as all good consultants do, she makes a note of lessons learned:
In PNG, push means pull and knob means ring.
Make of that what you will.
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