What’s weird about that?

This is a (dramatic) recreation of the conversation our team leader, Jess, had with one of our squad leaders:

Joshua (squad leader): So where did you say you traveled to for ministry sometimes?
Jess: Oh, you know… across the border into Transnistria!  It’s awesome!
Joshua: Trans-what?  We sent you to Moldova, Jess…
Jess: Oh, yeah… well Transnistria doesn’t technically exist
Joshua: OK you lost me.  Just tell me what you did on your day off yesterday.
Jess: Well in the morning we crossed the imaginary border into Transnistria and ended up spending the whole day in a city that’s over 600 years old.  We ate street cake, went bargain shopping for coats and crashed a Transnistrian wedding on the riverbank… was that before or after we went shopping at the Sheriff grocery store?  I think that was before… yeah.
Joshua:  [silence]
Jess: It was awesome!  Kyle fell on his face trying to walk on pogo stilts. 
Joshua: OK back up, tell me more about Transnistria…
Jess: Oh that reminds me!  They have their own currency that we’re having to use instead of Moldovan Lei.  That’s OK, right? 
Joshua:  What?!
Jess: Haha you should see their customs checkpoint we go through.  It looks more like a gas station. 
Joshua: Jess, what is going on over there?!
Jess:  What?  Is something weird about that?  This is the World Race, dude… whatever!
Joshua:  Are you OK, though?  Tell me how everyone’s doing.
Jess:  Oh yeah, we’re great!  Tommy and Kam left this morning to go to the beaver farm for a few days while the rest of us stay back for ministry.  Some of us needed to be here to take Stacey to get X-rays of her heels, anyway. 
Joshua:  [pause]   What?!
Jess: Well, she thought she was jumping off a 5-foot ledge into water but it was actually concrete.

–end of recreation–