“Toilets Have Too Much Water In Them”: 30 Things That People From Other Countries Find Bizarre When Visiting The US

They don't chase you...they just shoot you

'Tis but a job for a lot of them. I've met only one who was amusingly human enough to change my mind... We were hungry, had no car, and fast food was our only option...but drive-through only. This cop saw us trying to order. He used his car and ordered for us. We had been on the road in a truck (which broke down) for sixteen houra. Gotdamn angel.

Where I live there was a stand off with a drug dealer. It was hours long and the media was showing it on live feed. I was at work and we were all watching it. One cop was hiding behind a tree. I looked at my friend and said do you even think he realizes he is poking out on BOTH sides of the tree?

It seems that most over weight Police where I'm at (in Virginia) are seniors in the department. I don't see any normal Police that aren't jacked.

Or they are "alpha" males on steroids and now have mental (and physical) issues due to the steroids.

The logic is that, that same shoe, you go thru filthy public toilet, walk on streets that smell musk (from p**s), walk thru park that maybe step on cats/dogs shits. And than , inside your house.

Shoes only come off in our house if we're ready to relax. The little amount of time I have to do things when I'm not working makes it a hassle to keep putting shoes on, taking them off, putting them on, taking them off. I've got too much to do.

Shoes get left @ the front door 🚪

I"m born an bred in the United States and take my shoes off on entering very frequently. Don't even think about it.

I'm originally from the Netherlands and always wore shoes in the house (my mom hated it, tho). Moved to the US about 15 years ago and never wore them in the house anymore lol

This would be so nice. Instead of 5.99+tax you could get the flat out price of 6.37

It's because sales tax varies widely between states, counties, and even cities. And they change constantly.

Considering the whoha we are currently having about whether Tesco clubcard prices should also be shown as price per unit so they can be directly compared with other sizes/brands on the shelf, I really can't fathom how the US still gets away with this.

The reason is that some items are taxable under some circumstances and not under others.. The obvious example is food.. And it's different in every state: Kentucky – Food and food ingredients are exempt from sales tax. This exemption does not include candy, tobacco, alcoholic beverages, soft drinks, dietary supplements, prepared food or any food sold through vending machines... But food is taxed at restaurants, bars, etc..

Aust - all prices are the actual price. You don't pay more.

I actually really appreciate this post. I constantly cringe at Americans being ignorant of other countries customs, but never thought about how people react to ours. And the same respect should go both ways when Americans visit other countries, and when foreigners visit ours.

In Australia, of course, it's 'G'day owyagoin?'

I constantly cringe at people who are hostile towards anyone without good reason. So I smiled at you and asked you how your day has been? And you are mad about it? Americans are a friendly bunch. I cringe evert time I see a post from another culture degrading us for being open and kind to everyone. How do you just assume that we ate not actually interested in how you are doing!? Many of us are. It's a general greeting, yes, but also many of us are genuinely interested and wouldn't word it that way if we weren't. So, I hope you are doing well. And I mean it!

So you don't like a common greeting? Do you know what I don't like? People who are annoyed by a common greeting FFS.

Same in Australia ("How ya going/how are you going") - the response is usually "good how are you?" Then you walk away and continue on.... expect is someone says bad and then i usually get ready to hear their whole life story out

Not just mosquitoes, but flies, June bugs, moths, wasps, bees and every other annoying insect that tends to swarm light.

I'm allergic to bee stings. Screens are a must in my home.

They also keep pets indoors.

This drove me nuts when I lived in England at an international college. They'd open the door and windows ALL THE TIME. I was constantly cold. I live in Maine now - where the bugs rule the Earth in spring and summer. I also have indoor cats and don't want my dog wandering the neighborhood.

I visited Germany with my mother as an adolescent years ago and was fascinated with the fact that there NO screens on the windows. I had never seen that before. My first thought - I hope there are plenty of cans of mosquito spray.

Ah, ancestral pride. That's what that is. There's some families who still practice their ancestral traditions that came from those countries. North Americans, who are not Natives, feel it's important to acknowledge where their families have come from and hold on to those cultures, as it gives us a sense of belonging. I'm trying to explain this the best, neutral, non-offensive way possible. Never heard anyone say they were from a country they weren't born in. Usually someone will say they're 1st/2nd/3rd, etc, generation born in America. Some will just say they're American/Canadian to keep it simple. But some of us see it as a more historical, complicated thing than to just say "I'm American or Canadian." European descendants living here are not deemed Native to this land. I'm not going in too deep on this, but it comes up and we're constantly reminded the settlers/colonizers who came to North America to steal the land from North American Indigenous tribes. Some of us feel we never belonged.

But I never heard an American saying "I'm English" or "I'm German". It looks like some communities were more successful than others in terms of identity. So, probably there is a previous common experience.

Who or wtf is this person referring too? Did someone get scammed?

An actual real Irish friend of mine told me when Americans used to visit Ireland and say their great great great grandfather was from their village and had a certain surname him and his friends would say "Oh yes my auntie Mary knew your relatives, come to the pub and we can tell you all about your family " the Americans would pick up the bill all night in the pub,

It's because our original immigrant culture is still close enough historically that in many places it shapes local regions and culture. A huge part of my state's non indigenous history involved Irish immigrants that left Ireland during the forced Famine to come to the state to work the copper mines. There were around 12,000 Irish immigrants/ people of Irish descent in Butte Montana by1900. Those miners were highly involved in unionization efforts, often at the risk of being murdered. They spent decades organizing, fighting, and supporting each others families. That's the reason why there's a huge St Patrick's Day celebration every year since the late 1800's and why Butte still has Irish food and drink served in many place. When Americans talk about their ancestry they're not necessarily connecting it to your modern day country, they're connecting it to a shared ancestral history that broke off decades or centuries ago and shaped our country.