When I lived in Houston I remember once they had a explosion inside a garbage truck and it turned out it was caused because someone had thrown away live ammunition.

The neighborhood it happened in was surrounding the university I went to and someone who I went to school with knew family friends of the older lady who had done it and thus found out more about what happened.

The old woman had found her late husband's ammo that was green and old so she put it in the trash not knowing any better, after the explosion and assuming it was her fault, she called and confessed to the police. I don't think anything happened to her but I don't remember exactly.

The police department later had an article in the Chronicle and a news segment about how if you don't want or need ammunition you have you can call the police and they'll come pick it up no problem.

Americans will generally invite a new friend over for dinner, even if they don’t have a lot of food. Make extra biscuits, whatever it takes.

For me it’s the sacrifice I give as a mom a wife a daughter a sister etc. the sacrifice is never seen it feels like

I think the scariest one for me is that there very well could be a great, upstanding man who pursues me in earnest and genuinely wants everything I want, but I’ll be so afraid waiting for the other shoe to drop that I’ll ruin it somehow. But I’m working at conquering that fear, and not being the conquered.

Frog legs? I mean. Frog are better eating up mosquitos than being chased for food. But we do eat snails and they are very good.

American who works abroad- it always baffles me how some American tourists seem to think that nobody else in the world speaks English.

The one that comes to mind was at a train stop where some tourists who were clearly American were talking about how smelly everyone in the country was. Tourist A mentioned that Tourist B should keep her voice down, and Tourist B replied, "Why? None of them know what I'm saying." A guy standing behind them piped up with something like "Pretty much all of us speak English." The tourists faces dropped and they were silent until the train came.

It was excellent.

E: This was in Argentina, for those asking.