Visitors to America shared the biggest ‘WTFs’ when they went to the US for the first time – 27 stateside eye-openers

10.

‘The ads in between tv shows felt unnecessarily long, and also repeated the same info, just worded differently.’
APerson629

11.

‘The size of everything. Still shocks me that driving from NYC to Cleveland, OH takes twice as much time as a trip across my country. Airport security is also overwhelming (and extremely boring).’
EmbCMurphy

12.

‘Perfect strangers asking me how I am doing.’
FakeRealist

13.

‘Was on an exchange. 2 most memorable questions were “Can you see the moon in Europe” and “Do you have Pizza in Europe”.

‘Something else I’ll never forget was the map of Europe in the school I went to which still showed the country of Yugoslavia (which doesnt exist anymore) and all the borders were f-cked up. A map IN THE SCHOOL.’
TAS_Snoop

14.

‘Raccoons stealing our bread over night while camping. The box was closed and we put weights on it, yet these clever little trash pandas found a way in and out.’
TheBassMeister

15.

‘The political ads on TV that do not promote but instead demonize candidates! “So and so is a devil from hell that will eat your newborn for breakfast if you vote for them! Don’t do it if you love America!” Scary music and black and white footage included. Weird, very weird.’
MagsClouds

16.

‘On the first day of our US roadtrip we stopped for lunch at a roadside restaurant south of San Francisco. When we tried to pay the waiter told us that another customer that just had left paid for our meals and whished us a nice trip.
WTF, who does that. So nice! Totally made my day and honestly the whole vacation.’
GuantanaMo

17.

‘Answering for someone else. (I’m American answering for a German). Ice machines in hotels. They couldnt understand why the hotels had so many ice machines and why there are signs for them.

‘I couldnt stop laughing about it and honestly have no idea why we love ice so much.

‘He also asked what people had in the big plastic cups. I said pop/soda. He laughed and said they look like they are 1.5 liters, there is no way they are drinking soda. Silly friend, yes yes they are.’
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18.

‘Portion sizes and adverts for drugs would be the big two. All the other differences would be either stuff you don’t experience on holiday or within the kind of differences you’d expect from another country. But the meals were just unbelievably massive, and having people hawk serious medication to you through the TV was very jarring.’
SamWhite