People shared the things that shocked them most when they first visited the US – 17 transatlantic eye-openers
10.
‘Not me but I had this question with a friend. They said the weirdest thing was the drug commercials and that there was so many of them.’
-nasgax
11.
‘The border control questions. Having to officially declare on a form that I wasn’t traveling with a medieval catapult.’
-Ridge_Capital
12.
‘People actually say “Have a nice day!”… and somehow they mean it.’
-Hot-Summer5151
13.
‘Huge gaps in toilet doors, like WTF is that all about?!?’
-Different-Class1771
14.
‘that so much of the USA is so empty’
-Cold_Structure5853
15.
‘There’s so much sky. any time i say this to anybody, they look at me like i’m nuts. I live in a huge British city where there are skyscrapers and huge buildings everywhere all densely packed together and I feel like in a way it “blinds” you to anything else around you. then on top of that, you’ve the fact it’s always so rainy and overcast and grey here and everything feels so lifeless.
‘When I went to the states and drove around random smaller, residential parts of socal where everything’s a lot smaller and way more spread out, I saw so much sky.
‘it’s really hard to explain but it really hit me, especially during the gorgeous sunsets and sunrises and palm trees and greenery… like it snapped me out of everyday autopilot mode and reminded me there’s a whole, massive, beautiful world out there and that I exist in it, not just in my own little grey one.’
-rigathrow
16.
‘17,398 sizes, shapes and brands of every common household item on sale in a store, and plastic-wrapped individual produce.’
-the-largest-marge
17.
‘Open carry, scared the living crap outta me just seeing some random old guy walking around strapped in a Walmart.’
-throwRway6777
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