There’s quite a few that don’t have hooks. People (mainly children), who will either glance into your stall, or even park themselves against a wall or counter & stare into your stall. Had both happen to me. When that second one happens, I’ve been known to press(since I’ve got it ready), the loudest, ear splitting, obnoxious alarm for drawing attention. Believe me when I say I don’t care whoever else it scares. Absolutely not one person is ready to hear that.
@@scz1770 I thinks it's goood to have many choices! After all there's people who have allergies or special dietary. I myself can't eat a specific ice cream brand bc it has something I'm allergic to. And a friend of mine is celiac, so she needs gluten free options!
@@marag7420 yeah those are included in England lol. Obviously alternatives for allergies and intolerances matter. But we don't need as many choices as we have here, it's ridiculous.
@@marag7420 I live in Germany and we have EVERYTHING in here, even for people with allergies or special diets... and our bigger supermarkets are not half as huge as a standard one in America. You also have to think about having to throw all this stuff out once their due date has come. By far not everything will be eaten on time and all this really fine stuff goes to waste bc we want to have everything available at all times. That's already a problem in Germany. Not to begin with North America.
For those that don't know: Reverse culture shock=This woman grew up in the US and then moved abroad so she forgot that these were things that happen in the US when she came back.
@@piinksunflwrso? I've experienced reverse culture shock after only living abroad for 6 months. It's not like you completely forget about your home country, you just get used to things being different. It happens quicker than you'd think.
As an American the worst feeling is checking if someone is in a stall and making eye contact. The second worst is using a stall and someone checks if it's in use and you make eye contact Just gonna edit to say last time I did that was in elementary after the eye contact. Now I just nudge the door or assume it's used if it's closed no matter what, knocking is even weirder tbh
Nah ,if the stalls closed, just quickly check under to see thier feet. no need to make using the public restroom awkward by knocking .It takes 2 second to look down for feet lmao cuz I'd bother you right back when I'm done .leave us alone were concentrating 😆
the bathroom stall cracks baffle me. a little kid once stared at me through the crack and got scared when i said 'NO' firmly at them LMFAOO they spun around so quick
I remember being a kid, and a kid my age (i was pretty young maybe 6 or 7) just stood outside my stall, eyes glaring through the crack as though i couldnt see her. I was like "helloooo." Some kids are just weird.
@@jessmacdd you're absolutely right! I thought it was so strange because i was 6, with very clear boundaries, being mean mugged by someone else my age who apparently couldnt recognize one. I remember having a thought along the lines of "is she for real right now?"
LMFAO i had the same thing happen at a concert, i scared the shit out of them by hitting the stall door really hard because they were right up against it looking at me 😭 not enough to hit the kid but just to freak them out
I’ve heard the bathroom stall cracks are for like medical emergencies. Otherwise someone could literally die on the toilet and no one would know for a while. Dunno how accurate it is or if it makes a difference but that’s what I’ve always heard anytime the stall crack issue is brought up
The pet dogs and emotional support animals in public have gotten really out of control. So many people claim that they're service dogs when they are not, and establishments are so afraid of being accused of discrimination and of the people throwing tantrums that they don't even bother enforcing no pet rules. Other than being allowed to live in pet free apartments emotional support animals have no more rights than any other pet. Service dogs have to go through intensive training, and be completely obedient and well behaved when working. A real Service dog would never wander away from their handler or go snooping into something else or approach anyone else in public.
i couldn't agree more and tbh we drove across America and literally there was nothing but fast food chains ...personally i found most of the food terrible until we got to New York then it was just awesome
i went to europe to visit a friend and i was so shocked that the bathroom stalls were basically like a room with a toilet… there was 100% privacy and i was so amazed by it
Dawg the bathroom cracks at my school are so big, my friend was in the stall and I was looking in the mirror fixing my outfit and I could literally see her shitting on the toilet, and then she waved at me, I waved back, and we moved on with our day.
That's why I hate it even more when the sink mirrors are directly facing the gaping stalls. It's not as bad when the stalls are in a separate area bc people are less likely to be standing around there loligagging and they don't have huge mirrors to force people to keep looking at those damn stalls. Your eye veers off your reflection and and next thing you know you see some private business going on. Plus, when I'm at those sinks, I feel like a peeping tom so I wash up and run!
I was in Germany for three months last year and as an American, noticed right away that out in public, everyone dressed nice. (American version, which basically means you’re wearing jeans). I really liked that because I never wear athleisure wear ever, so I finally felt normal lol. The cultural differences of European countries and the U.S. are crazy, especially because I always thought they’d be super similar until I visited Europe.
This is so fun and interesting, because as a Swede going to Germany, I can't remember I thought they dressed any special. But only in Sweden, here in my small town I feel over dressed (casual) and going to Stockholm I feel like garbage 😅 So I have a fancier dresscode (wich I love) going to Stockholm or Uppsala or doing something. But going around in my small town I feel I must dress down to fit in, but would never go as far as many, I mean baggy sweat pants... I feel under dressed in Jean, a puffer jacket and sneakers but casual enough to not feel like I am a princess or something.
But why would you think America is similar at all? Lol it’s amazing how being raised here you think the rest of the world is the same. Think about it. No wonder entitlement doesn’t leave
@@hinatababe97 Everybody experiences this--if you grow up somewhere and aren't exposed to other cultures, your home culture is the "default" of how the world is. It's not specific to the U.S.
I love fashion, and when I travel ( which is not very often), I like to buy a few items of clothing of the current styles of that country. I haven't been to Europe in ages, but I suspect that people there don't wear pajama pants and crocs with dirty socks.
@@ms.pirate bruh if someone is taking pictures of u in the bathroom report them to con staff, it's not uncommon for people who are crossplaying at cons to use the women's bathroom because a lot of people are scared men are gonna do something to them, it's really not common however for anyone to be taking pictures of you in the bathroom
@@butasimpleidiotwizard lol I think your phone autocorrected “cosplaying” wrong but yeah you’re right gender has nothing to do with people being creeps and they should get reported regardless 💀
There was one time when I was using the bathroom in a supermarket and made direct contact with the custodian who was trying to clean through the stall crack. She goes "my bad G, please continue" and waved before walking out. To this day I still think about it.
Yeah the bathroom cracks have always irritated me. One time a little kid just stood staring. Dude go with your mom! I understood struggle taking your male kid in bathroom w/u but take him in your stall & turn his azz around & not leave him out to stall around the cracks!!
I can’t tell you how many times some mothers little boy (even little girls few times) tried crawling into my stall or opening it or straight up opened it or peeked through, or threw something, it happened even as a kid myself and I had push a kid away which is so scary, seriously parents need watch their kids
@@svetlana4310 it’s not really, at least in cities… a lot of restaurants have to-go options as well, so they’ve got the necessary boxes and bags (at least in Portugal)
@@nonignorantsatis Lol... ok. I was just making additional comments on big American portion sizes. Also, in some countries it's not as common. That's all.
man this is so real. i visited from england last summer and the biggest shock for me would probably be the way everyone greeted each other and waved at you. i loved that so much
@@Mr_CreamBean I guess we can see the footwear from enough far. I have even given some tissue paper to somebody who ran out of them at her stall. I don't think I peeked or saw anything.
@@veenaramakrishna7808 like I try to, I never wanted to see anything, but I still gotta look at the stall and sometimes I accidentally see a bit of the person. I swear I’m not like looking for anything but it’s still weird af
That happened to me! Some lady brought her five year old into the bathroom and when she was taking care of business, he crawled under the door and peaked through the crack of all the stalls. I was about 10 at the time and at 22, I’m still traumatized
I lived in West Africa for three years. When I came back to the United States I remember the shock of standing on the cereal aisle and trying to make up my mind what I was going to take home to my kids!
Yes all of this! As an American living in the UK for 7 years now I found the styrofoam containers, plastic straws, and cutlery being so widely available really stood out to me when I went back to Ohio recently!
What you're describing would be a culture shock to me 😂 Here in France they're banning one-use stuff from fast-food places and plastic boxes are slowly turning to cardboard boxes for detergent pods for example. McDonald's now uses washable plastic cups and baskets in restaurants and other fast-food places are supposed to do the same. Also plastic Q-tips are definitely banned it's now paper!
I feel like the thing that gets glossed over with foreigners when they go to restaurants in the States is that nobody really expects you to eat all that food. There is a reason why we're so good about letting you take food home. Do I have any idea why it's that way? No, but if it means I don't have to cook for another night, I'm not complaining.
exactly I love it, as an american in japan the portions are usually finishable but some places give so much food + I can't take it home but it's also kinda rude to leave food behind I can't win fr usually non japanese owned places are chill tho
Wait, there are places that don’t let you take food home?? I’m from South Africa and I’ve never been to a food service place or restaurant here that hasn’t let me take the food I paid for home if I didn’t finish it
@@jocelyn_andrea I believe it's generally pretty rare to take home food in Europe. I've heard mixed things about Asia, but I don't know a thing about other continents. Whether or not restaurants would allow you to is up for debate, but there are certainly places where it's not a cultural norm.
@@orbitaldumpsterfire oh okay I see. Well here it’s also completely normal to take home food if you didn’t finish. Although I don’t believe it will ever amount to being another whole meal
In a bathroom at a sports arena these sisters (or friends idk) were arguing “no ain’t watching ya baby” “neither am I” They had put their maybe 6 month old baby on the filthy bathroom floor. How do I know? Because suddenly I see a baby under my stall door. Just stared at me until one of them finished up and dragged the baby out by her legs. This was years ago and I still think about that baby crawling under the stall door. Dear bathroom floor baby, I hope you’re okay because you clearly have an unfit mother.
Ew this connects a lot with the disgust towards any scene involving touching bathroom floors with more than shoe soles, I don't get why people don't complain about this lmao. Anyway, poor kiddo being all filthy
regarding filthy floors and babies... that kid will have an amazing immune system from that experience. i used to eat stuff from the floor because i was weird. i never get sick!
I was shocked by the portion sizes when I moved recently to the US from England. My mom had to explain to me that in America you’re expected to take some of it home as leftovers, most restaurants have boxes and bags for you to take your food with you in. That was probably the biggest culture shock for me That and the lizards
Now I’ve never been anywhere else, but how is it done elsewhere? Do they swipe your card at your seat? Or you just have to take your bill to the front to pay?
@@angelbaby0601 usually you can do both. Depends on the restaurant. But your card will have a pin code and it shouldn’t work without you entering it. So they can’t swipe without you.
About 16 years ago an ex-boyfriend of mine went to lunch with a group of friends. They each paid separately, but gave their respective cards to the waiter, who went to ring them up. Within one hour 7 industrial sewing machines were chargeded to his card in South America! I NEVER let my card separate from me in a restaurant or especially bar....it only takes a minute to go to the cashier!
Those cracks in the door in public toilets are BIG. I felt so exposed. I was only 16 when I visited the US, and it was a big culture shock to make eye contact in the mirror with the person washing there hands 😮
I’m from the US but grew up around the world and I had like 5-6 years of postings at less developed countries where milk and bread weren’t always guaranteed in the supermarket and walls were set up around peoples houses. Coming back to the US to see family was so strange because you could just walk up to anyone’s house and then there was a whole isle in the supermarket dedicated to bread and dairy products. It’s crazy. Still blows my mind today
I grew up in UK and Europe and I never understood why Americans don't have fences or walls around their front gardens... Just... anyone can just walk on it and dogs can shit all over it. So weird.
When I was in kindergarten a girl in my grade literally crawled under the door of my stall and looked at me before crawling away. I’m still traumatized Edit : the girls name was olivia and I assure it probably wasn’t any of you
At church, 2 girls peaked through my stall and laughed and stared. It still is very traumatizing and at the time I was very self conscious, shy, anti social, quiet, etc. I was very young and felt violated and scared. Ugh 😑
We had 2 foreign exchange students, one from Thailand and the other from Italy. The Italian couldn't believe we lived so far from stores that we had to drive everywhere. She said everything was in walking distance. Girl from Thailand couldn't believe that cell phones were so cheap here.
in brazil we also drive everywhere. i just came back from europe and omg you can do anything walking or by bike. i see more cars here in one day than i saw there in 14 lol
@@Luisa20102011 I am Brazilian and we drive to a lot of places but like, the US is on a whole different level. The place where I lived in Tennessee didn't even have sidewalks in the residential area, like what- Most places I lived in Brasil I could get to a supermarket with at max a 30-minute walk, and sometimes there was a bakery nearer. Also, I could always walk to school in Brazil, but in the US in both Florida and Tennessee where I lived it was just too far.
I am in Rome and I don't even need to have a car. In about 1000 mt I have: three grocery stores, a gym, three pizzeria, two cool bar for aperitivo, a park, a post office, two banks (one is mine), the shop main street, a cinema and each school from kindergarten to university. I can litterally live in this 1000 mt. Of course you took the car to change places, to travel and all, but for routine life you have everything. It's like this in mostly of Italian cities because we are small and densily populated, I guess. USA has those biiig distances.
it is nightmarish. there's a huge crack in the bottom so you can crawl out if there is an emergency. one time in school I was just trying to take a piss then a little girl crawled underneath the crack and stood in the stall with me. I DIDNT KNOW HER. I FREAKED OUT
@@beandal8493 I am more cautious now since I'm still at that school. I only go to the hs bathrooms since my school is K-12. sometimes kids are in there but it's not as common. and I only go during class periods bc it's scary to be in there when 20 kids are in there opposed to 1 or 2..usa is amaaazzziiinnnggg
Dude when I went to Europe I was so amazed at how private public bathrooms were. Even at a bus stop the door went down to the floor. I’ve always hated how open public bathrooms are. Some don’t even have doors in the public parks! 😢
@@terri3715 I think they were speaking of the doors of the toilets at bus stop/gaz station, not a bus stop with doors. They do exist, but only in area who either get a lot of snow and rain, or where long wait is common. I know I saw some in Norway.
It's the reverse for me. I live in Indonesia (Asia). Almost every public stall have a "normal" door, like doors for houses. They went down to the floor. The first time I saw bathroom stall in US movie, I was shocked. Like how the hell you supposed to "open" your privacy in that kind of place.
I remember it being embarrassing to take food home with you when I lived overseas 😂 I’ll never forget when I asked for a to-go box when I was living in Lebanon and they looked at me like I was crazy 😭
I remember when they took my card at a restaurant, I panicked and went on my phone to block it temporarily. They came back asking for a pin. I just asked if i could follow. Anyway it took 20 min to pay.
yes honey - I put a pin code on my card just so I could tell a total stranger who isn't even letting me see which numbers they punched in the freaking register. sure.
But you took your card out and probably even gestured to hand it to them or you left it on the table which I feel like common sense would signify in any country that that means you would like to pay for the bill, otherwise they probably wouldn’t have taken it. The idea of not paying at your table or up at the front is so crazy to non-US citizens but it’s not even really that crazy of a thing? it’s expensive and inconvenient to have a machine at tables or brought to them and it’s expensive to have someone do that solely as their job. We didn’t find it weird before technology existed? So i take your card to my computer and check you out while you stay sat at your table. Fraud is sooo rare in this aspect
@@awesxmeasfxck I live in Australia, and literally every business has a mobile eftpos machine now. Like, petrol stations have them ffs, to say it’s “too expensive” Is disingenuous and to argue “that’s the way it’s always been done” is always a poor argument
@@awesxmeasfxck literally every restaurant here has a mobile one they bring to you, or you walk up and pay at the counter. It was just a weird experience for me given it’s literally the first time I ever experienced it
@@JeremyVTS A lot of the restaurants have them now, especially since you can set up an account and reader to work with a smartphone or tablet, so it's not like it's expensive specialized POS hardware, like it used to be. Pretty soon the US will be no different in that regard.
Not just the cracks in the stalls but the little spaces they put at the bottom like its not even a whole door. I remember in Elementary kids would climb into my stall while im peeing like leave me alone 😭
As someone from the US, this is really true. Athletic clothes are worn as casual wear pretty often. Children are even in athletic clothes about half the time here.
yeah one time in school I was just trying to take a piss then a little girl crawled underneath the crack and stood in the stall with me. I DIDNT KNOW HER. I FREAKED OUT
As an Australian who now lives in America. The shops are weird, the power outlets are weird, the roads are super thin, the shower is now awkward and you cant trust anyone anymore.
Yes, because only in America are you likely to encounter untrustworthy people. As for the showers (??) - not sure how it can be so "awkward" - unless you're talking about prison showers.
Tbh I live in the states and that's what I I sometimes do i just go walk around at the grocery stores even if i don't buy anything it's just relaxing to look at the aisles
@@lunarguidance3723 In my country you walk up to a counter (usually next to the door) and pay for your food. We also use the scanners, though they aren't portable
What about before portable scanners? I mean, if you had them in Europe or Asia before the US, they still have to be newer than using credit cards at restaurants? I am under 40 and in my life time worked at restaurants that had one phone line and couldn't take phone calls while a card was being run, and had the old school impression/carbon paper press things for when the system went down and the manager would process the slips manually when it was back up.
@Lunar Guidance 37 We just walk up to the counter and pay after we're done eating. We only see our servers when they take our order, give us our food, and take payment. It's nice not to be disturbed every 2 minutes like in the US.
Portions are also larger because they expect you to take some home. Personally, I love being able to bring half of my meal home so I can enjoy it later
it is nightmarish. there's a huge crack in the bottom so you can crawl out if there is an emergency. one time in school I was just trying to take a piss then a little girl crawled underneath the crack and stood in the stall with me. I DIDNT KNOW HER. I FREAKED OUT
Reading these comments i have decided that i will if i ever go to america take with me or buy one of those absurdly long rulers and if someone stares just...jab at them with the ruler through the gap while making weird gollum noisesXD
hilarious story, my mum is from england and when her brother visited they went out to lunch for sandwiches. when his arrived first, he pushed it in to the center, and everyone was like wyd? he thought his sandwich was the group meal. he was so shocked as more food OF THAT PROPORTION was brought out for everyoneee😂
This is funny but at the same time, how do you share a sandwich? You can cut it in half but after that if you cut it in smaller pieces everything will just fall out. Also, how would you make a “regular” sized sandwich in the UK then? Are the bread slices smaller over there?
I remember the shock of returning after a year in Scotland. And after years of living in a city and shopping at smaller stores, big grocery stores are definitely overwhelming!
I’m from the US, but doing grad school in Ireland. The two that immediately come to mind about being back in the US for break are that we walk on different sides of the sidewalk, and that chicken thighs are *huge* here lol
I read this story of a girl who was peeing and some chick was staring into the stall so she gave her the finger and the girl staring had the AUDACITY to tell her she doesn’t have to be rude and stormed out shdjsufkshskansisnf 😭😭😭 💀
That’s why you carry around a small spray bottle with dye in it, water isn’t enough, gotta stain their face for a bit so they can learn the lesson. Having a blue dye stained face is already a giveaway that you probably did something bad (cuz dye bombs) but imagine having to walk in public with your face looking like that. Oooooor you could just pepper spray them, they wouldn’t be able to see you through those cracks while you’re in there, that’s for sure.
@@BB-TheCandleFairy i take it that you've never pepper sprayed someone. It lingers. If you point pepper spray in an enclosed area, at a stall gap, you will 100% spray yourself too.
Honestly, the thing that most reminded me of my home state of Texas when I was living in the UK was Tesco. It wasn't as big as a US supermarket, but the design and layout was very familiar.
@Claire Munroe I don't think that's always true. I used to live in the UK and in my experience the higher end restaurants take your card and bring it back to you. Especially in London.
As Italian who spent months in USA I totally related to the gym clothes 😂 I used to wear them all the time and I still use them here in Italy (not going in the gym obv)
I feel this!! You know the reverse culture shock hits hard when you break down crying in the cereal aisle from being overwhelmed... like WHY IS THEY AN ENTIRE AISLE JUST FOR CEREAL??? 😂
I love athleisure wear, it’s so convenient. I can go to yoga at noon, go straight to the grocery store at 2, take my dog for a walk at 3, and go to the mall at 4 and never have to worry about being under/over dressed lol
I lived overseas until I was 3 and half years old. When we moved to the States, that was my first time going into a department store. My mom says I had fun playing in the clothes racks because it was such a new experience for me. My grandmother, however, was not amused.
The bathroom cracks I can relate to as a natural born American. When we went to Ireland and actually had privacy, I was in love. The supermarkets are actually something I’m proud of though I can understand the shock.
@@ronnie7848 They also swipe it, but there's generally only one or very few point of sale machines. They can't just bring the entire computer to every single table. I don't know what else you'd think they'd be doing.
@@wmhfv992 usually we have mobile machines. So it's easy to bring the machine to you to swipe (use your password because that's a thing in my country) then they give you a copy of the receipt that's printed instantly by the terminal machine.
Biggest I seen were actually in France. You could almost arrive naked, and leave with a new car full of groceries, clothes, jewellery, your next holiday planned, and all of it fully insured... on the spot. And easy to get lost in the whole shop. Not to mention the other stores around it, in the mall...
I was in the bathroom one time and somebody's child came crawling under the door "hello, what are you doing in here?" Their mom grabbed them by the leg and pulled them out. 🤣🤣
I hate u.s bathroom stall heights too- tho once in high school, someone brought their service dog in with them, and I only knew it because there was suddenly a GIANT white lab head poking under my stall and honestly my bad buddy it’s not your fault you’re too big for these stalls 😂
At least it was only a dog and not an entire child. Lol! 😂 I have 2 kids so I was as understanding as I could possibly be… But a little boy (maybe 2.5 y/o) was in the stall next to me with his Mom. While she was actually using the facilities, he climbed under and straight into my stall. Thank goodness I had flushed and only had to button my jeans before grabbing my purse & leading the little boy out of the stall. I don’t think his Mom could have apologized more than she did. I would have been super upset with my own kids, but I just laughed it off and tried to made her smile/not feel so bad. I said something like “this will be a favorite story to tell and embarrass him in front of any future girlfriends”!😆🤣
Pretty sure they started to charge for plastic bags in California as an effort to get people to reuse plastic bags or switch to cloth grocery bags. They made it a financial nuisance to be wasteful with plastic grocery bags. A not so effective approach to reduce, reuse, recycle. And I said it in the wrong order on purpose to emphasize priority.
Supermarkets are so bright too. Like all the packaging. I lived in Spain for half a year and came back and almost had a breakdown the first time I had to grocery because I was overwhelmed by all the conflicting colors and everything trying to grab my attention.
Simple, ventilation, and easy access for emergency teams, bathrooms had a ridiculous number of people in danger of a health risk, it’s a bathroom and people go to the bathroom when feeling sick.
@@PastPositive for ventalation put a vent in there, emergency teams are trained to get in doors even if they arent held closed by a flimsy little lock, if people go there feeling sick then aint nobody wants to smell them
OUUUUUUUUU GIRL and don't let you have to pee outside and be wearing a romper😂 public bathrooms are like a new season of Naked and Afraid but it's just you
When i first visited the US i cried in a Walmart jam aisle because i was sleep deprived and there were too many options. I just wanted something to make pb&js and didn't know what the flavor difference between boysenberry, blueberry, marionberry, and black raspberry were!
When I was going to a restaurant for the first time when the waiter walked away I thought they were going to rob us bc they had walked away with my moms card😂🤣
@@rumplestiltskin8838 not ~every~ public restroom but nearly every public restroom. the only fully-closed restrooms ive seen in my town are family-bathrooms
Some say she's still wondering the aisles of that supermarket to this day. The memories of what she went there for long forgotten. Her path through the endless maze unknown.
All true... This is my Scandinavian mother in law. After a decade and a half with hubby I prefer smaller portions, more private bathroom stalls, less sweet desserts, I cook with cream, dessert is in the afternoon between meals with coffee not following a huge meal when you are already full.
Here in brazil the employees usually don't even touch your card, you're the one putting it in the machine and they charge everything in front of you If someone walked away with my card like that id straight up pass out
@Khan 04 idk i was mostly in Tromsø? At least compared to the South in the US ir was good 🤷♂️ most places either don't have an accessible bathroom at all, or it an almost the EXACT SAME stall with no difference. No ir only 1 rail, no seperaye bathroom at all, no cord, etc. Just exa6cky the sane but wider
@@amberhorsmanTrust me. Even though I’ve never been to Norway, I guarantee that any Norwegian bathroom is better than American ones. Your country is so beautiful and modern; and also probably has much less people that like to steal toilet paper or piss on the floor. I’m sure you’d have a heart attack if you looked at American gas station bathrooms 💀.
@@intreoo It's not known to me if it's typical that toilet paper gets stolen in the public bathrooms here, they are so thin that you have to use half a roll to wipe so not much to steal 😅 Accidents happen all the time but in most places the cleaners are asigned to that spesific buliding for their shift. Cleaning multiple times a day if needed (usually the toilets). Not all sinks are modernised, nor the soap dispensers or paper dispensers, or they don't work half the time or are empty 🤷♀️ And usually there is water all over the sinks, mirrors and floors because people have forgotten how washing hands works after the pandemic ended 🙈😂 Not saying that the cleaners do a bad job, just not everything gets the same priority or attention when cleaned🤷♀️
@@chelseamunroe fr like I know a few places have a little portable machine they just use at the table now but what did they do before those were a thing?
I live in Canada, and even though we’ve also adopted some of the same things that the US has (like big portion meals, and the bathroom stall large crack) the rest of these things surprised me! I definitely have noticed that the states have way more of a selection in stores than we do. And the paying after a meal thing was surprising too! I would have been like “Hey! Where are you going with my card?!” lol. We pay at the table. I think athletic-leisure wear is acceptable here too (not caught up with the fashion trends lol)
As a little girl I went on a swim trip with my class and another little girl crawled under the stall door to change with me. I was mortified! I’ve always been very conservative about showing skin. I have hated our bathroom stalls ever since 😂
@@KarunyaSabapathy that or they could take down my information and continue to steal money after I’m gone. So ya I guess it’s a fear of the waitstaff committing fraud of credit card theft
@@marsbar2067 i used to consider this in the past but internet purchases requiring your card details now require a one-time password that gets sent to your phone or email, so it’s really near impossible for a server to do that. also you can always cover up the three digits on the back of your card! if it’s tampered with, it’ll show on the sticker/ink you left on it
When i first move to the states, that was the first thing I noticed. It freaked me out so bad. I recently went back to visit in Peru, and felt so relieved that their cracks was nearly nonexistent. I appreciate the privacy lol.
@@AngryAlfonse yeah because it's easier to clean the bathrooms with stalls like this. I mean I'm a dude so I can only speak for the men's room but we don't actively try to peak at each other because homo.
What makes the bathroom stall cracks even worse is the fact that most bathrooms you can't tell if someone is in the stall or not so you have to walk up to it and check and then you make this weird awkward eye contact and swiftly turn away 😭
I like to order meals at restaurants that microwave well the next day. I usually get 2-3 meals out of every meal I order. It makes the cost of dining out worth it. I love large portions💕
Having such large meals and taking home leftovers is such a genius thing Americans do, your telling me I go to lunch, pay for one meal, and get so much I don't have to cook that night? Genius
@@snickers6125 idk even with the small portions in Europe I take leftovers home. Like we usually do not eat half of that 💀and after dining we like to walk. So very different cultures
It’s bc she feels overexposed, it’s not so much bc she thinks people can see her boobies… it’s a normal reaction to feeling like you’re being looked at when you don’t want to be
As an American, I can confirm that all of this is true. Many people will still change into something nicer when going to restaurants though, especially the nicer ones. Honestly, I’m more concerned with the broken locks on the stall doors and the stall doors that don’t close properly. Don’t worry, people don’t usually bend down to look at you through the bottom part, although some people do. You have to worry about people putting their phones in the cracks of the doors and near the divider areas of each stall.
