this week, a viral Reddit post showed that Europeans share every tone of the things they've seen while visiting America that caused them to think, "What the hell?!"
Here are probably the most amusing, darkest, and funniest reactions:
1. "Flags everywhere. Not just in front of people's homes, but in front of everything. I even saw a US flag in front of a supermarket. WTF."
—Enough Maintenance
2. "Tax not included in the price tag. It's...weird!"
—ales
3. "Perfect strangers asking me how I am doing."
—FakeRealist
4. "Free refills, my friend. Free refills."
—Yuval8356
5. "The ads in between TV shows felt unnecessarily long, and also repeated the same info over and over, just said differently."
—APerson629
6. "The political ads where they just SMEAR the fuck out of the opposition."
—darlo0161
7. "Ads for prescription medicines. Like what the actual fuck."
—Qbnaith
8. "Free water in any restaurant. FREEEE."
—zerd_opk
9. "Portion sizes, vehicle sizes, road sizes, house sizes."
—UsernameCensored
10. "Tipping being obligatory, whether it was good service or not."
—lauretta12345
11. "Tipping. What? You're going to log my card details and then when I leave I'm supposed to trust that you'll charge the amount I wrote down on a piece of paper? And I'm supposed to be fine with that?"
—P_OS
12. "The number of homeless people. People straight-up walking past an elderly woman living on the streets to get to the 7-Eleven."
—bighow
13. "I thought the gap in bathroom stall doors was a myth until I visited the US. I didn’t get privacy for my five-day stay. How do you shit when someone can look you in the eye?!"
—watercolorinc
14. "Extreme air conditioning — like fridge temperature inside."
—Grumpy_Yuppie
15. "The one thing I wasn’t expecting from the US is how polite 99% of the people I met were."
—Von_Bubb
16. "Almost all food tastes sweet, including bread."
—back-in-black
17. "The choices of cereal at the breakfast in the hotel all had at least 20% sugar."
—kwowo
18. "Movies set in New York prepare you for everything except the smell of shit."
—carbonar0
19. "Years ago, it used be striking how much violence was allowed on TV, while anything even remotely like sex was censored."
—frnoss
20. "The general weirdness surrounding alcohol. Us Brits went for a drink at lunchtime once and our American friends were referring us to AA."
—Jagermeister_UK