People Who Visited The US, What Is Your WTF AMERICA Story? (AskReddit)

people who have visited the US what is your WTF America story at least 30 huge women marching into a Walmart in a single-file line almost all of them with holstered handguns on their belts all of them went straight to the McDonald's never breaking formation never saying a word except to the cashier it was majestic like a squadron of fully armed Zeppelin floating by during ww2 this one isn't really negative but still amazes me I'm from Sweden and visited New York a few summers ago with my family we had just gotten off the bus and my stepsister was feeling really nausea strum the bus ride she walks up to a garbage can and takes a few deep breaths trying to not vomit suddenly a guy in a suit weather briefcase walks up asks if she's alright tells her to wait there and comes back a few seconds later with a bottle of water for her just a complete stranger that's not something you'd see in Sweden everyone was so nice why are all the meal portions so big the bathroom stall gap is real I'm going to fly to the u.s in a couple of weeks for the first time already had a WTF moment I had to fill out some personal stuff to get into the country questions like are you planning a genocide in the you sir yes or no are you planning a terroristic attack in the you sir yes so no I mean if someone really is planning something like that and succeed what then he lied to us how could he he said he won't do a genocide now look at that so being Indonesian world's largest Muslim country and mayo my dad always gets taken into a special room for interrogation every time we arrive at the US when I happen to be with him I got tired of waiting on my own so I went to one of the officers guarding the area and asked how long it would take for my dad to get out he went oh my god honey you're all alone and suddenly everyone was rushing to get my dad out as soon as possible kept asking me if there was anything I needed and kept telling me not to be scared obviously that made me actually nervous what the fuck is happening then I found out Americans just suck at telling nation ages and apparently I looked 8 to 12 they thought they made my dad leave a child all alone in a foreign country I was 16 one summer some friends and I rode tripped from Pennsylvania to you tour and back 10,000 kilometers in two weeks good times we are from Canada so we are pretty used to Americanisms however we found the stark contrast in billboards in the Bible Belt to be amusing every couple clicks it alternated between Jesus Saves confess your sins and xxx girls girls girls next exit seeing scripture on the back of transport trucks was pretty bizarre too and the aggressive preachers on the radio and the giant 50-foot crosses plural I mean it's called the Bible Belt for a reason but I didn't really appreciate the scope until I was there mine was on the flight home we just landed and I overheard the following exchange mom where are we Amsterdam it's in Germany when I was living in California back in the late nineties - 2000 the news came on and announced that one of the stories would be NATO starts bombing Kosovo I turned the news up only to have to sit through the more important story first out of season rain in LA I remember visiting Florida a few years back when I was young after getting lost on the weight of the house we would be staying at we and pulled into a shopping centre car park my father flagged down a sheriff driving a Ford pickup with a crew cab and began to ask him for directions the cop was sitting next to our minivan with the huge v8 still running and shaking the floor under us my dad said thanks for pulling over we are a bit lost and he said in a thick southern accent no problem sir my dad looked back and noticed there was about four cars sitting behind the cop not moving or honking their horns or anything and my dad said do you want to pull over so you aren't in the way of the cars and he just said no sir I'll always remember that it may not be a funny story but the calmness of the held up traffic in the totally straight face and demeanor of the sherry was one of my first experiences of merica and one I will always remember I was in Nick for New Year's Eve 2006 slash 0-7 a guy next to me overheard I was Australian and grabbed my hand and told me he was praying for me due to the loss of Steve I when someone near us overheard and also joined in so I an Australian atheist with little care for Steve and I win found myself in the midst of a small but very enthusiastic prayer circle I went to the US this summer to work for my uncle's company in LA for eight weeks I'm currently studying at University in the UK I decided to fly up to San Francisco to visit my cousin for the weekend and flew from lacs after my return flight I was about to exit the lacs American terminal when all the police around me got their guns out and started shouting about a shooter at the airport chaos erupted around me with people everywhere throwing their suitcases to the floor and screaming I had no idea what to do I had just bought a tea from Starbucks and I didn't really want to throw it on the floor and run about so I followed this stampede of people through the terminal I found a room to hide in with 20 other people we all lay on the floor being quiet trying to stay calm people all around me calling their loved one saying their goodbyes it was insane I didn't have any service on my AT & T phone so I just sat there drinking tea contemplating what I would do if a gunman appeared I realize now it was the most British thing to do at that moment we were in there for 25 minutes when we got told it was clear all of this happened because the police heard a loud noise and there was someone dressed as Zorro which raised suspicions WTF America posted this yesterday in a different thread I live in Michigan husband is from the UK his family and two best friends flew over for the wedding we had a combined stag night slash Bachelorette we all went out and partied pretty hard toward the end of the night we were at a small bar in my tiny town and the locals were treating our British companions like celebrities overheard a girl tell my husband who is black I didn't know they had your kind over there at Sea World I got out of the way to let a person in a motorized scooter behind me see into the tank they got up there and walked forward and took my place against the glass I was really confused I didn't understand that some non paralyzed people choose to use motorized scooters I have yet to see this in any other country moved to the US with my family in the mid-90s and started high school my junior year back home in Norway I had played basketball for a few years enjoyed it and thought I'd try out for the school team thinking it would be like home practice once or twice a week for an hour and a game against an for school once in a while yeah not so much quickly realized sports is a huge deal in the US I made JV there were a couple other J RS on the team so I didn't sweat it the first practice went on for two comma five hours and I was pretty nauseous after all the suicide running drills and numerous other exercises realizing I hadn't asked too many details beforehand I asked the team mate how often practice was and was promptly shocked to find out we had practice four times a week for two - two comma five hours plus two games per week and that was JV suffice to say the coming months were quite exhausting and didn't leave much time for anything else we did place first in our state though and I got whipped into shape pretty good so yeah new Americans don't mess around when it comes to sports here is the conversation I had with a cashier in a Dunkin Donuts in Ohio huh are you deaf you speak funny me hmm I have an accent I'm french-canadian huh what do you mean me well English is of my first language huh so you're not deaf because you speak really slowly and in a weird way me it's a French accent huh okay I understand okay it's a Canadian accent wit have a few I lived in the Midwest as a kid but I'm Australian I had a women who genuinely thought we took a bridge to get to America from Australia I had a teacher who would not let me into the classroom in the morning unless I said it Ingo still my baby I was in grade two and had no clue what it meant this same teacher would make me recite the Pledge of Allegiance my sister showed up on the first day of school to find the discipline corner was Australia with a badly drawn map that didn't include Tasmania because that was where the convicts go and lastly the many people children and adults asking me if we wrote kangaroos my dad lives in America and I visited him for the first time in ten years last September first thing he did was take me to the local police gun range where I was taught how to fire a fully automatic assault rifle a semi-automatic rifle and a variety of pistols they didn't even know my name and they put a gun in my hands and told me to shoot at a target best fucking day ever back in the 90s I was in San Francisco in Australia I had never seen a beggar but there were heaps of them in San Francisco anyway I was walking around and this beggar comes up to me shaking his can fill of coins in my face he never said a word just shook his can in my face so I said to him no thanks mate I've got enough coins of my own he gave me a look of WTF that is my WTF America story walking into a supermarket and seeing the endless cereal lanes in the amount you can choose from blew my mind also when I was working in a camp over a summer I was devastated to see that the people who ran the place would actually choose to use throwaway dishes cups and Cutler is instead of normal ones I don't know if that's typical but it sure hurt my eco protecting site to see all the waste just one day would generate had a good time though one summer when we visited some friends out in Tennessee and we are eating fresh deer he'd shot that afternoon off his BB Q drinking beer and sharing differences in culture at which point out of nowhere he pulls out a pellet gun and shoots a scale from the top of a faux line he then proceeded to cut wash clean and cook the sky roll tasted like chicken American are unreasonably nice roadtrip 15 years ago car breaks down on the freeway three cars stop one guy fixes my car one guy waters and subsequently pays for the part to fix the car and third guy his brother-in-law delivers it all in about thirty minutes then we all go out for dinner on th ey asterisk by me and my buddy dinner the guy who fixed our car ml's his cousin's in Colorado and week later we are having dinner and staying the night of their place I hear WT s stories about America but when I think of any of my WTF America stories I have had nothing but amazing experiences very boring one the menu bordered the cashier of a coffee shop said a black coffee costs two dollars 85 I got my change ready and when I ordered it the total came up to something like three dollars one X I was taken very aback by that and asked the cashier that price is before tax buddy WTF is the point of having a price menu when it's inaccurate then driving through town with an R on my lap to get some rounds for going out shooting in the woods my country just this year allowed to buy folding knives that you can open with one hand after many years of complete ban and yes I ordered the one that I wanted since I was a kid despite not needing it when we visited Las Vegas we shared hotel with a fat activist conference one of the ladies argued with management about getting a floor level room since she could not fit into the elevator I honestly didn't think people could be that size pleasingly surprised about beer quality though you hear so mny bad things about american beer she held back on the sugar and the beers like everything else some of mine were WTF why is there so much land everywhere WTF why is everyone's house so big WTF why are the roads so big explains why the cars are so big WTF why is fuel gas so cheap WTF why are strangers talking to me WTF why is fruit so expensive WTF how can I get this much meat in a meal and it still cost less than ten dollars WTF why am I getting I did carded everywhere WTF no to another person I'm not Australian I'm English dammit

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Length: 13min 38sec (818 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 18 2019