Thereâs quite a few that donât 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, Iâve been known to press(since Iâve got it ready), the loudest, ear splitting, obnoxious alarm for drawing attention. Believe me when I say I donât care whoever else it scares. Absolutely not one person is ready to hear that.
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 đ not enough to hit the kid but just to freak them out
Iâve 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 thatâs what Iâve always heard anytime the stall crack issue is brought up
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.
â@@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 đ
@@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 Iâm not like looking for anything but itâs still weird af
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.
@@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.
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
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 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 youâre 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 theyâd 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 đ 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 itâs amazing how being raised here you think the rest of the world is the same. Think about it. No wonder entitlement doesnât leave
â@@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.
@@svetlana4310 itâs not really, at least in cities⊠a lot of restaurants have to-go options as well, so theyâve 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.
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 never realized how much we trust waiters with our card info until some one from another country pointed it out in a video similar to this one đ đ
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.
@@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 âcosplayingâ wrong but yeah youâre right gender has nothing to do with people being creeps and they should get reported regardless đ
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
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!
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 canât 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
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, Iâm still traumatized
That happened to me once, and I asked âarenât you old enough to be able to using the boyâs bathroom?â His mom got mad, but youâre raising a perv
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 đ 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 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.
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 donât let you take food home?? Iâm from South Africa and Iâve never been to a food service place or restaurant here that hasnât let me take the food I paid for home if I didnât 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 itâs also completely normal to take home food if you didnât finish. Although I donât believe it will ever amount to being another whole meal
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 đź
I remember it being embarrassing to take food home with you when I lived overseas đ Iâll 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 đ
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
Now Iâve 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 shouldnât work without you entering it. So they canât 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!
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.
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
â@@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.
In a bathroom at a sports arena these sisters (or friends idk) were arguing âno ainât watching ya babyâ âneither am Iâ 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 youâre 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 youâre 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
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
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. Iâve always hated how open public bathrooms are. Some donât even have doors in the public parks! đą
@@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.
Oh ya I have another best part about the bathroom stall cracks.. is when you decide to wear a romper, overalls, etc. No privacy. (â ă»â -â ă»â ;â )â ă
Iâm 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 werenât 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 anyoneâs house and then there was a whole isle in the supermarket dedicated to bread and dairy products. Itâs 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.
ââ@@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.
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 wouldnât have taken it. The idea of not paying at your table or up at the front is so crazy to non-US citizens but itâs not even really that crazy of a thing? itâs expensive and inconvenient to have a machine at tables or brought to them and itâs expensive to have someone do that solely as their job. We didnât 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
@@haileycompton6852 I live in Australia, and literally every business has a mobile eftpos machine now. Like, petrol stations have them ffs, to say itâs âtoo expensiveâ Is disingenuous and to argue âthatâs the way itâs always been doneâ is always a poor argument
@@haileycompton6852 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 itâs 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.
As Italian who spent months in USA I totally related to the gym clothes đ I used to wear them all the time and I still use them here in Italy (not going in the gym obv)
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 đ
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
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.
Iâm 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
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 everyoneeeđ
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 âregularâ sized sandwich in the UK then? Are the bread slices smaller over there?
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.
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
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. Iâm still traumatized Edit : the girls name was olivia and I assure it probably wasnât 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 đ
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 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 doesnât have to be rude and stormed out shdjsufkshskansisnf đđđ đ
Thatâs why you carry around a small spray bottle with dye in it, water isnât 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 wouldnât be able to see you through those cracks while youâre in there, thatâs 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.
@@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.
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. đ€Łđ€Ł
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??? đ
â@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.
I live in Canada, and even though weâve 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 âHey! Where are you going with my card?!â lol. We pay at the table. I think athletic-leisure wear is acceptable here too (not caught up with the fashion trends lol)
Itâs crazy because the athleisurewear thing is so true! Like wearing workout sweats with a cute top and some sneakers is super duper normal for međ
I love athleisure wear, itâs 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
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.
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...
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 Iâm proud of though I can understand the shock.
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.
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 itâs not your fault youâre too big for these stalls đ
At least it was only a dog and not an entire child. Lol! đ 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 donât 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 âthis will be a favorite story to tell and embarrass him in front of any future girlfriendsâ!đđ€Ł
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.
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.
@@rumplestiltskin8838 not ~every~ public restroom but nearly every public restroom. the only fully-closed restrooms ive seen in my town are family-bathrooms
OUUUUUUUUU GIRL and don't let you have to pee outside and be wearing a romperđ public bathrooms are like a new season of Naked and Afraid but it's just you
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 đ
Simple, ventilation, and easy access for emergency teams, bathrooms had a ridiculous number of people in danger of a health risk, itâs 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
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.
@@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?
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! Iâve always been very conservative about showing skin. I have hated our bathroom stalls ever since đ
@Khan 04 idk i was mostly in TromsĂž? At least compared to the South in the US ir was good đ€·ââïž 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 Iâve 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. Iâm sure youâd have a heart attack if you looked at American gas station bathrooms đ.
@@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 đ 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 đ€·ââïž And usually there is water all over the sinks, mirrors and floors because people have forgotten how washing hands works after the pandemic ended đđ Not saying that the cleaners do a bad job, just not everything gets the same priority or attention when cleanedđ€·ââïž
the card thing stresses me out so much, when iâm there is always ask for the machine to do it myself and they would seem shocked. bro iâm not giving you my credit card to walk away with tf
Iâm other countries do all restaurants big and small have the ability to run cards right at the table? Fancy restaurants to casual eateries? I had no idea!
@@DS-wo5hd in canada where i am, yes, they bring the debit machine and a printed bill to the table and you pay yourself. in stores and such the machine is in front of you, never been an issue.
yâall!! try to keep a jacket in the car as often as you can. when it comes to having no option but the public bathroom, take the jacket and hang the hood on the top corner before you lock it. it will stay up and block the crack so other people wonât see you. it has saved me so many times!!
@@KarunyaSabapathy that or they could take down my information and continue to steal money after Iâm gone. So ya I guess itâs 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 itâs 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 itâs tampered with, itâll show on the sticker/ink you left on it
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 portionsđ
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
â@@snickers6125 idk even with the small portions in Europe I take leftovers home. Like we usually do not eat half of that đand after dining we like to walk. So very different cultures
Donât worry, the bathroom stall cracks bother us too
Lol
I'm sure she is "sooooo worried" hahah
That was a culture shock for me too, I felt like an animal using those stalls. Like a horse in a barn haha
Yah I just hang a coat or jacket on the hooks that they put on the doors and it covers it
Thereâs quite a few that donât 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, Iâve been known to press(since Iâve got it ready), the loudest, ear splitting, obnoxious alarm for drawing attention. Believe me when I say I donât care whoever else it scares. Absolutely not one person is ready to hear that.
I mean⊠she is American
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.
@@nikki1400 and curious. but it's important to teach them manners and how to respect privacy
@@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 đ not enough to hit the kid but just to freak them out
Iâve 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 thatâs what Iâve always heard anytime the stall crack issue is brought up
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.
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â@@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
You don't look in the stall, you look under the stall for feet đđŹ
@@deehines5750 I learned that the hard way đ
just tap on the door to see if someone's in there dont look bro đđđ
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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 đ
Agh itâs the most awkward thing just accidentally seeing someone doing their business when looking for an available stall đ
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Just look for footwear at the bottom. You if the stall is free or not.
@@veenaramakrishna7808 What if they see your eyes just peaking at their feet...
@@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 Iâm not like looking for anything but itâs still weird af
I was using a public restroom and literally a whole German Shepherd just crawls into my stall đđ why is there no privacyyy
lol nawwwww that ainât right
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.
It was a dog đ ur acting like the owner stuck their head in đ
I would be totally ok with that lol. Better a cute dog than a human.
Iâd be so happy though đ
Yeah when I came to Korea, (still here) I was shocked to see that the bathroom stalls didnât have cracks. Just hidden cameras đ
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oof yea i feel u
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Seriously? đź
âAll this is for me?â Yeah girl, you gon take home 3 days worth of leftovers and never eat em too lol
I came back from England and got so overwhelmed by how big a Target was that I cried in the cereal aisle đ
I have lived in USA my entire life and everytime I go to a store I have to breathe careful and calm down đ€Ł LOL it's so overwhelming
@@notbeingsarcastic5947 there are literally so many CHOICES. We could do with 30% fewer options, really.
@@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.
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
The US has some of those too. Basically the family restrooms are like that.
I'm starting to wonder who the creepy fuck in america that makes doors with gaps is
The US has plenty of single bathrooms đ I try to only use those kind of bathrooms when I'm out. I know where all the good ones are
They mean a row of stalls that are rooms with doors that go to the floor
How the heck does a public bathroom in the us look like then
âThereâs just so much of everythingâ is really the best way to define USA
Including blubber on people to reflect the âtoo much of everything â!
@@Deedeevenicethe British are fatter
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 think US is overrated đ terrible healthcare, unhealthy processed foodâŠ.. the list goes on
â@@Kenzie_McIntyre America is still richer and more developed than any of your European countries. Lol.
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 youâre 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 theyâd 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 đ 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 itâs amazing how being raised here you think the rest of the world is the same. Think about it. No wonder entitlement doesnât leave
As a half russian i feel like russians are overdressed and im sorry but i have no words for the "style" of germans đ
â@@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.
You get a "box" and take the rest of the food home for lunch the next day đ Most of us can't finish the huge portions either.
Leftovers are the best!
Everyone gets food "to go" when they haven't finished it in a restaurant, that's not a U.S. thing...
@@nonignorantsatis actually itâs rare to do it in Europe. Taking food home is unusual
@@svetlana4310 itâs not really, at least in cities⊠a lot of restaurants have to-go options as well, so theyâve 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.
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!
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Lmfaoo I'm cryingg-
I never realized how much we trust waiters with our card info until some one from another country pointed it out in a video similar to this one đ đ
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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.
My nightmare
I remember my dad visiting me in the US and taking me out for dinner, and when the waiter walked away with his card he ran after them đ
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It's weird af lol
Lol... nz is a mix, either they walk away with your card, bring the till to you, or you go to the till đ
@OwO ok i will
That was actually quite a small bathroom stall crack, in my experience lmao
You call that small?
@@ms.pirate its just awkward bc what if ur wiping or changing ur pad/tampon, everyone can see
@@ms.pirate As if only men were creeps. Just build separate private stalls.
@@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 âcosplayingâ wrong but yeah youâre right gender has nothing to do with people being creeps and they should get reported regardless đ
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
Lol I feel that just by visiting other states.
Only down south. And never in New England
But what did u eat in England?
Not in London 100%.
@@SamS.7598 true haha im from london
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!
Captain crunch
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!!
One time a little girl stuck head under it and said âdo I know you from somewhere?â đđđ
@@Zoefulgh oh my godđâ
@@Zoefulgh ayo wtf
that's wierd
I canât 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
"the cracks are so big"
*someone's unsupervised boy proceeds to peek in* đđđ
Oh no đšđ
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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, Iâm still traumatized
A little boy did that to me and I roared so loud he started crying and when i came out he was standing in the corner of the bathroom đ
That happened to me once, and I asked âarenât you old enough to be able to using the boyâs bathroom?â His mom got mad, but youâre raising a perv
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 đ 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!
OHIO
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.
I would never gove someone my pin
20 MINUTES? asked for pin? Wow, this is really strangeđš
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.
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.
Yea. I'm like are they actually trying to eat it all? I know I eat a lot but 9 times out of 10 I still have food to go.
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 donât let you take food home?? Iâm from South Africa and Iâve never been to a food service place or restaurant here that hasnât let me take the food I paid for home if I didnât 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 itâs also completely normal to take home food if you didnât finish. Although I donât believe it will ever amount to being another whole meal
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 đź
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THE EMOJI IS THE FINAL TOUCH IM DYINGG
Imagine growing up there I refused to use the public restroom as a kid
I WOULD CRY đ
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I felt the bathroom one.
I've lived in Japan for 3 years came back to the US and forgot how dirty and open the stalls were.
I remember it being embarrassing to take food home with you when I lived overseas đ Iâll 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 đ
American public bathrooms are like those in my nightmares. I couldn't believe they were something real. I truly thought it was me and my nightmares
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
@@death9854 O_o I would be scared to go to the toilet if this happened to me đ„Č
@@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
This is why some of us are so against letting biological men into the womanâs bathroom. Itâs already bad enough in there đ
â@@LilFrg mf just make good bathrooms and let trans women alone smh
The âwalks away with your credit cardâ thing gave me so much anxiety too.
Now Iâve 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 shouldnât work without you entering it. So they canât 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!
@@valerie4245 đłđł I never had it happen to me, so I guess I never thought about it before. Definitely an eye opener.
@@KAST96 that makes a lot of sense. I really thought that was exclusive to debit cards. I didnât know they had that for credit cards too.
Even if you live in the US we can all relate to the bathroom stalls/large serving sizes
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.
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
â@@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.
â@@camilascatonebedin3002 yeah you have to be in a city here
How much are cell phones in Thailand?
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.
In a bathroom at a sports arena these sisters (or friends idk) were arguing âno ainât watching ya babyâ âneither am Iâ
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 youâre okay because you clearly have an unfit mother.
Wtf-
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
Thatâs sad actually, that baby couldâve gotten kidnapped and they wouldnât have realized till 15 minutes later.
she picked you as her new mom!
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 youâre 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
No
Most ppl eat it all
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
I honestly like the food more after it spent some time in the fridge
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. Iâve always hated how open public bathrooms are. Some donât even have doors in the public parks! đą
Where in Europe? Each European country is different and none that i have been in ever had doors to the bus stop.
@@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.
Did they steal the doors at the park??
@@terri3715 I assume he meant bus station.
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.
The best part about those bathroom stall cracks is making EYE CONTACT with someone who is checking to see if the stall is vacant. >_>
If that happened to me, I think that would stop me being able to go for a week
I LAUGHES OUT LOUD
fr and when theres no one in them the doors hang open so idk why people do that
Oh ya I have another best part about the bathroom stall cracks.. is when you decide to wear a romper, overalls, etc. No privacy. (â ă»â -â ă»â ;â )â ă
Oh man, knock or look at the floor for shoes
You're right but I miss my HUGE Supermarkets that Have Everything besides Pasta!!!!!đą
Iâm 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 werenât 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 anyoneâs house and then there was a whole isle in the supermarket dedicated to bread and dairy products. Itâs 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.
The credit card thing freaked me out the first time I paid at a restaurant in the states. I thought my credit card was being stolen.
What do you guys usually do?
@@RossoAmareno They should do that here instead I trust that more
ââ@@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.
*WALKS AWAY WITH CARD* I literally chased the waitress on my first day in the US yelling âwoah what the hell are you doing?!?!â
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 wouldnât have taken it. The idea of not paying at your table or up at the front is so crazy to non-US citizens but itâs not even really that crazy of a thing? itâs expensive and inconvenient to have a machine at tables or brought to them and itâs expensive to have someone do that solely as their job. We didnât 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
@@haileycompton6852 I live in Australia, and literally every business has a mobile eftpos machine now. Like, petrol stations have them ffs, to say itâs âtoo expensiveâ Is disingenuous and to argue âthatâs the way itâs always been doneâ is always a poor argument
@@haileycompton6852 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 itâs 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.
â@@JeremyVTSlol yeah, we have them in Ukraine, too. It's actually so odd for me that USA don't have them...
In Canada all the resturants had little card readers that were handheld and the severs bring the to the table. Prints your reciept too. Loved it.
As Italian who spent months in USA I totally related to the gym clothes đ I used to wear them all the time and I still use them here in Italy (not going in the gym obv)
Ahja and the point here was what exactly? You're the only person in Italy wearing sporty stuff ? We Germans do that too....
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 đ
Thats done for security reasons tho. And its farely common in countries in Europe too.
Yeah a boy came in and started laughing at me
Thatâs literally SH & Iâm so sorry that happened to you. It sounds funny, but that is not okay
@@sofiabruiz17 there is a gap in the bathroom in most places around the world I think? But america does it BIGG
@@wilbyylarrensburg9306 oo I didnt realise they were that big. I honestly never actually thought it was weird.
I felt the âthereâs so much of everythingâ đ I could just walk in and stare at every single type of mayonnaise and be like âfascinatingâ
I got overwhelmed trying to pick a jar of mayo yesterday. Then I realized I shouldn't be allowed to be an adult
@@shannonrickard8605 haha same. I feel like the anxiety is part of being an adult.
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
"WoW" o0O
Right, American supermarkets really took the 'super' and ran with it
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.
We will allow you home you knowđŠđș
Bruh you think THESE roads are thin??? I'd like to see you in Puerto Rico đđđ
Our roads are thin? Are you at least in the north east?
@@hithro5466 west-north
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.
Iâm 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
Nothing scared me more on my trip to the USA then the massive cracks in the bathroom stalls
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
@@Josku2411 đ
Everyone is uncomfortable and makes a point to mind their own business. Im 26 and never had anyone bother me
@@kyleejennings5823 girl u lucky asf
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 everyoneeeđ
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 âregularâ sized sandwich in the UK then? Are the bread slices smaller over there?
@@nickjack1696 brother asked a very good question
@@nickjack1696 theyâre probably like subway sandwiches that you can cut into smaller ones.
@@cecyliamaiden1973 damn weâre talking baguette style
@@cecyliamaiden1973 exactlyyy weâre taking AMERICAN TAKEOUT sandwiches
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.
I was born and raised here and Im still not used to public stalls đ„Č
Nah you should see the bathroom stall cracks at my school đ
The same reason I never once pooped in school in my whole life.
omg rlly I can fit my entire hand through the cracks it's absolutely insane I always have to stuff it with my jacket before I use the restroom
Ikr. I try to get the one on the end for that reason
@@tim.tam.tim.6472 đł but why?
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
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. Iâm still traumatized
Edit : the girls name was olivia and I assure it probably wasnât any of you
Omg! That's creepy as hell! I'm sorry that happened to you đźđ„ș
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 đ
The same thing happened to me! But in 1st grade!
THIS HAPPENED TO ME AT CCD OR WHATEVER THAT CHURCH SCHOOL WHEN I WAS A KID
This happened to me but in like 4th or 5th grade đ
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!
This video has wholesome energy
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 doesnât have to be rude and stormed out shdjsufkshskansisnf đđđ đ
Lmaoo. Don't be rude I'm just being invasive and creepy
I hope girlie then stormed into her next therapy appointment bc damn
Thatâs why you carry around a small spray bottle with dye in it, water isnât 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 wouldnât be able to see you through those cracks while youâre in there, thatâs for sure.
HUHHHH GURL OMGGG
@@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.
Imagine being new to a country and you hand a waiter your card and they just run off and you didnât know they did that
they would be reporting an incident afterwards đđ
I never understood this part. What do they do with the card? In England you just swipe itđ
@@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.
@@since1290 yeah
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. đ€Łđ€Ł
Yup. Moved to Romania 3 years ago and when I go back to visit the US I noticed the differences so much more especially the clothes part lol
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??? đ
WAIT WHAT? I WANT ONE OF THESE
@@HenryNWhite-zp5zp we also have an entire aisle dedicated to potato chips and an entire aisle dedicated to carbonated beverages.
because there are so many brands
We like our cereal đ
Why is it /reverse/ culture shock?
In Mexico, cards can't be taken away from the customer's sight. They charge everything in front of you.
@@andreaknisley154 In Germany, where you don't have these dangers, they also charge you in front of you.
Same in the UK. The card has to be in customers' sight when being charged.
In Turkey they charge in front of you too, I think it's just an American thing. We just tap our cards and go, no need to even insertđ€·
â@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.
â@@danadomino how are they charging the card like that?? Do you mean contactless? But what if the meal costs more than the limit?
grocery stores used to be soooo much smaller
and people dressed differently
I live in Canada, and even though weâve 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 âHey! Where are you going with my card?!â lol. We pay at the table. I think athletic-leisure wear is acceptable here too (not caught up with the fashion trends lol)
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in Europe and the UK at least idk about others they donât even touch your card you put it in the machine and type your pin or tap for contactless
Why did you write this in a way that implies the UK isn't part of Europeđ?
@@Idontknow-zs2jj technically itâs not. I mean not politically anymore. Since Brexit itâs now just the UK.
@@VictorianRabbit3456 I believe you're confusing the European union (EU) with Europe the continent. You can't just remove a country from a continent.
@@Idontknow-zs2jj Brits have this weird idea that they're separate. People here will talk about "going to Europe". Dude, you're IN Europe
Same in Russia, a waiter also looks away when you insert your card's pin đ
Itâs crazy because the athleisurewear thing is so true! Like wearing workout sweats with a cute top and some sneakers is super duper normal for međ
Lol not for me. I look at ppl like why are you wearing that đ. But here I am in literal pajama pants. The pot calling the kettle black.
Athleisurewear is awesome đ Especially when my kids were smaller and wanted me to play with them at the park â€ïž
I love athleisure wear, itâs 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
in europe we only ever wear it if it's workout day otherwise you're weird đ€Ł crazy how different things are on each side of the world
i have no idea what athleisurewear means, as long as you dont smell, i really do not care what youâre wearing at all
I remember once my friend from Europe asking if I was going to go work out, but I was just wearing shorts and a t shirt to hang around my dorm
That was a huge culture shock moving here. Why is everyone in gym clothes and trainers at 11am! In the supermarket! Mind blowing
The biggest shock I had when visiting was when in supermarkets they donât charge you for plastic bags. That completely confused me đ
Unless you are in California and some other places but most places dont
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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.
@@ivetterodriguez1994 it is effective, Aldi charges and people dont use the plastic bags often because of it đ
@@ivetterodriguez1994 that's the correct orderđ€Ł that's how I was taught
As a person who lives in the US, Iâm also amazed by how big some supermarkets are.
Truth!
hong kong supermarket be a museum fr
@@gilnahnu My bucket list country to visit.
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...
â@@goa6329 sounds like Walmart to me đ€·đŸââïž
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 Iâm proud of though I can understand the shock.
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.
Those bathroom cracks really be testing the limit of my self consciousness
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 itâs not your fault youâre too big for these stalls đ
Sooo.... You got to pet a doggie FOR FREE WHILE you shat, and you're upset?!?!?
He was just checking in! Making sure ur alright in there too
@@sdomingo2548 ~ What a good boy! đ
LOL
At least it was only a dog and not an entire child. Lol! đ I have 2 kids so I was as understanding as I could possibly beâŠ
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 donât 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 âthis will be a favorite story to tell and embarrass him in front of any future girlfriendsâ!đđ€Ł
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.
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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.
WE HATE THE CRACKS TOO!!!! And the walking away with our card and the overload of products at the grocery stoređ
Whatâs the reason for the cracks? Are they like that in every public restroom?
@@rumplestiltskin8838 no reason for the cracks its just the gap between the doors and walls. its not that big of a gap
@@rumplestiltskin8838 not ~every~ public restroom but nearly every public restroom. the only fully-closed restrooms ive seen in my town are family-bathrooms
I believe the doors are smaller to save money on material
Normal Americans donât mind the waiter/ress walking away with the card or the different options of products.
OUUUUUUUUU GIRL and don't let you have to pee outside and be wearing a romperđ public bathrooms are like a new season of Naked and Afraid but it's just you
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what?
@@cookiedoech â€ïž
Exactly why I have not owned a romper in 30 years.
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 đ
Yeah our Swiss exchange student couldnât believe how much quantity & variety we had in every grocery store. And how _affordable_ it was!
Why are our bathroom stall cracks so big! You know how many times I've made eye contact with someone while I'm ON the toilet! lmao
Simple, ventilation, and easy access for emergency teams, bathrooms had a ridiculous number of people in danger of a health risk, itâs 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
I WOULD JUST HOLD IT IN MY ANXIOUS ASS WOUKD NOT BE ABLE TO HANDLE THAT
Well people like to do drugs in public bathrooms or worse.
@@neoanimegirl I'm so confused by this comment, lol. Are we saying a-okay to spying on people who are quite usually trying to relieve themselves?
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.
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I knew American had a lot of different products but never realized the actual size of the supermarket
THE BATHROOM STALL ONE PLSđđ
As someone who moved from U.S to Spain, i was surprised that we didnât have to lockdown drills đđđ
Iâm so glad they donât walk away with your card where I live lmaoo
What do they do with it then??
@@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?
@@Natasha.08 Ohhh we have a few places like that where you pay as you leave, it's just not that common.
@@chelseamunroe they bring the card reader to the table
@@Natasha.08 that's because our restaurants aim to cater to the customer
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! Iâve always been very conservative about showing skin. I have hated our bathroom stalls ever since đ
Wtf I would have slapped her
it's not a reverse culture shock it's just a culture shock.
THE BATHROOM CRACKS đđđ
When I went to Norway i was so shocked at how nice all the bathrooms were đ
What Norway did you go tođđ
@Khan 04 idk i was mostly in TromsĂž? At least compared to the South in the US ir was good đ€·ââïž 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
As a Norwegian, I want to know what makes you think the bathroom was nice? Like the public bathroom? đ
@@amberhorsmanTrust me. Even though Iâve 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.
Iâm sure youâd have a heart attack if you looked at American gas station bathrooms đ.
@@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 đ 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 đ€·ââïž And usually there is water all over the sinks, mirrors and floors because people have forgotten how washing hands works after the pandemic ended đđ Not saying that the cleaners do a bad job, just not everything gets the same priority or attention when cleanedđ€·ââïž
the card thing stresses me out so much, when iâm there is always ask for the machine to do it myself and they would seem shocked. bro iâm not giving you my credit card to walk away with tf
Iâm other countries do all restaurants big and small have the ability to run cards right at the table? Fancy restaurants to casual eateries? I had no idea!
@@DS-wo5hd in canada where i am, yes, they bring the debit machine and a printed bill to the table and you pay yourself. in stores and such the machine is in front of you, never been an issue.
I usually just pay with cash to avoid this.
When I studied abroad my biggest reverse culture shock (US) at first was how crazy enthusiastic all the ads were. đ
Foreign exchange German student was shocked we could drive at 16 but couldnât drink until 21. Apparently itâs kinda the reverse there
Th bathroom stall cracks are going to be the reason I move countryâs istgđ
Don't move to Canada tho, you'll be disappointed
ââ@@b-vQEVXideVFSCfCoFWw well "Canada" is just a Br*tish construct, so its the exact same
â@@TOTUdon't learn from our government
yâall!! try to keep a jacket in the car as often as you can. when it comes to having no option but the public bathroom, take the jacket and hang the hood on the top corner before you lock it. it will stay up and block the crack so other people wonât see you. it has saved me so many times!!
the bathroom thing is so accurate
Wouldn't you still want to change into non sweaty clothes after exercising though. đ
I totally get the card thing. Iâm Canadian and I found it really scary to just let some stranger take my card away somewhere.
it's so normal and yet I would never go to a restaurant by myself bc .. need for witnesses lol
Genuinely asking, is the fear that the server will run off with your card and charge it for something else?
@@KarunyaSabapathy that or they could take down my information and continue to steal money after Iâm gone. So ya I guess itâs 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 itâs 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 itâs tampered with, itâll show on the sticker/ink you left on it
I just much rather the way we do it here. They bring the machine to the table or at certain sushi restaurants you go to the front desk to pay
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 portionsđ
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
â@@snickers6125exactlyy like everyone hates on it but like why? It's great to have leftovers
â@@Feelingabitgoofy maybe you aren't going home? So it's just random luck if you're going straight home and can save them.
Would annoy me
It can create waste if it isnât eaten
â@@snickers6125 idk even with the small portions in Europe I take leftovers home. Like we usually do not eat half of that đand after dining we like to walk. So very different cultures
I am completely overwhelmed in the grocery store! My b.f. usually goes for us because, it's too much!
Public bathrooms just wouldn't be public enough without the cracks.