21.
Food portion sizes… In EU you get food portions you can finish and are generally calculated to be pretty much fill/satisfy you over the entire meal.
When I go to the US I can fill myself up with half of the appetizer
22.
Unused vacation days
23.
The use of the words junior, sophomore and senior in school. I don’t think I have ever heard these outside of an American TV show or movie.
24.
I can’t speak for the whole world, but having elections on a weekday seems crazy to me. We do it in the weekend so that people are off work anyway.
25.
A single pool of paid time off that you use for both vacation and sick leave. Therefore having to forego vacation to keep a bank of leave just in case you get ill.
26.
People constantly thanking god for every day occurrences
27.
Those commercials featuring some sort of drug or medication. With the typical closing where the narrator states “Side effects includes blah blah blah…Discuss with your doctor about blah blah blah”
28.
Tipping, most other places actually pay their waiters/waitresses and tippings just for extremely good service or rounding up.
29.
Having to drive everywhere. I’m 27-years-old, not from the US and never learnt to drive. I’ve also never felt like I needed it.
30.
It’s pretty funny watching Americans moan over their super-cheap petrol prices. “But we drive everywhere, cars are fundamental to our society”. Yep, same here in Australia, too. Your fuel is still incredibly cheap.
