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That you have to pay to park most places. I kinda thought it was a “well, you can pay if you want but you don’t really have to”
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Umbrellas are useless here
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That you can drink at 18 here! And also you can drink with your family when you’re like 14. I was like whaaat?
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Things that’d freak Americans out about the UK: What y’all eat for breakfast. OMG. If they saw: The Mushrooms, The Tomatoes, The Baked Beans. All of this, the “Full English”. Absolutely flip out, okay?
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Things I’d never done until I moved to the UK: Sat outside in the sun with a coat on
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What my husband has been doing now I call sun shifting. As the sun shifs he will shift his chair closer and closer until the edges all the way to the corner of the garden
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Meals I’d never had until I moved here: I know this is a side dish but it’s an absolute gamechanger. Cauliflower & Cheese. Absolutely ELITE
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Meals I’d never had until I moved here: Fish & Chips. We don’t have fish & chip shops back home. We have something called Captain D’s. It’s a franchise, like McDonalds, where you drive through.
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Things I’d never done until I moved to the UK: I’d never had sweet popcorn in the cinema
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Things I’d never done until I moved to the UK: Parallel parked. I still struggle, If I’m honest. It’s a struggle
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Things that’d freak Americans out about the UK: The queues at McDonalds! I don’t know about your McDonalds but my McDonalds stays LIT! And by lit I mean on fire! People wrapped around the building and y’all wait. The Americans would not wait in that queue, do you hear me? They would drive two blocks down to the next McDonalds. There’s a McDonalds on every damn corner
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Things that taste different in the UK: Pickles. We have the big fat sour pickles. I miss those. Yours guys seem to be sweet.
