Tuesday, January 27, 2009

America ????

Well I am in the states and not wanting to seem like one of those people that are above the country they are visiting but I am. And I shall list the oddities I have discovered:
1) Everything is excessively large for no apparent reason.
eg. You want to buy tea, the smallest pack you are likely to find is 100
2) The toilets are unusual. They are very low, most don't have lids, the seat is not complete it has a gap at the front in the middle, the water level is very high, basically just under the seat.
3) America does not know what good coffee is, flat white? flat who?
4) The dinning commons, which is where I eat, serves donuts, cookies and waffles for breakfast. Nearly all of the cereals are sugar frosted. They also serve cheese burgers and soda (American for soft drink) at 7am, which I have witnessed rather large people tucking into.
5) People often have front bums.
6) Most people think I am from England, that's right folks not even Australia.
7) In coffee they put 'creamer' which is like milk or cream but has no dairy, is in powder form and is made out of hydrogenated corn syrup, containing 10 calories per 2 gram serving, no wonder they are fat. 
8) Being represented as the capitalist consumer country of the world the normal hours for a shop to open is 10am - 11am. Many shops are closed in the weekends and the city of Sacramento is very much dead on saturday and Sunday?? Who knew.

Well folks that is all for today. I will try to think of the novel things and the positives for next time (and yes there are some). In the mean time as O'bama says "God Bless America".
 

1 comment:

Iris P Love said...

I swear to God I saw you on Oriental Parade on Saturday! There can be only two explanations for this apparent phenomenon.
1. You have discovered a clandestine portal in Sacramento that only connects to seaside locales.
2. You have a doppelganger who has surreptitiously step into the breach created by your departure.
I suggest you pay me a large sum of either cash or Orioles to "whack" this imposter, therefore ensuring that when you return, there will be no disturbance of the time-space continuum.