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stockula

stockula

Anchorage, AK
May 2003

JAN 10, 2005 07:02 PM

TedKoppel said:

stockula said:

Trucker_Fiction said:
I've never seen a "Way Give" sign. where did you see this nonsense?


Me neither. Is it like a "Yield" sign or something?


More common examples: painted on the road will be the words:
STOP
AHEAD

PED
XING

Etc. The way it's written in Southern California at the very least, is you read bottom to top, I suppose the theory being that maybe a word won't be visible first because of fog or maybe you're on a hill. So if you are still reading top to bottom, the words appear to be:

AHEAD
STOP

XING
PED

I had assumed it was that way all over the country, but I guess not.




I figure it'd be a waste of money to do that here. 8 months out of the year, they'd be covered with snow, or worn away by studded tires.

But I have never seen (or noticed) them driving around the Lower 48. Hm.

DeviantOne

DeviantOne

Wesley Chapel, FL
November 2003

JAN 10, 2005 10:54 PM

I was in London a few years ago and some of the more noticeable differences were as follows:

-Awesome accents. In 2 weeks, I was thinking with the accent. I had to consciously suppress the urge to let it escape from my mouth.

-Drivers. Yikes. That about covers it. ("Proper side of the road" my ass)

-Funny obsession with the metric system. Yea, it makes more scientific sense and is really easy to figure out, but it's still weird.

-Friggin coins. What's with all the coinage in the currency?? (Ok, aside from saving the cost of making more paper money while being able to circulate the metal stuff forever)

-Food. Yea, I lost weight in London. The only thing that London food had going for it was Fanta, which wasn't in the US at the time and actually tasted good over there.

-Lack of American cars. There were a few, but not many. You know, I think you guys are on to something...

dem_z

dem_z

United Kingdom
June 2004

JAN 10, 2005 11:15 PM

toothpickmoe said:
I remember sitting in a station in Northern England, having a prepackaged meat pie and looking around at all the friggin' English people! They were everywhere and they all had such cute accents. Did the reverse ever happen to you? Where you thought, "Good gravy, what a huge bunch of Americans there are! And how quaint are their speech patterns."


I was in a diner in Truckee, thinking "I love the waitress and if she wasn't half my age I'd propose and live here for ever." She gave our table some milk and I said "That's great, cheers!", and she looked at me, and said "wait, did you just say "Is that grapefruit?"?".

Aaron

Aaron

Shakopee, MN
July 2004

JAN 10, 2005 11:30 PM

demetrius_z said:

toothpickmoe said:
I remember sitting in a station in Northern England, having a prepackaged meat pie and looking around at all the friggin' English people! They were everywhere and they all had such cute accents. Did the reverse ever happen to you? Where you thought, "Good gravy, what a huge bunch of Americans there are! And how quaint are their speech patterns."


I was in a diner in Truckee, thinking "I love the waitress and if she wasn't half my age I'd propose and live here for ever." She gave our table some milk and I said "That's great, cheers!", and she looked at me, and said "wait, did you just say "Is that grapefruit?"?".


"No you daft cunt, GREAT!"

FleurDeGuerre

FleurDeGuerre

United Kingdom
August 2004

JAN 11, 2005 02:50 AM

God, the most irritating thing was having to pay extra tax on top of what the price said! Why can't you just add it into the price so I don't forget and count out the right change and then realise i have to pay extra! grrr! mad

And whats the deal with jay walking! If I want to take my life into my own hands I will thanks!

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