What's the strangest thing you learned about your partner...

[Nessa 23]

The title says it all. Be honest people:

What's the strangest thing you learned about your partner or his/her country when you first met?

[gimygirl 0]

that he likes tuna fish and mayo on his jacket potato (baked potato)!!!!!!!!! what is up with THAT?!?!?

[Ban Hammer 13,333]

there we were, at a nice restaurant...and the plate of shrimp appeared. and i get one with my fork and quickly started taking the head and tail and legs and shell off.....and she just sticks one in her mouth!!!! shell, head, legs and all! i was like...........#######?

(that's the first thing i told my dad about when i got back to the states too)

on another note, first time i took a shower there i noticed that they have this real big shower head. i was like "cool, a shower massage"

um, no. upon further inspection, i find this electric cord going from it to the wall....220 volts!

all i could think about was "i'm taking a shower with 220 volts heating the water and it's made by the lowest bidder."

[Fuzzness 2]

kudzu is what got me

[crashandcari 0]

cant really say its strange but when i first went to england and we went for gas, me being from ny i couldn't get over that you don't pay at the pump.. you GO INSIDE??? how ancient...

[elizaxyz 0]

Mushy peas on chips. I generally love British food-- pies are amazing, and I even liked the black pudding, but I have to draw the line at mushy peas...

Edited April 24, 2006 by elizaxyz

[gimygirl 0]

kudzu is what got me

kudzu is a smothering vine that covers just about anything and everything .... has even been known to grow over houses!!!

[Nessa 23]

ok, i started this by i can't remember anything now other than he snores loud enough to wake up the dead sorry hubby

[Jasman0717 9]

She is horny

[RaspberrySwirl 20]

She is horny

[misskiya 0]

the one that got Alex AND myself was learnign one thing about each others' countries at once.

We went to Melinas (best restaurant in this area lol) and when we finished our waiter asked if we'd like a box. I replied that we would LOVE some boxes, and he asked me "love, why do we need boxes?"

And there's what we learned, I guess in France you don't take your food home for later. Which amazed me, and here we do, which knocked his socks off.

[KarenCee 3]

I really can't think of anything strange...except maybe the windmills...we dont have them down here in Georgia

[Nessa 23]

She is horny

[Fandango 1,439]

That they ate beans on toast for breakfast, and not being circumsized was the norm....

Mushy peas on chips. I generally love British food-- pies are amazing, and I even liked the black pudding, but I have to draw the line at mushy peas...

I LOVE mushy peas on chips! your partner must be a northerner! I'd take mushy peas over black pud anyday!

[RaspberrySwirl 20]

the one that got Alex AND myself was learnign one thing about each others' countries at once.

We went to Melinas (best restaurant in this area lol) and when we finished our waiter asked if we'd like a box. I replied that we would LOVE some boxes, and he asked me "love, why do we need boxes?"

And there's what we learned, I guess in France you don't take your food home for later. Which amazed me, and here we do, which knocked his socks off.

Oh I have so many restaurant stories!

We don't have free refills, now THAT knocked his socks off.

We waited about 10 minutes before the bartender in a Parisian bar even so much looked our way. Dave's all: Well, someone's not interested in a tip. I'm like: Um you don't tip them, dear.

To be fair, there was a soccer game on and everyone at the bar was too indulged.