Doin' the "American" thing...

[jen&darcy 0]

This is an interesting thread. I don't have anything to add because I am the USC. I like reading the posts though.

[Widge 0]

i asked geoff and he said: turning a blind eye to bush destroying america!

Oh my how true this is !!!!!!!!!!!!! I am forever ranting that to hubby that I cannot beieve how everyone here sits and watches from the sidelines quietly

On a very personal note I knew I'd arrived when I succumbed out of desperation and put bleach into the washing machine

[Lizzy 0]

Drove from Oklahoma to Penn State, to look for a new house!!

36 hours with a 4 year old - NEVER AGAIN!

[danae 0]

Going to a nightclub that had an exterior fully painted in cow print, and watching in astonishment people actually line-dancing!! Wasnt a line-dancing night, or event- just your average night out, and everyone was line dancing!!!!!!! i really couldnt believe it!

[pja002 0]

As a USC, I notice that most of the post here are from the UK end of the world. When I was living in the UK, I knew I had accepted my fate when I started walking the kids to the primary school in any weather, rain, snow and sleet. I've eaten haggis and liked it! And I do miss sticky toffee pudding. BUT NOW its his turn....

I've got hubby prepared for his new life here. He already has white socks, has bought coffee to go and although it bothers him, I've used bleach in my white wash loads. Now if he would only hurry up and get over here so that I can get him hooked on those DQ blizzards and truly air-conditioned cars.

Edited July 17, 2006 by pja002

[Dina 0]

As a USC, I notice that most of the post here are from the UK end of the world. When I was living in the UK, I knew I had accepted my fate when I started walking the kids to the primary school in any weather, rain, snow and sleet. I've eaten haggis and liked it! And I do miss sticky toffee pudding. BUT NOW its his turn....

I've got hubby prepared for his new life here. He already has white socks, has bought coffee to go and although it bothers him, I've used bleach in my white wash loads. Now if he would only hurry up and get over here so that I can get him hooked on those DQ blizzards and truly air-conditioned cars.

I am confused... you don't use bleach in the UK at all? As it happens, I don't use it for my whites either, I am the USC.

[babybunny 2]

eat chicken with Hot Pepper sauce < texas pete of course >

with sweet Iced tea ..

Going to a nightclub that had an exterior fully painted in cow print, and watching in astonishment people actually line-dancing!! Wasnt a line-dancing night, or event- just your average night out, and everyone was line dancing!!!!!!! i really couldnt believe it!

gonna take Javed line dancing when he arrive here..

taking the car everywhere you go...when jamie and I went on our first date we took the car to a restaurant that was 50 feet away...I still laugh about that!

Javed will proble freak about that...

[Itsmeitsmeitsree! 0]

Once when Billy said something funny, I told him, "You'll become an American yet!"

He said, "I could never be an American. I'm not a tiny woman driving a massive SUV through the bank while drinking my coffee and talking on my cell phone and reapplying my lipstick on the way to pick up the kids so that they can eat a cheeseburger out of a bag."

Oh, and he agrees that most of us seem to have an apathetic attitude toward the current governing body. Those "W" stickers on the back of the aforementioned SUV's really wind him up!

[Lou Lou 1]

He said, "I could never be an American. I'm not a tiny woman driving a massive SUV through the bank while drinking my coffee and talking on my cell phone and reapplying my lipstick on the way to pick up the kids so that they can eat a cheeseburger out of a bag."

That's classic!

I guess I did think of one more American....going to a diner for breakfast.

Bleach? No way. We bought a front loader to avoid this. They should sell decent washing machines to stop this practice

(I can't understand why people think jumping lights or cutting up traffic is typically American. Doesn't that happen in literally every city in the world??)

[govols 0]

He said, "I could never be an American. I'm not a tiny woman driving a massive SUV through the bank while drinking my coffee and talking on my cell phone and reapplying my lipstick on the way to pick up the kids so that they can eat a cheeseburger out of a bag."

That's classic!

I guess I did think of one more American....going to a diner for breakfast.

Bleach? No way. We bought a front loader to avoid this. They should sell decent washing machines to stop this practice

(I can't understand why people think jumping lights or cutting up traffic is typically American. Doesn't that happen in literally every city in the world??)

We have been going out to breakfast a lot since Tony has arrived. It's very inexpensive and that was something that Tony hadn't done very much at all before. He's also ordered "gravy and biscuit" a few times!

Karen

[Kajikit 65]

Going to the drive-through bank and then stopping at the drive-through Krispy Kreme store on the way home because their hot-and-now sign is lit up

[Sister Fracas 5]

(I can't understand why people think jumping lights or cutting up traffic is typically American. Doesn't that happen in literally every city in the world??)

guess they've never driven in Italy...where the horn is the most important essential feature..

Anywhooo...I think I'd say for hubster...most American thing was going to a baseball game and having a hotdog. How all-American is that?? heh

[rob&ana 0]

Driving through the orange traffic light instead of stopping - and having an additional 3 and 4 cars drive through the light after me!

Oooooh... I used to do that all the time back home...

It'd be... actually stopping at Stop signs....

[chri'stina 190]

I think one of the most American things Sujeet did was going to see an American President speak! I was working that day and I didn't even get to go. During the 2004 elections he went to a park to see Bush speak, and wasn't very far away from him either.

(I can't understand why people think jumping lights or cutting up traffic is typically American. Doesn't that happen in literally every city in the world??)

I guess whoever is complaining about American driving has never been to India or a place where they drive like they do in India. American roads (outside of major cities) are heavenly compared to that.

[Dr_LHA 3]

Drove from Oklahoma to Penn State, to look for a new house!!

36 hours with a 4 year old - NEVER AGAIN!

Our honeymoon was driving from LA to State College! 5 days and my wife was sick, so I had to do all the driving. Lovely!

Still, I saw a bald eagle in Utah. That was pretty American.

The most American thing I have probably ever done is tailgating for 8 hours and then going to a Penn State "Football" game.

I should say that the experience of sobering up for 4 hours in a stadium of 110,000 people isn't the greatest I've ever experienced. Personally I like to still be drunk by the time the game ends!

Edited July 18, 2006 by dr_lha