British Couple's Surprising first Impressions of USA
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
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We spent 24 hours in America, and what we learned was this...🇺🇸
Liz and Bri are back from their adventures in Canada, but on their way home, they spend time in the USA. Because they have no one else to talk to apart from each other, they couldn't wait to return to New Zealand to share their findings with YOU...
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As a Brit I’ve been to the US many times and apart from the Tenderljon in San Francisco I’ve always felt safe. And found people very friendly.
Guys - sorry but you cannot have any real opinion of America by this tiny little trip to Spokane. I really hope you can come back and see more, much more of America than what you experienced. But remember America is so big and diverse that different regimes are COMPLETELY different from another. And this includes the people.
Thank you, for watching and for taking the time to say hello, Cliff, America has been on our list for SO long and we hope to make this dream happen in the next year - we hope you'll join us and follow along! 🇺🇸😃
It said first impressions in the title.
@@kristinesharp6286 But they seemed surprised about the positive experience. An experience that could have been very different if they were a different race, sexual orientation, or had another accent. That's an important thing to acknowledge... "hey, this is our experience but we know not everyone would have this experience".
Canadian here! Guys - If I may correct you on something. It's very difficult to judge the US as a whole by going through a tiny town in Spokane, WA. Try NYC (where I lived fro 5 years so I have first hand experience), go to Baltimore, go to the South. You will have different experiences everywhere. Overall, you have been there long enough to see the destruction of democracy, how people treat each other. What you've heard is true.
Another enjoyable video. Great stories guys. I love your humour/humor. Keep 'em coming.
Plato - 'One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.'
You've nudged my memory of a trip we did coming up to 10 years ago now. We flew from Auckland to San Francisco, had 4 days in SF, then flew to Dublin where we stayed with family and drove around most of Ireland. We also had two weeks in Tuscany which was wonderful. Coming home we did the same route.
Arriving in San Francisco we got a taxi to get to where we were staying. The taxi driver asked where we were from, and I kid you not -- he got his phone out and his screen shot was a photo of Queenstown! He loved NZ, he wasn't American, I forget which country he was from, but he was such a nice man. Everyone was very friendly.
Thanks for showing us more of your stay in Nelson, Canada. It looked stunning, I always enjoy smaller towns, find big cities overwhelming and stress inducing!
It's good to have you back 💖
It's pronounced Spoke-ANN. Glad you enjoyed your visit to my home state. Eastern Washington is very rural farming country. Western Washington is very urban. And most of us that have guns have them for hunting or personal protection.
Personal protection is the difference between other countries n usa.. we dont need it like usa.
Thanks for sharing, Jim! 😊
@@gissyb1 And they call Americans arrogant...
My first trip to the USA was in 1979, LAX Marriott restaurant they ask you what kind of dressing you want on your salad, you get 5 choices. Small town USA, the people feel just like NZ.
The reason fines are so hefty is to stop chancers like Brian taking the mick😂😂
Right, Iain???!! 😂🍗🍗 I'm surprised he didn't try and pack a few chicken legs along with the BBQ....🤣
Lovely episode. Really enjoyed-
Thank you, so much, Judy, that means a lot to us! 🥰
America loves you!!
Thank you, and sending that love right back to all our lovely Americans watching! 🥰🇺🇸🇺🇸
When we flew from Portland to Auckland via San Francisco, the PDX to SFO portion was a codeshared Delta flight although we booked Air NZ tickets.
We looked up the excess weight fees for Air NZ and saw it was $50 for the first tier. We were fine with this. So when the Delta agent charged us $200, we were stunned.
Turns out, the baggage fees are determined by whichever airline initially accepted the bags.
The agent helpfully told us to hang on to our receipts to show at SFO or AKL, because the record of the overweight fees we paid might not propogate through the system. And as it turns out, the AKL to NPL flight had no record and we had to prove to the agent that we paid the fees in Portland. You shouldn't have to pay again once the bags have been checked through, assuming they were part of the same trip.
Thank you so much for sharing your story, that's super helpful to know. Have a lovely weekend and thank you again for sharing!😊
Haha, yes the only Starbucks between the border and Coeur D’alene is at the Safeway in Bonners Ferry. There’s tons of those little drive thru coffee kiosks in Washington and Oregon. I’m surprised that one was open. Lol. Americans LOVE their sugar, everything seems so sweet to the Canadian palate. Even the same name brand products made in Canada are nowhere near as sweet. The friendly people in restaurants etc is very common in the US. It’s a cultural thing, it’s unusual in our experience to have rude service folks. It has happened, but it’s pretty rare. The baggage weight thing is very strict in the US. You’ll get hammered with extra fees with US airlines. And it’s pronounced Spoke-Ann 😊 like that ‘bloke Dan’
‘back of the plane should get filled first’ 🙌❤️ as an American who consistently traveled for work, I always agreed that the back should get filled first. What a backwards thing to do. It just makes one think that the entire airline caters to the first class so that they can get their snacks and drinks and have a good old time getting settled while the rest of us walked past, SLOWLY, and try not to look at them or watch them while we’re stuck there 😂
A few times I was lucky to get bumped to first class, it made me really uncomfortable to have people walking by while I’m snacking and eating. And then the line moves very slow, so it’s super awkward.
You could have flown Air New Zealand from Vancouver, Canada to Auckland, NZ. I found it to be a superb Airline.
The weight isn't about the handlers. The cost of fuel has gone up so much, they are trying to cut as much weight from the plane as they can. Because a lighter airplane doesn't use as much fuel. As for carry on, the space in the cabin is usually more of a concern than how much it weighs.
And not all airlines are the same.
Thank you for sharing Joseph! 😊
Starbucks is headquartered in in Seattle which like Spokane is in Washington state.
I always pronounce it "Spo-can" 24 hours in no time at all to get to know a country. The u.s. is like 50 different countries in one some states can be different as night and day. Some places in the U.S. you can't understand a word of English, especially down south. The weather is the same thing one area is a desert, another feet of snow,and another like a jungle. Adorable couple. Bri-Bri, your teeth aren't white enough 😂🤣✌️❤️
Hello, our amazing couple! So nice to see your happy faces, dear Liz and Brian, in your beautiful country.Your vlogs always makes us happy and we are giggling with you guys. 🤣Oh my gosh… the view behind you is just stunning! By the way, no snowcap on the mountain? 🤔 We hope you're enjoying the warm weather now-and sleeping in your own beds again. 👍Thank goodness you arrived safely and had a smooth trip.Sending lots of love from cold and snowy Ottawa! 💖
Just found you. You both are a delight! I am a Canadian living in Southern California (Palm Springs ~come visit) and most of the stereotypes aren’t true. I’ve been here for 40+ years and never seen anyone with a gun. I do miss my homeland of Canada. Would love to visit New Zealand, Australia and the South Pacific.
Welcome! Thank you for saying hello, that's so kind of you!😊 Sending much love to you and all our Canadian watchers! 🥰🇨🇦
Agreed - moved to Taranaki from the East Coast of the USA 14 years ago, and I heard "If you go to America, you'll get shot." This always made me laugh out loud because I lived there for most of my life and never saw anyone get shot. It's like anywhere - there are dangerous spots, and safe spots. You learn where they are - and if you happen to work in a bad area (HOSPITALS in the USA are always in drug infested neighborhoods) you get in and out quickly and take the hour drive back to the suburbs or rural town. Drive through coffees are really big over there. I kind of miss them.
It's easy
On the weight-in on your bags, the US Congress just had hearings on how the airline workers look extra hard for even 1 pound over on bag weight because the worker, when they find an overweight bag, they get bonus pay for charging the customer extra fees, each airline has different charges, and every airline will charge differently for each individual customer.
Hi folks,
Im from Montana and i spent a lot of time in Spokane and its one of the prettiest area with the friendliest people. Its one of the safest places in America. I love the everything bagel. I miss that flavor because I live in Stratford, New Zealand. We bought an old villa with a creek running through it from Victoria lake. When i see your back drop it looks like you are near New Plymouth. Great listening to you as you are my neighbors. Want to know the best places in America i can help you with that.
See ya,
Scott
If you came down hw 95 you were in idaho tell you got to spokane. It's one of the safest states in the US and yes Every one is armed. But very polite.
It must feel great to be back home, especially with the view behind you. Must come up and say hello.
It feels great! 😊
Those roads aren't desolate! That's the one good thing about the US, you can drive for miles without a load of traffic! It is perfect for long drives to put your mind back together.
Thank you, Emily 😊
Just wanted to say, love you both! You're a joy!❤☀
Thank you ❤️ And you, Eunice, are what make people like us do what we do. Thank you ❤️ Liz and Brian xx
That was funny. Glad those toes are safe. It's a wonder they didn't drop off with worry!😅😂
🤣🧦🧦hehehe!!
I love you toe/anxiety story at the end 😂😂😂❤
So I adore you guys, but getting to the meat of things…. I’m American. The city I live in is wildly expensive. You wouldn’t find a grilled cheese for under $9 USD. You won’t necessarily get shot, but the stress is not knowing when you’re safe.
Gun violence is the leading cause of death for children here. That’s not politics, just facts. It’s not a safe country, we have more guns than people.
Most people have some level of decorum. We’re very much a “business as usual” country. We adapt, as anyone does to our surroundings.
There are a ton of issues that you just cannot fully wrap your head around on a twenty four hour visit. I’m very grateful you had a decent experience though.
Not being political isn’t a luxury most Americans have. I doubt many people knew the names of more than a couple congress people twenty years ago, or maybe even ten years ago, but we have drama so everyone knows names and the affiliated nonsense to do with that person now.
My mum is Canadian and it’s like visiting another planet driving up there at times.
We’re so grateful for your honest feedback, Jen, and we appreciate you for being with us and for taking the time to share. Thank you, Jen ❤️ Liz and Brian
I am a Canadian from Vancouver. Americans do own lots of guns! The main reason they own them in urban and semi-urban areas is for personal protection. 29/50 states have a "stand your ground law" where you can use lethal force against another person if you simply feel threatened!!! Generally, no consequences whatsoever apply if you kill someone under these criteria!!!
8/50 states have a "castle doctrine law" where one can use deadly force against another (whom you perceive as a possible threat to you,) if they are in your residence, on ypur property and depending upon the specific state, if they are at your place of work or if you are inside your vehicle and you are frightened by someone in or around your vehicle!!!
There are only 13/50 states where there is a "duty to retreat" from a perceived danger before ultimately using lethal force against that perceived threat to your person or the persons that you are with!
Spokane is in Washington State and they have a form of "castle law!"
So, know the lethal weapon usage law for the state that you are visiting! That's crucial to know!!!
The plane will do a wheel stand if the back loaded first👍
If I lived in New Zealand I would never leave ha ha. Stunning country and lovely people. I have family in New Zealand and have spent a month there at a time, loved it. We do need to stop these assumptions about other countries though, we're fed these things and fears about other countries constantly.
Thank you for joining us and for taking the time to say hi! We appreciate you! 😊
Spoke Ann.
Got it, thank you, Anthony! 😊
Or better spo can
25:45 The comedic timing of it. Lol great editing!
Thank you so much, I have passed this compliment on to Brian 🥰 he worked hard on the editing for this video, so we appreciate you noticing and are glad that you enjoyed it! Have a great weekend! 🥰
I know every airline has its issues. But I always try to fly Delta, I have the best experiences with them. All the seats have tv's on the back of them and even in the cheap seats I have leg room, I am 6'1" and I am always comfortable. I know people are going to start telling me about their Delta horror stories and I am sure there are some but for the most part I will no longer fly other airlines unless I don't have a choice. They bent over backwards to get me and my family on other flights when there has been a problem no extra charge and I never felt talked down too. We even had a check on bag go ahead of us once our fault not theirs, and we let them know, the bag was waiting for us at our destination, a very pleasant surprise. We had a direct flight, the bag went to 3 other cities before getting to us it arrived when we did. All you ever hear about are the lost baggage complaints never the miracle bags getting to your destination when they had been sent everywhere else, and it was our fault not theirs and they fixed the problem and were more than nice about it.
Thank you so much for unselfish sharing, life experience, and wonderful tips
Thank you so much, we're glad you found it helpful ❤️
@ItsaDrama Not just helpful, Now I am dreaming on how to move to NZ
Welcome home whanau. So glad you’re home safe and sound.
Arohanui Tracy ❤
Thank you so much, Tracy, feels good to be home!! xx 🥰
They can't load the passengers onto the back of the plane first because there's no landing gear at the back, think seesaw.
Ahhh...wait....whaaaatt?? (Liz by the way....) 😜🤣
We were boarded from the back at the same time as the front, so I don't think that works, lol
@@trudimclaren4301 First class were probably already seated.
@cadifan no, there is no first class on Air NZ, and Business Class boarded at the same time. The flight was full. I used to work at Dunedin Airport and had to help direct passengers to and from aircraft occasionally, and while it was a long time ago, I'm sure there were times only the back door was used for some reason or another. I'm just pretty sure the 'see-saw' theory isn't a thing 🙂
As an American I’m laughing so hard. This is hysterical. I think you’ve watched too many Wild West movies. Most of us really are genuinely nice and don’t carry around guns ready to shoot at the rogue gang leader ready to shoot us. Hahaha. I do admit though we are usually sarcastic and are ready for a quick somewhat aggressive but funny response like the flight attendant.
When I visit usa... without fail I'll hear guns going off
I'm glad you enjoyed the episode, Nicole and thank you for saying hi! 😃🇺🇸
Folks, if you'd driven over to Vancouver, BC and driven down the interstate and entered the US at Blaine, you would have had a different experience. Where you crossed in the stix you wouldn't have gone through any large towns or seen much traffic before you made Spokane but the scenery would have been nice. Coming down I-5 from Canada is on a 12 lane divided highway which never stops, day or night. I sometimes see all that traffic headed north out of Seattle and I ask myself, "Where the hell are all those people going?" You would have been amazed by Seattle because it's so much like a NY city or Chicago, only with scenery. As for guns, you had nothing to fear, at least from the average guy, because Washington is only behind California and New York as the most gun grabbingest state. Even though it's a constitutional carry state, the politicians in Olympia are working overtime to ensure folks can't exercise their right to self defense and they've created some of the most convoluted anti-gun rules in the country. So, if you'd run into someone with a gun it would have been a cop or a criminal - not a normal law-abiding person. Anyway, there is a whole lot to see in do in the western corridor - the space between the Cascade mountains and Puget Sound and the Pacific - so next time you should check it out - just ignore the homeless encampments though. Those are everywhere and everyone needs to give them wide berth.
Buy a set of bag scales. Easy to weigh first and know. I got caught the same, take scales everywhere with me now.
Such a good idea! (You listening Bri?? Thank you, Bruce!) 😊
Father Christmas wife's name is Merry. Good to see you're home safe.
Hehe!! It slipped my mind, John! (along with the grilled cheese, J...🧀🧑🎄) 😆
❤ you guys,keep up the good work😊
Thank you so much, Wendy, we really appreciate your support amd kindness 😊
Glad your back
Thank you! We are thrilled to be home! Thank you for joining us ❤️🇳🇿
Grilled cheese?!? 😂❤
I’ve been to the US a number of times.
The biggest takeaway I have is I feel with Americans if you’re not a somebody, you’re a nobody.
Had me laughing. We spent 3 months in UK last year and it was myth dispelling for us Yanks too. Londoners were pretty much like US big city residents. Northern Ireland residents were quite lovely similar to rural US residents. While cycling in the Cotswolds an elderly woman flagged us down and treated us to homemade cake and loaded us up with treats. The gun thing in the US is over-sensationalized. Guns are quite common in rural areas for dealing with rural life. The only times I have observed guns brandished in urban areas were in Detroit and Houston, both times having accidentally strayed into the less savory parts of town.
Welcome home, a relief to hear your feet are ok 😂
Heheh!! Thank you, Jill!! 😆 🧦Have a lovely weekend xx
Absolutely bueatiful back drop scene welcome home.
Thank you, Lorena 🥰🇳🇿
Did the lovely lady making delicious bagels ask about your accent? I'm a poor age pensioner, so I'll never make it to the US, but I'd love to visit the Appalachians, full of old settlements and history with coal mining towns doing it tough, but staunchly solid hill-country people. Are those white sheep or goats in your great backyard?
She didn't Robert, but yes, she was so lovely (and the bagel was delish!!) Sending you much love, our friend 😊
They are sheep.
I always get a chuckle when new visitors to the US are overly paranoid about guns and fear going to rural areas or small towns. This paranoia has been spoon fed to them by movies and TV, often written by people who don't actually spend any time in rural or small town America. It really cracks me up when they have rural folks in the west have heavy southern accents. The fact of the matter is that you are usually never safer or likely to find someone to help you out if your car breaks down, than in rural/small town areas. I'll just leave you with this. I am in my mid 50s and live in one of the biggest cities in the US. I have also traveled to probably 40 of the 50 states, including the much-demonized deep south. I have never once, in all my years, seen someone draw a gun or knife in anger. Just like anywhere else in the world, just use common sense when travelling. If you're in a big city, maybe don't go into the worst neighborhoods. Talk to the locals. You'll be fine.
Not everyone has a gun.
But there are more guns than people in the US, so its a reasonable fear. How would anyone know who does and doesn't have a gun?
Welcome Home.
Thank you my friend 🥰
It's about the safety of the baggage handlers. You've undoubtedly lifted 50lbs and up and know how taxing that can be on a body repeated over and over again. If they didn't charge high fees, people would overpack. I'm not pro big airline or anything, but I totally understand the 50lb limit. They shouldn't charge for baggage, period!
You make a very valid point, Sara! Thank you for joining us and for takin g the time to say hi! Have a great weekend 😊
Great vid guys, same here in oz, as a kiwi living here, there is nothing to kill you here, unless you go looking for it, I feel for the Aussie bros getting a bad wrap for things they have no control over.
You can walk across the road tomorrow and get bowled over by a bus? Go figure?
Thank you, Sam! Sending much love to you and all our wonderful friends in Australia! 🇦🇺🥰
Umm, many varieties of poisonous spiders in and around houses, snakes that can and do enter, shark attacks in the beaches, crocs in the rivers…list goes on.
As an American, let me be the first to tell everyone NOT from America, PLEASE STOP LISTENING TO THE NEWS AND OTHER MEDIA OUTLETS. Most of everything you hear about America and its people are either not true or blow out of proportion. Every country has good and bad people and places. The United States is a country that has many different people of different nationalities, races, and creeds, and 95% of us are just plain hard-working people who try to live their life as kind and helpful as they can. Our country tends to get a bad wrap all the time because of how the media portrays us. Its funny how people from outside of the country come to America and go back home with a different frame of mind about the country and its people.
You guys are not just youtubers. Can I say? Messengers and travelers as well.
You can say! Thank you ☺️ We try and bring our travel findings to the world in the only way we know how - by telling it as it is, and we really appreciate your kind words. Thank you 😊
@ItsaDrama You are very welcome
Damn u r a beautiful kiwi whanau. I'm a kiwi before I'm a Maori. Maori will argue that, but if u r a kiwi it's He Ma. Look around u. EVERYTHING be it yr ph or yr car, where did it come from, not the little book u find in a motel, it came from He ma, Mother nature. Luv u guy, so beautiful whanau. Just Love the ground u walk on.❤❤
Thank you, Mark, that comment touched our hearts ❤️
Spokane - pronounced ‘Spo-can’ ❤️
i have flown with united air-lines twice --found them to be awesome couldnt do enough for us---american airlines were average
Thanks for sharing! We appreciate you 😊✈️
Liz 😅you are such a drama queen 👸 love it 😂
Hehehe!! You know it, Marlène 😆😆🎭🎭
I found this quite sad. This isn’t first time I’ve realized that the primary assumption that people come here with is that this is such a dangerous place. People (mainly judgemental Europeans) are willing to believe the absolute worse about you before they step one foot inside your country.
Well. I've visited 11 states and each time I've heard guns going off...
@@gissyb1 Were you hunting? Because if you weren't, then I'm calling bullshit on this comment.
Americans are nice.
They are, Heather X ❤️
NZ Aotearoa missed you whanau 👌👌
We missed you too, lovely friend! Thank you for joining us!! xx
Second comment in as many weeks. You went to Spokane (Spoke can) and probably drove through northern Idaho. Have taken that road many times and lived in Spokane for years. Know the area beginning in the 1950's to present day. Idaho is very conservative and probably most people own guns, if only for hunting. Not surprised you encountered the kind lady in the coffee cart because in such a rural and sparsely populated area neighbors need to rely on each other. You definitely had only a taste of America.
Thanks for sharing and for bein g with us (again!) Doris! We appreciate you 😊
IMO north Idaho is some of the best part of the USA. There are coffee kiosks on every corner, but not many Starbucks.
Americans are overall lovely people. In the rural region where I grew up, you will see large trucks valued $80K with rifles secured across the rear window gun rack, political stickers for Trump, owning the libs, don’t tread on me, and hunters for Jesus. Then drive a few miles to another community and there are $80K cars with stickers pleading for no guns, stopping the orange menace for peace, love, and rainbow flags. Most have pro and university sports teams or some hobby or sport interest branded sticker identifying affiliation. The American two-party system has turned the culture hyper-focused in brand and tribal identity. Because the way votes are counted and the winning party declares a winner-takes all mandate, half if the US feels screwed at any moment. Americans are now sh*t at developing political coalitions because the two-party system is a multi-billion $ industry. Most Americans are upset with their local, state, and federal governments but clueless at how to build healthy coalitions.
You will love everyone you meet - just don’t whisper a word that could put you in the bottomless political swamp.
Yeah that sounds like a living nightmare....you can keep it.
I love your analysis of US politics. ❤️
@@pigeonnesttunes I wish my humor had less of a big bite to the truth.
Welcome home, I'm with you Brian all the way, perhaps they should start weighing the people - thats where the weight is.
But with airlines these days everything is just about the money
Oh my goodness...imagine if they weighed us after that massive bagel....I'd need to re-mortgage...😂🥯🥯🥯
@ItsaDrama lol, yes we all might have to slim down to fly.
Grilled cheese sandwich.
Thank you! 😆🧀🧀
It is pronounced Spoh-kan!!!🤘the Pacific Northwest of America is the most magnificently beautiful region of the United States of America 🇺🇸 our right to protect ourselves with firearms is one of the greatest rights that separates the USA from everywhere else on Earth🇺🇸
Haha. "Where's she stucking all that stuff". Love it.
🤣🤣 well...ya know....🤣
You want desolate try Northern Canada LMAO!!!!!!!! BTW most of us DO have guns in our car.
Welcome home!! Would like to know what your kids say about the white Cristmas etc. Love 😅
Grilled cheese
YYAAASSS!! 🧀🧀🧀🤣🤣
If you were going to certain cities and even their surrounding suburbs you would see a bit more danger. It would matter what block you were on cause the neighborhood could suddenly change.
Spokane voted 51% Trump 46% Harris. I looked it up. You may wonder about the rest of the votes or think Americans bad at math. The rest went to candidates that pulled out or third party candidates that never get too large a showing. After the election there were people on tv like the View and certain news stations encouraging people to push back against their friends, families and neighbors that voted for Trump. Particularly for Thanksgiving. There was a whole it’s okay to not go to your mom’s for Thanksgiving if she voted Trump. Most news abroad comes from those outlets. I’m not surprised you were worried. I’m not surprised you were expecting unhappy people, riots, guns in sight. It’s not just movies but it’s also on ‘news’. I am in Illinois an hour from Chicago. I used to live in Chicago. When I got to Washington, Oregon or California on vacation I get yelled at for saying sir and ma’am. If you want to meet really polite people go to the south eastern U.S. they put the rest of us to shame. We did early voting. I noticed signs in my area for both candidates. So less than 2 weeks before the election I got brave for the first time and called the party org and they had signs in stock so I got one and put it outside my house. We were 2-1 having 3 voters in the house. But we already voted. I was not trying to influence anyone in my house. My husband surprised but I said I was tired of being afraid of someone being mischievous with the sign taking or destroying it and it’s just for a few weeks. If someone does not like me too bad. So 12 days later, a few days after the election we took the sign down. Then comes a knock on the door the following weekend. The woman was with her husband. I opened the big door but kept the storm door closed. She kept saying I am your neighbor. I said okay why are you here. She said I know who voted for and that ‘they’ won gesturing to where the sign was. I said again okay why are you here. Then she pulled out some paper and started to go off on me on ‘wanting me to know’ this is the sort of person my values aligned with. I called her a name and closed the big door. As I was closing the big door she got mad at me for the name I called her and went to open the storm door but I think her husband grabbed her and walked her away. Within 2 hours I had bought a ring doorbell and my husband installed it so we don’t have to go to the door anymore or if we do the person ringing might behave differently knowing their image captured. And I immediately called my neighbor who had the same sign next door so her teen kids would not open the door to this lady and her husband. Clearly my unhinged neighbor watches the View, CNN, MSNBC and took their egging on to harass people suggestion literally. I still can’t believe someone walked up to my door remembering the sign I used to have on my own lawn to harass me for who I voted for. Luckily I don’t give in to peer pressure so my vote going forward won’t be influenced. I did not worry I was going to get shot.
I do not have a gun but I grew up with one in the house cause my dad was a police officer nd had 24/7. My husband is a veteran. My niece did basic training last summer. My FIL has a rifle, but he has a farm with livestock. I see the necessity of them. We personally don’t need one though. I have it so ingrained since childhood I am not allowed to touch one, I still think I’m not allowed to touch one. I’m 52. We did not have gun safes in the 70’s. And lots of classmates had cops for parents and guns might not be secured in their house. So the don’t touch it was the method of safety. I was also not allowed to touch a nerf gun or water gun in childhood. A neon orange water squirter looked nothing like my dad’s service revolver, but whatever. Gun ownership varies by purpose and what part of the country you live. Growing up in a neighborhood with a lot of cops I have known of incidents where an off duty cop stopped the bank robber. So it’s comforting to know a lot of people have a license and training. I feel safer. If you have a gun legally you need a license and training even if not a cop. Ukraine civilians training with cardboard cut outs of weapons cause their population was not armed when invasion was imminent. I wonder if gun ownership more a thing if Putin would have done it. Maybe I am thinking of the movie Red Dawn? In addition to crime some feel they have to defend themselves against, we have wild animals. Gators, bears, wolves, coyotes, rattlesnakes.. Keeping distance the first response. But you don’t want them to take the goats you are raising. Even then there are rules limiting how much action you can take. You may have to put your own injured animal down fast. We have natural parks so we have reserved a fair bit of space so bears can just be. If I were victim of a violent crime I might reconsider now our son is 18. I don’t know what good it would do locked up. And most places you can’t bring it inside. So probably not even then. People who have guns often have more than 1. So a lot of people don’t have any.
As an American I’m surprised by the ski and shoot category at the olympics. Why? Why would anyone not in a James Bond movie need to do that? I was in China and we saw the armored cash vehicles dropping off bags and it had 6-8 soldiers with assault rifles out following the hotel staff person to wherever she was taking the cash to secure it. I was shocked. We just have a couple of people with regular guns in U.S. staffing those vehicles. I did not think of Beijing as a place I would see military carrying assault rifles in public in a group.
Makes me laugh about luggage allowances...they weigh the baggage & make a big thing about "overweight bags"....but they don't weigh the passengers. It seems perfectly ok for passengers to be several pounds overweight, & not be charged additional $ for that?
Gosh, John...after that cream cheese bagel I'd be needing two seats I reckon...🙃🥯🥯😆
It is pronounced "spoke anne".
Spokane is pronounced, spoh-CAN.
Well, I have to admit my husband and I have over a dozen guns. But we’re really nice, I promise.
Oh, dear. Brits who have emigrated to NZ recounting their impressions of the US. I'm pleasantly surprised they disabused themselves of the popular notions and enjoyed the US.
Nothing beats travelling to the United States. The people are friendly and the service is fantastic. Don't be a small mind, it's tiresome. America demands a wide frontal cortex and you need to relax and enjoy it. Brits and Kiwis are often too tightly-wound to get past their preconceptions until they realise the US is just like home but on steroids.
Grilled cheese? 😊🤗❤❤
That's the one, Lesley!! (Bloody hormonal jelly brain....🙃😆) xx
@ItsaDrama 👍😁💌
Anyone in the West who believes media need an education in information gathering.
"British couple". Time to be Kiwis I think?
🥰🇳🇿Thank you, Jerry!!
You took your boots and socks off in the plane ?!☹️ You would be getting off lightly if sll you caught was fungal infection - - - -
Spo-CANN. Not Spo-CANE.. Spokane.Spo-CANN
Got fed up listening your Life story
CANADA IS IN AMERICA YOU WENT TO THE USA WHICH IS IN AMERICA AS WELL
Blah Blah Blah .....yeah we know.
Calm down Dave you'll give your braincell a stroke.
actually we don’t call ourselves united states of americans. we say Americans. canada is Canadians
OMG! So glad you survived your jaundice of the phalanges!!! And the murder and mayhem that is the US! (I'm joking, American neighbours!!) Oh, and by the way, when you're at the back of the plane, you pop your carry ons into the first available overhead bin, then you can be out of your seats and halfway up the plane before the doors open and escape is much quicker! (Happened to me several times which means I'm last off because my carry on is somewhere totally removed from me!) (and I can't remember where it was deposited)