As an American, most of these observations do not apply to all of Americans. There is huge difference between East and West coast, Midwest, Southern regions etc. I lived in Pacific Northwest for over 20 years, which was very different from where I grew up and currently live in Ohio.
@@jaceh5109absolutely. Birmingham AL and Gulf Shores AL aren't the same. Fayetteville and Jonesboro AR aren't the same. Olive Branch MS isn't the same as Grenada MS. Miami and Pensacola feel different. NYC and rural NY are really different.
I don't know about that but walking into one from 105F (in Arizona) is very unpleasant to me. I feel like I need to carry a parka when I go grocery shopping. I keep my A/C at home around 76F in the daytime and that would be fine but I know the stores keep theirs lower.
@@BTinSF The day it hit 122F I was working in downtown Phoenix, walking into the air conditioned building I worked in was the best feeling ever, when we went out to lunch there were bats and birds dying on the sidewalk from the heat.
@@OneRandomVictory Depends where you live. I find 76 quite comfortable in Arizona where the humidity is maybe 5% but suffocating in Florida where it's 95%. "Dry heat" is a real thing.
Living in a town or neighborhood where you " don't have to lock your doors " , means that you live in a low property crime area where people respect eachother's home as there castle , and where I live it is a stand your ground state or a FAFO state as we call it. So if you enter someone's home uninvited you are very likely to get shot.
My dad left something in a rental car (in Chicago!!!) and the woman who got the car after us mailed his items back to him. She drove from Chicago to Texas and realized one of the bags wasn’t hers. Looked inside for an address and phone number and made sure my dad got his items. ❤
I left my wallet in a Uber and when they picked up another Rider they turn my wallet into the driver and the driver after work drove my wallet back to me❤
A similar thing happened to me and my son a few month’s ago. He was taking me by plane to my brother’s (and his uncle’s) funeral. The airline didn’t fly into our final destination,so we needed to rent a car at the St. Louis airport for a two and a half hour drive. He was escorting me because of my limited mobility. I use a rollator walker that needed to have a car with a large enough trunk to handle our luggage and walker. He tried several cars before deciding on one that would work the best while I waited some distance away. We were at least an hour down the road when he realized that he had left his suit hanging in one of the rental cars that he’d been considering. We drove back thinking our chances were very slim that we would recover the suit; but the next person to rent the car returned it to the desk. It was waiting for us when we arrived. GOOD PEOPLE ARE SUCH A BLESSING !!! ❤️
It amazes me how people say they realize how insanely huge the USA is and then generalize the entire thing based on the tiny portion they saw for a fraction of time
Your 24 hour clock, is our military time, they use this. But regular American citizens, it's either AM (morning hours, 12:01 in the morning until noon) or PM (12:01 mid day, until midnight) & the clocks, and all other electronics reflect this. So your concern about not waking up to the alarm clock, no, you'd set it to wake you at 8AM, for example.
Checks are NOT a common thing in the US anymore. At least not for millennials and younger. Older generations might still use checks though. Also, certified checks might be used for large purchases like cars or houses. Speaking of cars, while a lot of people do lease (rent) cars, most people finance or buy out right.
There is a lot of stuff in some of these videos that are way off, checks being one of them. There is only one thing checks are used for in our household and that is rent for the house that we live in at the moment. The check makes a paper trail that way the landlord can not say we did not pay it. With cash there is no paper trail and someone who does not have a business and only owns one or two rental properties isn't going to be able to accept a debit card.
There are getting to be more stores in the US that don't take credit cards or they add $5 to your total if you do. They are wanting cash or checks. Guess it has to do with the upside down economy. Fine by me, whichever they want but they don't post it on the front door so you don't know until you're at the register and you didn't bring enough cash with you so you're out the extra charge, grrrr.
@@bettyir4302 I have not found that at all. There are plenty of independent or small shops like that. But I’ve yet to go into a major store that demanded cash or checks. I have seen signs asking for exact change if you’re using cash, as many stores are running low on change. Which is just more proof that cash is on the way out.
I landed in Las Vegas and took the airport train to the baggage claim. After getting off and walking down an escalator, I realized my wallet had fallen out of my purse. It took me 20 minutes to get back to the train. Of course it had left the station. I walked sadly to the information desk and asked it I could leave my phone number in case someone found it. The person said - no need and then produced my wallet. Someone on the train found it and turned it in. Nothing was missing.
I’ve left my wallet at the grocery store in the cart a couple of times and both times it has been turned in and nothing messed with! Even left my phone once!
A lot of people don’t bike because the distances are larger, the weather in a lot of places is freakin’ hot, cold or rainy and you are on the road with giant SUVs, trucks etc being driven by crazy drivers.
@@clydea.murphy2219 I've lived in Denver, St. Louis, and Charlotte. I actually used a bike as transport in Denver, I could have done the same in St. Louis. There is no way in hell I'd ever bike in Charlotte.
8:40 it's common to use the Am/Pm system for time in America. midnight to noon is Am and noon to midnight is Pm. thus it's divided into 2 12hour segments. but many people also use the 'military time' (24 hour clock) for reason not to do with the military.
when you need accuracy and the ability to make sure no one fucks up what time to meet if you say 13:00 hours there is zero possibility they show up at 1 am but if you say meet at 1 and forget to say am the whole plan gets fucked because of a time mistake
3:39 checks used to be very common, but it's a rare sight now. usually it's either cash, credit card, or debit card. you MIGHT get a check from your work, but only if you don't have direct deposit set up. companies do give checks for refunds though the mail, not in the store, but that's only because it's illegal to send cash though the mail.
Oh, that's because in Europe and the Military, they go by a 24 Hour clock, so 1PM will 13:00. That's all that is. I used to live in Germany, way back in the day and been there several times with work as well.@foreverdreamwithinadream6871
@foreverdreamwithinadream6871 I had to learn military time when I got hired at an Amazon warehouse, and learned when complaining to a friend from the Netherlands that he just learned as a matter of growing up how to read both 12- and 24-hour systems. Apparently there's places in Europe where clocks default to 24 hours instead of having AM/PM markers.
Am thinking she visited one tiny village and thinks it represents all of the US…prob cuz Ireland is so tiny you could fart and kill off half the population via the fumes 😂
The not locking your door thing is less about people freely being allowed in and out of your home but more about being able to trust the neighborhood to not have anyone who might try and commit a crime in your home taking advantage of your unlocked door.
Respect for what exactly? My hat stays on unless I need to be in a court of law or church, have my drivers license photo taken, or go to a fancy restaurant.
I once accidentally left my wallet in the restroom in the grocery store. I did not notice it until I got down the road and stopped at a gas station. Immediately went back and asked one of the cashiers if anyone has seen it, truly I was not expecting for it to be there or at least for it to be there with the money in it but she said yes ma’am A customer turned it in and she brought it right to me with the $700 and all of my cards intact.
@@lisaburpo4891 I went to the bank's atm / drive thru near my house and twice I found someone else's debit card it it, and both times it had, "do you want another transaction". I removed the card and gave it to the bank so they could contact the card's owner.
We have both kinds of telling time. Also, our saying that we don’t have to lock our doors is a saying for folks who live in smaller, more trusted areas, ie: small towns, villages, farms and ranches. People don’t just walk in, they knock or announce themselves before going thru the door.
Yeah, people don’t just walk into other people’s homes. And a 12 hour clock with AM and PM when you need to specify is the typical civilian usage. It’s also only in the past two or three decades I think that “military time”/24 hour format became widely understood by most people. Not like it was a secret but or complicated just something you rarely heard.
Ok. I'm watching this 3 months later. I live in Arizona. It gets SO hot in the summer. You would think you have come to the surface of the sun. Like in F Temps get to 120. Almost 50 C° . When you go inside everywhere here there is almost a 50° temp drop. I have a blanket in my car just for the summer Temps!
5:25 bike usage is more common in cities and large towns. this is because of the density of the area so it's easy to travel the shorter distances by bike, especially in high traffic areas that have frequent stops. In smaller town (especially in more rural area) things are much more spread out, so bike usage isn't as common. you still might see some, but they are for exercising, not just travel. bikes are required to travel on roads and not sidewalks (reserved for pedestrians only). they have to travel with the flow of traffic, not against it. and they have to use hand signals to let drivers know their intentions. they can go to the front of the lines at stop lights, but they can't block traffic. you are also required to wear protective gear (like helmets and pads). and in some states or towns you have to register you bike with the traffic department (this isn't universal, it depends on the state and/or city). bikes are allowed on most roadways, but not interstates (as the traffic travels at such high speeds) additionally, bikes aren't allowed in drive thru's.
Some places have bike lanes, which is nice! In my mountainous rural area, we have narrow roads with a drop-off into a ditch at the shoulder. Besides, if I did bike into town I'd have a very steep uphill ride on a narrow winding road back. I'll take the car.
We were having a bit of a heatwave recently and my husband and I headed over to nearby Lover's Point, Pacific Grove (beautiful place to chill, BTW), and while we were there, a guy lost his phone. It had a case with a built in wallet and his driver's license, credit cards, ATM card, everything was in it. A nearby person was kind enough to show him how to track it with his tablet and it was moving. So, now we all think that it's stolen. Don't take it for granted that a decent person will turn your stuff in, especially in a tourist area. In San Francisco, don't leave as much as a phone charger in your car because someone will break in and steal it--no joke! But most of us are decent and will do the right thing. Anyway, this guy drove off to track his phone...to the address listed on his driver's license. A couple had found it and saw a local address so they drove over to personally deliver it. Nothing was missing. He came back as we were leaving and told us. He's sending them a gift card as a thank you, which is appropriate.
A lot of Americans live pay-check to pay-check so having an extra hundred dollars in the bank is a God send especially in these hard times. Dress codes don't apply to a lot of places, but it reflects our own self-respect on how we dress-some people don't care. Taking hats off in restaurants, church, etc is a sign of respect.
This! This, to me, is more representative of the 'real Americans' (working class) that I know. They have to watch their spending, don't live in half-million dollar houses or get DoorDash often (or ever). The videos Lewis shows are rich people or tourists living the high life.
I grew up in a metropolitan area of 1.5 million people but for the last five years I've been living in a small town and I never lock my door the general consensus around here in this town of 1,500 people is that at least 95% of all the households around here have a loaded gun it's a pretty big deterrent LOL
I bet you have at least one or two meth heads living somewhere not too far away. I'd still lock my door, at least when not home. I have a vacation place 20 miles outside Tucson, AZ and we have very little crime in our community but the meth heads drive from Tucson sometimes. Also we have the occasional "bad" teenagers.
@@EricGoad I often don't lock the doors at either of my places (San Francisco--in a high rise condo with on-site security staff--and a Tucson exurb where there's very little crime) when I'm there, but always when I leave also. Even in Tucson, where I'm 40 miles from the border, we have illegal border crossers sometimes wandering the neighborhood.
@@BTinSF Well there's your problem, of course you're going to have bad company only 20 minutes outside of Tucson! I lived in the Prescott area until just a couple months ago, which is basically Arizona's biggest "small" community if you ask me, and the places where it's unwise to leave doors unlocked are only near certain places, such as bars, rehab centers, gas stations/small convenience stores, homeless hangouts, apartments, and sketchy/ghetto locations, basically everywhere that mentally unstable and impoverished people tend to frequent. If you're close enough to a major city to get cold groceries, then you're not at a safe distance to even have the thought of leaving the door unlocked.
@@ShawnF6FHellcat Wow. So you're saying it's unsafe to live in a city or a suburb or, like me, an exurb. So that pretty much just leaves the middle of nowhere--which, if you do have trouble from criminals or health issues or whatever means you're kind of up sh_ts creek. At least where I am there's a hospital not too far away and decent coverage by the Pima County Sheriff's Dept and the local fire department. Also the only actual crime I've heard about, besides wandering border crossers trying to get to Tucson, are an occasional crazy old desert rat going bonkers or predations by a few local teens.
I'm American, and I often wear long-sleeved shirts (light material) on a really hot summer day. It insulates, but if the ambient temperature is close to 37C/98.6F and the sun's beating down, it might be cooler than direct exposure to the sun plus I'm avoiding sunburn. Then if I walk into a cold store, I've got long sleeves to insulate me from that. The sleeves don't help the sweat evaporate (which is how sweat actually cools you down), but if the humidity is high enough, it's not going to evaporate anyway.
A lot of the things that she claims are common in the States are not really that common. However, it’s true that the things she cites do happen in the States. For instance, some people do write checks, but it’s really not common. You might get a bill in the mail that requires you to write a check and mail it back, but usually people buy things in stores with a credit card or cash. PayPal, Venmo, and Cash App are accepted at some smaller vendors and even a few larger vendors like Home Depot. Some places let you pay with a QR code. Also, I don’t know anyone in the States that leases their car, but the manufacturers advertise leases heavily, and yeah, it could be a good deal if the terms are right. I guess what I’m saying is take her videos with a grain of salt, but also subscribe to her videos because they are entertaining.
Of course some people lease cars! That's how they change their cars every 2-3 years. One thing you can't do is generalize... there are over 330 million people in the US - not everyone does the exact same thing.
I thought she said Americans rent their cars, which is a different thing than lease. And makes absolutely no sense so she must mean lease. Which is also not what everyone does but truer than rentals anyway.
I have 2 friends that have only lease cars . They get a different/new car every 3 yrs . Im just different and wanted a pic-up truck, so I bought it instead of leasing.
People are definitely more friendly in the US. If I spend 10 minutes in a queue in America... I have made a new friend. In EU or UK, I have learned not to talk or smile at people. The reaction is typically a look like I'm crazy. I'm a human, you're a human... can't i smile at you? Might be the only smile that person got all week.
My mom was a perpetual smiler in all countries and in all circumstances. She traveled a lot with my dad and had a rough time of it in some countries: Iran (!), France, Germany, UK... She never could understand that people thought she was crazy!😂
That's sad. I live in America, and I smile at people all of the time. People always smile back, and sometimes we share a word. It lifts one's spirits to share a smile, or to share pleasantries.
People here in the Southeast also have a habit of waving at people we meet while driving, you pick your first finger or two up off the steering wheel while nodding as you pass, it has fallen out of practice with the younger generation but most older people still do it, a lovely tradition.
I'm from Florida and one of my best friends i met in a store. I gave my doctor a ride to her car dealership last week after my appointment. Just be kind!!!
11:34 there are casual dress codes in America. it's normal for jeans and t-shirt (or dresses for women) or better dressing. we look down on people that wear pajamas or the like or clothes that are too revealing (in public). we feel that these people are ill dressed for the situation and judge them harshly, but usually keep quiet about it. we even make fun of them on the internet with websites dedicated to this. additionally, some business DO have required dress codes and will bar people from entering. these are usually fancy (or high end) business.
Checks, Bikes and time: Checks are a thing for government assistance for the first one/if you don't take three minutes to set up direct deposit. Other than that, we'll use cashier's checks for rent in some circumstances, but usually money orders or account transfer. Other than thst, it's very old people, or a payment from a business that doesn't keep cash on hand, such as an office paying you for a service or delivery. Bikes vary by location. Portland has separate bike lanes on all the downtown streets. Time, normal watch will say 8pm if it's night, 8am if it's morning. Military time is a 24 hour clock. 00:00-23:59, like, 3AM is said out loud as "O Three hundred hours".
I don’t know where she’s living, but almost everything she’s said sounds very strange to me, and if you hear about people doing the things she says the response would be, “that’s weird”. Where I live, we don’t lock our doors except at night, but we’re really rural and just about everyone is armed.
Same. Small towns are kinda great. Back in my grandparents day they sometimes didn’t even lock up at night. It also helps to get to know your neighbors that way everyone looks out for each other
Was a camp counselor in WY one summer. On weekends we would stay with different host families. One of the counselors was from Miami. He would get in trouble for locking the vehicle and bringing the keys inside. In that small town, the folks left their keys in the ignition! They didn’t lock their doors either.
Same here. We only lock at night when we are asleep. We're rural also and besides the possibility that we're armed is that we have a large, loud German Shepherd who is ironically probably the most valuable thing in the house, lol. You would really need to be desperate to break in at our place. The only thing of value you'd find for your trouble would be the thing that bites you in the a**, lol.
If you come to the US and visit Ohio, you'll see us switching from heat to A/C in the same day...we can get some pretty big swings in temperature from early morning to late afternoon. Office buildings and Retail stores REALLY crank up the A/C...and if you don't carry a lot of extra weight, you WILL get chilly. I've always hated the overuse of it because while it might feel good initially getting out of the heat, you pay for it by the feeling of being hit with a blast furnace when you walk back outside!
In reference to what she said about school uniforms, It is not always the case anymore that only private school kids wear uniforms, the public school district I live in has kids up through 8th grade wear uniforms. They are not as formal,(no ties or suit jackets and girls can wear slacks and shorts like the boys wear), but they do need to be certain colors and styles. I think it was started here to help stop bullying and to eliminate kids from poorer areas not having name brand clothes.
I'm from the US and if I ever go to Europe, I'm absolutely going to make, strange, small requests of the wait staff just to test these stereotypes. I won't feel bad about it either b/c apparently the 20% tip I'm going to give at the end of the dinner is baller.
@@davidstephan5116 I find it hilarious that you're trying to big time me but your comment history shows that just before this you made a comment about how you've been shopping for an RV. You do know that we don't live in those here?
We use 12-hour clocks. Midnight to noon is 12:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., and then from noon to midnight is 12:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. The 24-hour clock is generally used for the military, thus being called military time. But it is also used in business like trucking.
Lol he has me cracking up when he said you guys jumbled it. The practice of going month/day/year was invented in the U.K as a way to make accounting/filing more efficient. It is technically still used in the UK as well but the common practice reverted back to day/month/year. While us in the USA kept it because the test results proved it was more efficient back in the day.
@@shiichan32 the soccer is the player. not the sport. the sport is football. americans misunderstood and thought it was the sport. yes, the English specifically (not the Brits) coined the term, but it meant the player. the soccer.
@@TheMonkeyVthat’s incorrect. The word “soccer” was coined in the UK in the 1800’s and was used to call the sport up until around 1980 when the term “football” was more commonly adopted over soccer. In 1863 the “Football Association” was established in Britain that included many variations of ball sports where the official variation of soccer/football was called “association football.” But a similar variation of the same sport “rugby football” was shortened to “rugby” around the same time to distinguish itself as a stand-alone sport. Meanwhile “association football” was then shortened to “soccer” to distinguish itself as ITS own stand-alone sport. The term soccer comes from a slang abbreviation of the word “association,” which was adapted to: “assoc,” “assoccer”and then “soccer.” So it’s not the player but the actual sport. The sport was called “soccer” in the UK longer than the US have called it that. The term was brought to the US with the sport while still being used in the UK, and is the only reason the US calls it soccer. If the UK would have been calling the sport “football” exclusively during the time they brought it to the US that’s what would have been used.
I believe she was in Cincinnati, Ohio? It is not a small city. I think she either never got far from the neighbor hood she was in and applies what she observed to the whole country ! Some sounds just made up, no Ohio is not all this either. Do you have fans in other countries
I was going to say the same thing, there are 11 CITIES bigger than the UK alone, how does she expect someone to ride a bike that far, she's cuckoo. And I don't know of anywhere in the US that doesn't have bike paths, she apparently has never really traveled the US much.
When I was growing up in Alabama we didn't lock our doors we will leave the keys in our vehicles and then we moved to Illinois and we would have to get up and lock it because my mother didn't lock the doors I guess to each has their own but we lock our doors these days even if we're armed to the T😅
House Alarm Systems are actually fairly common in the US. The biggest home security company is ADT. what they typically do is install sensors on every door and window in your house, so whenever the Alarm is armed and one of these sensors is broken, the alarm goes off. Some set ups include internal cameras that are also set to detect moveme whenever you're not at home. (In this case you'd set your alarm to Arm - Away, otherwise, like at night, you'd set it to Arm - Stay). These alarm systems are also usually connected to video camera doorbells. A popular video doorbell brand is Ring. But there are several others. There are several other security company ax well. We had an ADT system for many years, but the system was becoming outdated, so we switched to something else, and it's a much simpler system to operate. It has a touch screen main unit panel that is extremely simple to use. But you can use smart device Aps to work the system. Whenever an alarm is tripped, you usually have 5 minutes to deactivate it before the company is notified and them sending out police,,fire, or EMS services depending on the situation. The company will call you during this period to see what the problem is.
17 years being a police officer and I can tell you that people lock their doors. Now in the teeny tiny rural areas where there is not much crime. People enjoy the brag about the fact that crime is so low they don't have to lock their cars and lock their house doors. But most of those people really do like them. But it doesn't mean that people are allowed to just come on in. You still have etiquette and you must knock or ring the doorbell. Then the homeowner has to come to the door and let them in. It's just absurd to think that we just let people in. But of course is caveats to everything.
The temperature where i live varies greatly from season to season. I have seen it as hot as 104°f (40°c) and as cold as 15 below (-26°c) The climate in the northeast is unforgiving at times. It is common to see temperatures between 5°f and 95°f yearly. The other numbers are the extreme ends i have seen in either direction. It is for this reason americans put an emphasis on climate control. Even areas you would not think get cold like texas for instance, can get well below the freezing point in some areas.
In NYC ppl lease cars alot. Loads of bikes here especially since Citibikes came to town. But in rural areas it's too far for biking everywhere. Checks are becoming a thing of the past. But takes awhile for systems to spread in the US because of it's size. They say "14 hundred" in the army,only armed forces use it. Malls don't always u shirtless, and some places will say you need shoes. There are we places you need to dress up to go in will say only black tie or something similar. More In cities in fancy places. Yup, we are nicer!!
My father is in his 80's. He does not use computers. He will easily leave his cellphone in the house and go outside in the yard without it. He will not answer it during meal hours or after 9 pm at night, His answer is just because you are disrespectful does not mean he has to accept it. He still uses checks because he does not trust digital means of payment. No debit cards and he demands his SS payments as a check as well. My aunt leases cars, my father does not. He buys them outright.
A lot of people lease cars, esp in cities. I still get paid with a check and when I get Christmas tips, at least 50% of customers write checks. Even if it's only $15-$20.
The average house here in my area (Utah) is selling for $650k. Many are a lot more than that. So no, 1 million doesn't sound like that much to me. Yes, it's a ridiculous amount that many of us can't afford...but it's becoming the norm around the country. As for checks...except on very rare occasions for a company/bill that specifically requires you pay by check, I haven't had to use one. It's been about 20 years since they were commonly used for everyday things like groceries, gas, etc.
You're about 100K too high on that average price. Easy to Google the average, and yes, I'm aware there are specific areas in Utah higher than others. I'm also in Utah.
I'm in a place where 650k will get you at least 2 nice sized houses, so 1 million does sound like alot to me, but we are talking about giving away a million and not investing that million in a house. That makes it more outrageous. That said, people's reactions or lack thereof may have more to do about the amount of times they have heard these types of stories and less to do with the money amount.
@@pauladuncanadams1750you can almost double those figures in 2024. I develop properties around Santa Monica and surrounding areas. It’s gotten insane as of late
The way I see it for the month day year is because there are 12 months, up to 31 days, and the years in thousands so it does go smallest to biggest number wise. I’ll never understand day month year. Seeing 31/12/23 just looks weird instead of 12/31/23
There fact is, we say month-day-year, like January 1, 2022. The Europeans may say it in ascending order, 1 January 2022, but I think that is a change, probably a response to their use of 01/01/2022.
It is mostly businesses that lease, not rent cars. Rentals are for vacations or business trips. Most people buy their cars. There are rich, middle and poor people here, so the value of money is subjective.
We use a 12 hr clock but afternoon it is PM and from midnight on till noon is AM. 12AM is midnight and 12PM is noon. 1AM is the night time and 1PM is afternoon.
In America it is s sign of respect for men to remove their hat while eating. My husband is 76 and always removes his hat. Depends on your up bringing. I am not sure where she goes to visit but it sounds like she is out of touch with the common man, imo. She visits large cities and not the everyday towns of the US. Not a criticism, just an observation.
Yeah, my family is the same. The men will wear a hat in the house, but never at the table. They also take it off for a funeral procession, the pledge of allegiance, the National anthem, or for church.
I am in the Washington, DC area and I mostly see older people write checks but few businesses accept them. you can pay bills with them. Some of my relatives will send checks in cards( birthday, Christmas, Anniversary, etc) but they are all over 75yo
Let me sum up American culture for you. It has to be convenient and comfortable. I live in Florida and I only turned my air conditioner off for two days in past year. It just runs continuously. 😊
9:46 In the smallish town I grew up in, not only did we not lock our doors, we'd leave our car keys in the ignition. My house was a little ways off from the center of town, but even the people in the denser areas wouldn't be worried about locking anything.
The thing I agree most with is the AC. I keep our AC on at 75 F which is 24 C. We live in an area where it can get up to 115 F (46 C) but average at 110 F (43 C) in the summer. I have a physical condition...I don't sweat. I can literally drop dead from heat exhaustion. Having AC is truly a life saving thing for me. Plus I hate bring sticky, lol!
No where in the US averages over 100F in the Summer, except Death Valley, even then it like right at 100F. Yeah Phoenix can have a long stretch of days with highs around 110F and most of the southern(east and west) US can get up to a 110+F high in the summer.
Dates- If you’re going to schedule something on your calendar like an appointment, it makes more sense to say the month first so that you have a starting point of reference. If you say the date first, you have to continue waiting for more information to be able to get to the right location. If I say are you available march…. As I am reviewing my schedule, you can immediately get to the right month to reference so when I say the date, 23rd, you are already in the correct vicinity to then find the correct day. It makes way more sense to put have the month prior to the date. It’s like with the game bingo- you don’t say 7 B, you say 7 B. So you know which column to look at first then what number you’re looking for. It’s easier when narrowing down the location. March so now I know which month to start with, then the 23rd. It’s logistically more efficient.
L3WG I absolutely LOVE your videos! I live in southwest Louisiana. And if you ever do visit this way, please contact your Louisiana fans so we can all tell you the best places and things that don’t make it on the “tourism” brochures. The best things in the south are usually small town things and are off the beaten path! Keep doing what you’re doing man.
Just want to say hi to Louisiana love it there. I have friends in Longview LA. I live in Maryland and going to Louisiana is like a different country in the USA. Love everything about it all but the heat and bugs. Food is the best. Haven’t been for a couple years. Very friendly and nice people that have each others backs.
I use a check each month for my rent. because they wanted $3.50 for the automatic payment fee, and it's less than 60 feet from my front door to the office dropbox.
My former husband left a bag with his plane ticket, wallet with almost $10,000 in cash at a stall where had been browsing ( this was many years ago, before he had even gotten home the man who found it called me and asked where he needed to bring it and could I meet him, so after my husband got home I asked him if he had everything, his eyes got huge and he patted himself all over as he realized what he had lost, I told him where to go meet the guy, he was there, handed over the bag with all the contents and refused to accept a reward for returning it, he said he was an ordained minister and it was only right for him to return it. My husband had been going to an auction, that’s why he had such a large amount of cash.
9:30 People saying they live somewhere that they don't have to lock their door just means everyone in the community respects and watches out for eachother's property. No one is just coming in and out of our front door lmao. Some places here in the south will generally leave their garage door up when they are home almost like an invitation for guests and neighbors to come on in.
Also, just to clarify the "emotional support animal" thing in the US, it's the same as she said. There is no such thing legally as an "emotional support animal", they are pets. People used to think that calling their pet an "emotional support animal" meant they could take them everywhere and the business had to abide by the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires businesses to accept service animals). But that has been stricken down because they are untrained. Stores have started to push back and tell people to keep their pets at home.
The fair housing act LEGALLY protects owners of emotional support animals and so does the air carrier access act. Some states recognize emotional support animals and have laws in place. To say they are not legally recognized is incorrect
One of the things i find funny about our relationship with bicycles is loading them up onto a vehicle to drive somewhere to go on a bike ride. I understand why, but it is still funny to me. 8:00pm = 20:00 i do know military time, but i have to do the mental math to convert it to am/pm. Insulation works both ways. If you managed to cool your house (say fans bringing in cooler evening air), wouldn't it remain a bit cooler during the day? (Close your windows before it gets warm and have fans circulating the air.) Admittedly it is a dry heat at that time of year but summer temps where i live can easily go from below 10°c to over 37.8°c (50°f-100°f) or even over 110° during a day and i don't have a/c, just fans.
When was Diane's visit made? Like 20 years ago? When is the last time anybody in America used a check? Maybe occasionally someone uses them to pay bills but I don't think stores even take checks anymore.
The unlocked house thing is more that in safe, rural areas, (less and less these days) it's taken as a point of pride that you don't need to lock up to be safe. People still knock before coming in, they don't just walk in before you let them in haha 😂 but yeah, still starting to happen less and less as sht gets crazier in the world. I also bet that us having the ability to protect ourselves and our families and neighbors by being armed and properly trained in arms use, helps us to be able to do this, on the off chance that someone does break in uninvited trying to hurt ya or whatnot. 😊
The change in temperature is something that so normal but I can easily see as odd. My twin daughters are 8 years old and during the summer when we go to a restaurant or a grocery store I always bring two light jackets for my girls. As an adult it doesn't faze me but my daughters get uncomfortably cold in mainly restaurants and grocery stores. I think it is even more exaggerated because in the summer we all wear shorts and t-shirts to deal with the heat and then most places indoors are dramatically cooler.
4:14 in some of the bigger chain stores, you might be able to use paypal, venmo, apple pay, galaxy pay, google pay or some other type of electronic payment system.
16:37 just about every company has a 'lost and found' for stuff that got left behind. if this happens, you just have to go to customer service desk and ask there. if someone turned it in, it'll be there. it's very common and people are usually very good about turning things in. even things like phones and wallets.
We write the date the way we speak the date. We say August 10, 2023 so we write it 8/10/23, which makes much more sense than 10/8/23 because we wouldn’t normally say 10 August
In the USA you can't bring your pet to the hospital (unless it's a seeing eye dog) but the hospital has their own pets! They have people who have specially trained dogs/cats that visit with everyone in the hospital. When I was in Cardiac Critical Care I was visited by a standard poodle and a cavalier king charles spaniel. They did make me feel better!
In the US service dogs and therapy dogs can go in to hospitals. Emotional support animals are mostly a scam people use to get their pets into rental housing. But they don’t have any other rights
Especially cats, their purr is helpful for their healing, so it tracks that it should help a patient❤ But a dog or cat would be comforting to someone who is sick(unless allergies is the problem)😂 Kinda like a distraction to your problems😊
I think it's different for each hospital. When my mom was in the hospital, I was allowed to bring our pet Maltese who is not a therapy animal to visit her. Even was encouraged to bring him to visit my friend's mother - we had to show proof of vaccinations (rabies, distemper, parvo, etc.). Thankfully, he's very well behaved and calm.
My wife uses a mobility service dog to pull her in her wheelchair. As you can imagine she can't use small or medium size breeds so she usually has a mastiff breed though her current one is a 150 pound Anatolian Shepherd. He goes everywhere from restaurants to dr appointments.
I think it’s a cultural thing. We try not to react to how much people make or even ask them. And we never really ask how much someone spent on something. Giving a million to a fake person in Nigeria does shock me but I wouldn’t react much bc that would feel rude
About the clock thing - we tell time by the 12 hr clock and we differentiate with am for morning and pm for evening. Only the military uses the 24 hr clock, so 15:00 = 3 pm. As for military time, I believe they would call 8 am “oh 800” and 6 pm “18 hundred”
I agree with your assessment on a lot of money! A million is definitely a lot! Not a ton of people use checks anymore. Some places actually don't take personal checks anymore because businesses don't want to pay the monthly charges associated with a check guarantee service to justify the number of checks they get. It's a dying out form of payment, but it IS still out there. After noon, the time changes from A.M. to P.M. (Latin for 'Ante Meridiem'' or "before midday" and 'Post Meridiem' or "after midday." At night our phones show, "8:00 P.M." and in the morning they would show, "8:00 A.M."
One thing about the USA is that it is so large that there a many variations on most of the things she mentions. There is so much flexibility that it’s hard to generalize.
8:25 Usually military uses the 24 hour clock but for most everyone else it's the 12 hour clocks with AM and PM; AM is 12:00am (midnight) to 11:59am and PM is 12:00pm to 11:59pm.
On a digital clock 18:00 shows as 6:00PM, and 6:00 shows as 6:00AM. An analog clock does not indicate AM or PM; you just have to know. The ground floor in America is usually partially below ground and one level below the main entrance.
Well, how about this. I went to a job interview once and when I was on my way back to my car I found a man's wallet. Jam full of cash and alo of other things that would be a hassle to lose. I took it into the office of the folks I'd just interviewed with. A glance at his driver's license told me he lived much closer to their location and he could retrieve it much more easily from there. They said they would find him and took it off my hands. The situation was completely normal to everyone, and I believe the man who lost it got it back.
I wouldn't have trusted anyone else not to lighten it of at least some of the cash so I would have called him and let him come to my house and get it (our met him somewhere near my house).
@@BTinSF My husband lost his wallet at work, and he got it back with everything intact minus the cash, but all things considered he was glad he got his wallet and considered the lost cash a reward for turning the wallet in.
@@squoctopus He worked construction he would be at 6 to 7 different builders any given day; he had no expectations of getting the wallet back because he didn't even know where he lost it. It just happened when he went back to the same builder the wallet was turned in to the construction supervisor.
@@AZHITW. Well he's a good guy with a good attitude. He's right that the wallet was more important and he probably would have rewarded the person returning it. I'm glad he got his wallet back but I'm sorry someone stole his money.
The closest my kids ever came to a uniform is there was certain colors that were part of the uniform but you could wear anything that fit into the appropriate colors. I’m not sure I explained that well 😂
Most of what she says is area or generational specific. Older people tend to use checks more than younger. But those of us who embraced technology will use it rather than checks. Riding bikes is more in cities as they have bike lanes which smaller cities and towns don’t. People who don’t lock their doors live in small town or the country. People don’t just walk into someone’s house, unless you are expected or family or very close friends.
Talking about temperatures, air conditioning, heating, etc., in Texas (except for the summer where it's just freaking hot!), we wear layers, like a tank top with a hoodie or whatever, that you can take on and off depending on the current temperature outside or in a business.
9:20 majority of people lock their doors in the us.. i live in a wooded area miles away from any actual road and even i lock my door😭 the people here are just too crazy
Today is April 9th. (4/09/2023) that's just how we speak. Most of us just say the month first and we write it that way as a result of our speaking pattern. It has nothing to do with shortest to longest.
Heeheeheee he calls them trousers. 🥰😁🤭 Also, ESA (emotional support animals) are NOT allowed in pet restrictive places other than residencies (apartment or rental home) that do not allow pets. Only SERVICE animals are allowed access to grocery stores, most malls, airports/planes, hospitals, and schools. I have a service dog and there are a LOT of fakes out here in the US. The dog has to be VERY extensively trained and actually perform a trained response to assist the handler. Because of fakes and abuse of the term, ESAs are no longer allowed in the cabin of airplanes. A lot of people abuse the fact that it isn't legal to ask probing questions about what a service dog does. So if you buy a cheap fake "service dog" vest on amazon and take your dog to the grocery store, the manager can ask "is that a service dog?" And you can go "yup!" And they can't do anything to make you prove that. There is no official federally recognized registry or identification card or anything for it either so they can't even ask to see a card or anything for them. 🤷♀️ if the dog is CLEARLY a fake (barking, being disruptive, aggressive, urinating on merchandise, being a hazard to people walking like jumping up on people, pulling food off shelves, etc) they CAN get kicked out and reported. Impersonating a service animal can get your animal confiscated AND you can face fines of up to tens of thousands of dollars.
The calendar order makes sense for sorting based on date order, the month goes first the date then year, the computer and file naming will sort this way correctly, where day first would sort the first of January then the first of February order which doesn’t make sense
Obviously you never served. 8pm to me is 20 hundred (2000) to me. It is the same to all male members of my family and a few females as well. Pretty much all veterans I know can instantly convert the time into a 24 hr clock as well in their minds.
Emotional support animals are very different than a service dog. ESAs are not allowed in most places support dogs are. But yes, we have a lot of shops and stores that are pet friendly in the US. It is hilarious that she thinks only "fancy schools" wear uniforms. Lol! A lot of lower income schools, especially in a big city makes uniforms mandatory. But yes, mist of us do not have a uniform but we do have dress codes for our street clothes.
Have you seen the videos about emotional support kangaroos, alligators and lizards? Bravo to the store clerk in CA who would dare to not allow someone into their establishment with such a creature.
A lot of these people..from other countries, think the US is the same size as their country, and try to explain things where they are..not thinking, every state is like a separate country..
@@oldhag8139 exactly. I once replied that we are like 5 countries in one; the North, South, East, West and Midwest. All different cultures geography, foods, accents, etc...
For the school uniform point, as a child of two teachers, I heard a lot of the behind the scene stuff. I live in Utah and some public schools were testing uniforms several years back. Most parents opted their kids out by spring semester because they couldn't afford what the school required. The students also rebelled at having their fashion freedom taken away which caused a lot of tension. There's a common knowledge rule that if something is required, the establishment that sets the requirement has to supply it for free or at a reduced price. The price varies from area to area, and it is based on the average income for that area. The chosen sections that were testing the school uniforms were poorer areas, and the school was not offering the uniforms at a reasonable price so, in a nutshell, the students were getting reprimanded for not having a proper uniform because they couldn't afford one, but the school wasn't offering a uniform at a price the family could afford. The uniforms didn't last for more than three semesters.
So, I was in public school from Kindergarten through senior year, no uniforms. However, in the younger years, we had very strict rules around what shoes you wear in the gymnasium, and your parents had to buy "gym shoes" that were kept shiny and clean specifically for gym class. You had to change in and out of them again for that specific class. Heaven forbid you forget and wear them outside. But it was nice each year, because you get a brand new pair of sparkly clean shoes at the start of the school year.
I agree with you about the day/month/year thing. It does make sense. But as a native of the US, it'll go away when Imperial Units go away (and you know that's not going to happen). Edit to add: I'm cracking up about the time thing. The clock has AM and PM. So 8 at night is 8pm (post meridian). Only military use 24 hour time. And - gasp - many of us have clocks, you know, round ones with little hands? It's pretty easy to know if it's 8am or 8pm.
@@furbysmith3240and in Beverly Hills, some of their finest restaurants, and some people have small dogs with them. I personally hate it, but it happens
4:00 Mainly much older people still use checks; I'm 59 years old and I don't even remember the last time I used them, but I'm sure it's been at least 10+ years for me too.
People rarely wear pajamas to the store. It's not socially acceptable, however, you might find a younger person at a 24 hour store in their pajamas if they cover everything well. There are laws against wearing certain things like undergarments as clothing, or showing certain body parts.
One thing that all older elevator buildings used to do (hotels especially) is not have 13th floors. Not only because of superstitions but because no one wanted to stay on the 13th floor.
omg, going into stores that keep it crazy cold is soooo annoying. Not only do you freeze to death, but when you go outside again, it makes it even hotter then it was before, its a good way to get sick. Our stores have relaxed some with the temperatures, cause really if its like 40C outside, you go in a store and its like I dont know 20C..your freezing before you even walk 10 feet haha. It would also make people pass out going back outside being hit with such heat. I speaking about around were I am in Ontario, in Canada.
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As an American, most of these observations do not apply to all of Americans. There is huge difference between East and West coast, Midwest, Southern regions etc. I lived in Pacific Northwest for over 20 years, which was very different from where I grew up and currently live in Ohio.
As a northerner go to the south and it's completely different. Same vice versa.
@@m2hmghbAbsolutely! Even southern and northern Ohio are vastly different.
Right.
@@donnaneville192 that also applies here in Nevada as well. Vegas and Reno are massively different even though its the same state.
@@jaceh5109absolutely. Birmingham AL and Gulf Shores AL aren't the same. Fayetteville and Jonesboro AR aren't the same. Olive Branch MS isn't the same as Grenada MS. Miami and Pensacola feel different. NYC and rural NY are really different.
Dude I'm going to tell you right now, walking into an air-conditioned store from 90° F is one of the best feelings you will ever experience
I don't know about that but walking into one from 105F (in Arizona) is very unpleasant to me. I feel like I need to carry a parka when I go grocery shopping. I keep my A/C at home around 76F in the daytime and that would be fine but I know the stores keep theirs lower.
@@BTinSF The day it hit 122F I was working in downtown Phoenix, walking into the air conditioned building I worked in was the best feeling ever, when we went out to lunch there were bats and birds dying on the sidewalk from the heat.
@@BTinSF76 degrees is practically the oven for me if it's in the house. My AC never goes higher than 72.
@@OneRandomVictory Depends where you live. I find 76 quite comfortable in Arizona where the humidity is maybe 5% but suffocating in Florida where it's 95%. "Dry heat" is a real thing.
Living in a town or neighborhood where you " don't have to lock your doors " , means that you live in a low property crime area where people respect eachother's home as there castle , and where I live it is a stand your ground state or a FAFO state as we call it. So if you enter someone's home uninvited you are very likely to get shot.
My dad left something in a rental car (in Chicago!!!) and the woman who got the car after us mailed his items back to him. She drove from Chicago to Texas and realized one of the bags wasn’t hers. Looked inside for an address and phone number and made sure my dad got his items. ❤
I left my wallet in a Uber and when they picked up another Rider they turn my wallet into the driver and the driver after work drove my wallet back to me❤
And yes this was in and by Chicago Illinois
@@theresacavallaris2251 that’s amazing!! 🥹
A similar thing happened to me and my son a few month’s ago. He was taking me by plane to my brother’s (and his uncle’s) funeral. The airline didn’t fly into our final destination,so we needed to rent a car at the St. Louis airport for a two and a half hour drive. He was escorting me because of my limited mobility. I use a rollator walker that needed to have a car with a large enough trunk to handle our luggage and walker. He tried several cars before deciding on one that would work the best while I waited some distance away. We were at least an hour down the road when he realized that he had left his suit hanging in one of the rental cars that he’d been considering. We drove back thinking our chances were very slim that we would recover the suit; but the next person to rent the car returned it to the desk. It was waiting for us when we arrived. GOOD PEOPLE ARE SUCH A BLESSING !!! ❤️
That's so cool.
It amazes me how people say they realize how insanely huge the USA is and then generalize the entire thing based on the tiny portion they saw for a fraction of time
Yep!!
Or when they only go to SF and NYC and think they did the American experience
Your 24 hour clock, is our military time, they use this. But regular American citizens, it's either AM (morning hours, 12:01 in the morning until noon) or PM (12:01 mid day, until midnight) & the clocks, and all other electronics reflect this. So your concern about not waking up to the alarm clock, no, you'd set it to wake you at 8AM, for example.
Checks are NOT a common thing in the US anymore. At least not for millennials and younger. Older generations might still use checks though. Also, certified checks might be used for large purchases like cars or houses. Speaking of cars, while a lot of people do lease (rent) cars, most people finance or buy out right.
Us younger Boomers don’t use checks either. It’s rare if they are necessary, and I find them way outdated…irritating too.
There is a lot of stuff in some of these videos that are way off, checks being one of them. There is only one thing checks are used for in our household and that is rent for the house that we live in at the moment. The check makes a paper trail that way the landlord can not say we did not pay it. With cash there is no paper trail and someone who does not have a business and only owns one or two rental properties isn't going to be able to accept a debit card.
There are getting to be more stores in the US that don't take credit cards or they add $5 to your total if you do. They are wanting cash or checks. Guess it has to do with the upside down economy. Fine by me, whichever they want but they don't post it on the front door so you don't know until you're at the register and you didn't bring enough cash with you so you're out the extra charge, grrrr.
@@bettyir4302 I have not found that at all. There are plenty of independent or small shops like that. But I’ve yet to go into a major store that demanded cash or checks. I have seen signs asking for exact change if you’re using cash, as many stores are running low on change. Which is just more proof that cash is on the way out.
@@MelNel5they ate always necessary. You are too young to realize it yet.
I landed in Las Vegas and took the airport train to the baggage claim. After getting off and walking down an escalator, I realized my wallet had fallen out of my purse. It took me 20 minutes to get back to the train. Of course it had left the station. I walked sadly to the information desk and asked it I could leave my phone number in case someone found it. The person said - no need and then produced my wallet. Someone on the train found it and turned it in. Nothing was missing.
I’ve left my wallet at the grocery store in the cart a couple of times and both times it has been turned in and nothing messed with! Even left my phone once!
@@Sassyglbeautysuch a good feeling when that happens:) restores my faith in humanity:)
A lot of people don’t bike because the distances are larger, the weather in a lot of places is freakin’ hot, cold or rainy and you are on the road with giant SUVs, trucks etc being driven by crazy drivers.
Not to mention drunks
@@tonyleverett6917And a-wholes texting while driving.
And they get stolen…
I live in the St. Louis bistate area, we have many miles of bike trails through out that area!!
@@clydea.murphy2219 I've lived in Denver, St. Louis, and Charlotte. I actually used a bike as transport in Denver, I could have done the same in St. Louis. There is no way in hell I'd ever bike in Charlotte.
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it's common to use the Am/Pm system for time in America. midnight to noon is Am and noon to midnight is Pm. thus it's divided into 2 12hour segments. but many people also use the 'military time' (24 hour clock) for reason not to do with the military.
when you need accuracy and the ability to make sure no one fucks up what time to meet if you say 13:00 hours there is zero possibility they show up at 1 am but if you say meet at 1 and forget to say am the whole plan gets fucked because of a time mistake
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checks used to be very common, but it's a rare sight now. usually it's either cash, credit card, or debit card. you MIGHT get a check from your work, but only if you don't have direct deposit set up. companies do give checks for refunds though the mail, not in the store, but that's only because it's illegal to send cash though the mail.
I’m starting to doubt she has ever been to the U.S. 😂
At least not the America I know. lol
for real, so many half truths, exaggerations, or just out right wrong statements.
Oh, that's because in Europe and the Military, they go by a 24 Hour clock, so 1PM will 13:00. That's all that is. I used to live in Germany, way back in the day and been there several times with work as well.@foreverdreamwithinadream6871
@foreverdreamwithinadream6871 I had to learn military time when I got hired at an Amazon warehouse, and learned when complaining to a friend from the Netherlands that he just learned as a matter of growing up how to read both 12- and 24-hour systems. Apparently there's places in Europe where clocks default to 24 hours instead of having AM/PM markers.
@foreverdreamwithinadream6871 What are you on about...how the hell do you not know what military time is?
She really lives in her own American bubble!! Her explanations are ridiculous!!
Am thinking she visited one tiny village and thinks it represents all of the US…prob cuz Ireland is so tiny you could fart and kill off half the population via the fumes 😂
@@johns7283Maybe that's why she has brain fog about America😂💨
She’s definitely off the chain! 😂I’m not trying to be mean, but all her videos are really off about the US. She doesn’t make sense to me.
I couldn’t agree more!
@@natalieclem5517🤣🤣🤣 RIGHT
I’m not a fan of her videos. She doesn’t really seem to know what’s she talking about as far as a the US goes.
Agree.
The not locking your door thing is less about people freely being allowed in and out of your home but more about being able to trust the neighborhood to not have anyone who might try and commit a crime in your home taking advantage of your unlocked door.
Taking our hat off when we eat is a sign of respect
Respect for what exactly? My hat stays on unless I need to be in a court of law or church, have my drivers license photo taken, or go to a fancy restaurant.
Respect for your waitress? The busboy? F’ that. My hat stays on
@@onnanob Where ru from?
@@davidstephan5116 Why ru being so disrespectful ? Where ru from?
Who is getting the respect when I have no hat? What if the whole group is in hats?
I once accidentally left my wallet in the restroom in the grocery store. I did not notice it until I got down the road and stopped at a gas station. Immediately went back and asked one of the cashiers if anyone has seen it, truly I was not expecting for it to be there or at least for it to be there with the money in it but she said yes ma’am A customer turned it in and she brought it right to me with the $700 and all of my cards intact.
I left my purse in a restaurant in New Orleans and they actually ran down the street, and found me and returned it!
Wow
@@lisaburpo4891 I went to the bank's atm / drive thru near my house and twice I found someone else's debit card it it, and both times it had, "do you want another transaction". I removed the card and gave it to the bank so they could contact the card's owner.
dont do this in the hood you aint getting shit back lol
This woman generalize too much. The average American does NOT have millions, or billions in their bank account!
Don't believe this woman!
An American!
We have both kinds of telling time. Also, our saying that we don’t have to lock our doors is a saying for folks who live in smaller, more trusted areas, ie: small towns, villages, farms and ranches. People don’t just walk in, they knock or announce themselves before going thru the door.
If I see you wearing pj's in a store I am looking down on you. And I am American. Mainly just kids, teens and college kids wear pj's out to stores.
Like Ireland - am sure ALL their non-city locations don’t lick their doors
Oh 14 hundred hours is not said the oh part is ONLY for the morning hours - she a dumb tw@t (British slang)
We also don't need to lock our doors because we have guns
Yeah, people don’t just walk into other people’s homes.
And a 12 hour clock with AM and PM when you need to specify is the typical civilian usage. It’s also only in the past two or three decades I think that “military time”/24 hour format became widely understood by most people. Not like it was a secret but or complicated just something you rarely heard.
I live in a pretty safe neighborhood in the South. We usually have our doors unlocked during the day and locked overnight.
Ok. I'm watching this 3 months later. I live in Arizona. It gets SO hot in the summer. You would think you have come to the surface of the sun. Like in F Temps get to 120. Almost 50 C° . When you go inside everywhere here there is almost a 50° temp drop. I have a blanket in my car just for the summer Temps!
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bike usage is more common in cities and large towns. this is because of the density of the area so it's easy to travel the shorter distances by bike, especially in high traffic areas that have frequent stops. In smaller town (especially in more rural area) things are much more spread out, so bike usage isn't as common. you still might see some, but they are for exercising, not just travel.
bikes are required to travel on roads and not sidewalks (reserved for pedestrians only). they have to travel with the flow of traffic, not against it. and they have to use hand signals to let drivers know their intentions. they can go to the front of the lines at stop lights, but they can't block traffic. you are also required to wear protective gear (like helmets and pads). and in some states or towns you have to register you bike with the traffic department (this isn't universal, it depends on the state and/or city). bikes are allowed on most roadways, but not interstates (as the traffic travels at such high speeds)
additionally, bikes aren't allowed in drive thru's.
Some places have bike lanes, which is nice! In my mountainous rural area, we have narrow roads with a drop-off into a ditch at the shoulder. Besides, if I did bike into town I'd have a very steep uphill ride on a narrow winding road back. I'll take the car.
We were having a bit of a heatwave recently and my husband and I headed over to nearby Lover's Point, Pacific Grove (beautiful place to chill, BTW), and while we were there, a guy lost his phone. It had a case with a built in wallet and his driver's license, credit cards, ATM card, everything was in it. A nearby person was kind enough to show him how to track it with his tablet and it was moving. So, now we all think that it's stolen. Don't take it for granted that a decent person will turn your stuff in, especially in a tourist area. In San Francisco, don't leave as much as a phone charger in your car because someone will break in and steal it--no joke! But most of us are decent and will do the right thing. Anyway, this guy drove off to track his phone...to the address listed on his driver's license. A couple had found it and saw a local address so they drove over to personally deliver it. Nothing was missing. He came back as we were leaving and told us. He's sending them a gift card as a thank you, which is appropriate.
A lot of Americans live pay-check to pay-check so having an extra hundred dollars in the bank is a God send especially in these hard times. Dress codes don't apply to a lot of places, but it reflects our own self-respect on how we dress-some people don't care. Taking hats off in restaurants, church, etc is a sign of respect.
This! This, to me, is more representative of the 'real Americans' (working class) that I know. They have to watch their spending, don't live in half-million dollar houses or get DoorDash often (or ever). The videos Lewis shows are rich people or tourists living the high life.
YES ma'am, people do live pay day to pay day!
I grew up in a metropolitan area of 1.5 million people but for the last five years I've been living in a small town and I never lock my door the general consensus around here in this town of 1,500 people is that at least 95% of all the households around here have a loaded gun it's a pretty big deterrent LOL
I bet you have at least one or two meth heads living somewhere not too far away. I'd still lock my door, at least when not home. I have a vacation place 20 miles outside Tucson, AZ and we have very little crime in our community but the meth heads drive from Tucson sometimes. Also we have the occasional "bad" teenagers.
@@BTinSF I always lock when I leave but when I'm home I never do I live in northern Wisconsin
@@EricGoad I often don't lock the doors at either of my places (San Francisco--in a high rise condo with on-site security staff--and a Tucson exurb where there's very little crime) when I'm there, but always when I leave also. Even in Tucson, where I'm 40 miles from the border, we have illegal border crossers sometimes wandering the neighborhood.
@@BTinSF Well there's your problem, of course you're going to have bad company only 20 minutes outside of Tucson! I lived in the Prescott area until just a couple months ago, which is basically Arizona's biggest "small" community if you ask me, and the places where it's unwise to leave doors unlocked are only near certain places, such as bars, rehab centers, gas stations/small convenience stores, homeless hangouts, apartments, and sketchy/ghetto locations, basically everywhere that mentally unstable and impoverished people tend to frequent. If you're close enough to a major city to get cold groceries, then you're not at a safe distance to even have the thought of leaving the door unlocked.
@@ShawnF6FHellcat Wow. So you're saying it's unsafe to live in a city or a suburb or, like me, an exurb. So that pretty much just leaves the middle of nowhere--which, if you do have trouble from criminals or health issues or whatever means you're kind of up sh_ts creek. At least where I am there's a hospital not too far away and decent coverage by the Pima County Sheriff's Dept and the local fire department. Also the only actual crime I've heard about, besides wandering border crossers trying to get to Tucson, are an occasional crazy old desert rat going bonkers or predations by a few local teens.
That whole thing where she says "So let me know if you don't lock your door" sounds like a set up
I'm American, and I often wear long-sleeved shirts (light material) on a really hot summer day. It insulates, but if the ambient temperature is close to 37C/98.6F and the sun's beating down, it might be cooler than direct exposure to the sun plus I'm avoiding sunburn. Then if I walk into a cold store, I've got long sleeves to insulate me from that. The sleeves don't help the sweat evaporate (which is how sweat actually cools you down), but if the humidity is high enough, it's not going to evaporate anyway.
One thing I do that she'll probably find strange is ....calling her out for being full of total crap.
Facts.
Most of these videos are!! Lol...
Where was she wrong? Except the check writing thing
A lot of the things that she claims are common in the States are not really that common. However, it’s true that the things she cites do happen in the States. For instance, some people do write checks, but it’s really not common. You might get a bill in the mail that requires you to write a check and mail it back, but usually people buy things in stores with a credit card or cash. PayPal, Venmo, and Cash App are accepted at some smaller vendors and even a few larger vendors like Home Depot. Some places let you pay with a QR code. Also, I don’t know anyone in the States that leases their car, but the manufacturers advertise leases heavily, and yeah, it could be a good deal if the terms are right. I guess what I’m saying is take her videos with a grain of salt, but also subscribe to her videos because they are entertaining.
I used to know business men who lease because so they can switch it out for a newer model and look like they good at business lol
Of course some people lease cars! That's how they change their cars every 2-3 years. One thing you can't do is generalize... there are over 330 million people in the US - not everyone does the exact same thing.
I thought she said Americans rent their cars, which is a different thing than lease. And makes absolutely no sense so she must mean lease. Which is also not what everyone does but truer than rentals anyway.
More common than you realize
I have 2 friends that have only lease cars . They get a different/new car every 3 yrs . Im just different and wanted a pic-up truck, so I bought it instead of leasing.
People are definitely more friendly in the US. If I spend 10 minutes in a queue in America... I have made a new friend. In EU or UK, I have learned not to talk or smile at people. The reaction is typically a look like I'm crazy. I'm a human, you're a human... can't i smile at you? Might be the only smile that person got all week.
My mom was a perpetual smiler in all countries and in all circumstances. She traveled a lot with my dad and had a rough time of it in some countries: Iran (!), France, Germany, UK... She never could understand that people thought she was crazy!😂
That's sad. I live in America, and I smile at people all of the time. People always smile back, and sometimes we share a word.
It lifts one's spirits to share a smile, or to share pleasantries.
Being from the Southeast, talking to people in line at stores, post office or bank is normal, you can make some good friends that way.
People here in the Southeast also have a habit of waving at people we meet while driving, you pick your first finger or two up off the steering wheel while nodding as you pass, it has fallen out of practice with the younger generation but most older people still do it, a lovely tradition.
I'm from Florida and one of my best friends i met in a store. I gave my doctor a ride to her car dealership last week after my appointment.
Just be kind!!!
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there are casual dress codes in America. it's normal for jeans and t-shirt (or dresses for women) or better dressing. we look down on people that wear pajamas or the like or clothes that are too revealing (in public). we feel that these people are ill dressed for the situation and judge them harshly, but usually keep quiet about it. we even make fun of them on the internet with websites dedicated to this.
additionally, some business DO have required dress codes and will bar people from entering. these are usually fancy (or high end) business.
Checks, Bikes and time:
Checks are a thing for government assistance for the first one/if you don't take three minutes to set up direct deposit. Other than that, we'll use cashier's checks for rent in some circumstances, but usually money orders or account transfer. Other than thst, it's very old people, or a payment from a business that doesn't keep cash on hand, such as an office paying you for a service or delivery.
Bikes vary by location. Portland has separate bike lanes on all the downtown streets.
Time, normal watch will say 8pm if it's night, 8am if it's morning. Military time is a 24 hour clock. 00:00-23:59, like, 3AM is said out loud as "O Three hundred hours".
I don’t know where she’s living, but almost everything she’s said sounds very strange to me, and if you hear about people doing the things she says the response would be, “that’s weird”.
Where I live, we don’t lock our doors except at night, but we’re really rural and just about everyone is armed.
This just shows how diverse the US is, where I’m from everyone locks their doors, no matter the time of day
Same. Small towns are kinda great. Back in my grandparents day they sometimes didn’t even lock up at night. It also helps to get to know your neighbors that way everyone looks out for each other
Was a camp counselor in WY one summer. On weekends we would stay with different host families. One of the counselors was from Miami. He would get in trouble for locking the vehicle and bringing the keys inside. In that small town, the folks left their keys in the ignition! They didn’t lock their doors either.
It would say 8:00 p.m.
Same here. We only lock at night when we are asleep. We're rural also and besides the possibility that we're armed is that we have a large, loud German Shepherd who is ironically probably the most valuable thing in the house, lol. You would really need to be desperate to break in at our place. The only thing of value you'd find for your trouble would be the thing that bites you in the a**, lol.
If you come to the US and visit Ohio, you'll see us switching from heat to A/C in the same day...we can get some pretty big swings in temperature from early morning to late afternoon. Office buildings and Retail stores REALLY crank up the A/C...and if you don't carry a lot of extra weight, you WILL get chilly. I've always hated the overuse of it because while it might feel good initially getting out of the heat, you pay for it by the feeling of being hit with a blast furnace when you walk back outside!
Indeed.
a ploy to stay n shop to stay cool? lol
Ya. I'm in Michigan and this time of year it's really common. Like high today is 85° and low this week high 40s. Ridiculous lol
Going from really cool to very hot can be dangerous.
In reference to what she said about school uniforms, It is not always the case anymore that only private school kids wear uniforms, the public school district I live in has kids up through 8th grade wear uniforms. They are not as formal,(no ties or suit jackets and girls can wear slacks and shorts like the boys wear), but they do need to be certain colors and styles. I think it was started here to help stop bullying and to eliminate kids from poorer areas not having name brand clothes.
And to make sure older kids aren't wearing gang colors.
I'm from the US and if I ever go to Europe, I'm absolutely going to make, strange, small requests of the wait staff just to test these stereotypes. I won't feel bad about it either b/c apparently the 20% tip I'm going to give at the end of the dinner is baller.
Will the Burger King you work at allow you vacation time?
@@davidstephan5116 I find it hilarious that you're trying to big time me but your comment history shows that just before this you made a comment about how you've been shopping for an RV. You do know that we don't live in those here?
@@igotnoname4557 why would someone live in a RV? I know they kinda resemble the mobile home you currently live at, but they’re not meant to live in
We use 12-hour clocks. Midnight to noon is 12:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., and then from noon to midnight is 12:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m.
The 24-hour clock is generally used for the military, thus being called military time. But it is also used in business like trucking.
Lol he has me cracking up when he said you guys jumbled it. The practice of going month/day/year was invented in the U.K as a way to make accounting/filing more efficient. It is technically still used in the UK as well but the common practice reverted back to day/month/year. While us in the USA kept it because the test results proved it was more efficient back in the day.
theres alot of things the uk invented or coined and blame americans and think its weird. the britts coined soccer
We are just more efficient then the rest of the world..
@@shiichan32 the soccer is the player. not the sport. the sport is football. americans misunderstood and thought it was the sport. yes, the English specifically (not the Brits) coined the term, but it meant the player. the soccer.
@@TheMonkeyVthat’s incorrect. The word “soccer” was coined in the UK in the 1800’s and was used to call the sport up until around 1980 when the term “football” was more commonly adopted over soccer.
In 1863 the “Football Association” was established in Britain that included many variations of ball sports where the official variation of soccer/football was called “association football.” But a similar variation of the same sport “rugby football” was shortened to “rugby” around the same time to distinguish itself as a stand-alone sport. Meanwhile “association football” was then shortened to “soccer” to distinguish itself as ITS own stand-alone sport.
The term soccer comes from a slang abbreviation of the word “association,” which was adapted to: “assoc,” “assoccer”and then “soccer.”
So it’s not the player but the actual sport. The sport was called “soccer” in the UK longer than the US have called it that. The term was brought to the US with the sport while still being used in the UK, and is the only reason the US calls it soccer. If the UK would have been calling the sport “football” exclusively during the time they brought it to the US that’s what would have been used.
We write the date like we speak it. I wouldn’t say “ the 29th day of December of the year 2023”.
I'd love to know where in the US she is because most of what she says is just not true.
There’s a German lady that dose the same.
Couldn’t agree more, am barely 5 minutes in & everything she’s said is completely off base!
I believe she was in Cincinnati, Ohio? It is not a small city. I think she either never got far from the neighbor hood she was in and applies what she observed to the whole country ! Some sounds just made up, no Ohio is not all this either. Do you have fans in other countries
I was going to say the same thing, there are 11 CITIES bigger than the UK alone, how does she expect someone to ride a bike that far, she's cuckoo. And I don't know of anywhere in the US that doesn't have bike paths, she apparently has never really traveled the US much.
When I was growing up in Alabama we didn't lock our doors we will leave the keys in our vehicles and then we moved to Illinois and we would have to get up and lock it because my mother didn't lock the doors I guess to each has their own but we lock our doors these days even if we're armed to the T😅
House Alarm Systems are actually fairly common in the US. The biggest home security company is ADT. what they typically do is install sensors on every door and window in your house, so whenever the Alarm is armed and one of these sensors is broken, the alarm goes off. Some set ups include internal cameras that are also set to detect moveme whenever you're not at home. (In this case you'd set your alarm to Arm - Away, otherwise, like at night, you'd set it to Arm - Stay). These alarm systems are also usually connected to video camera doorbells. A popular video doorbell brand is Ring. But there are several others. There are several other security company ax well. We had an ADT system for many years, but the system was becoming outdated, so we switched to something else, and it's a much simpler system to operate. It has a touch screen main unit panel that is extremely simple to use. But you can use smart device Aps to work the system.
Whenever an alarm is tripped, you usually have 5 minutes to deactivate it before the company is notified and them sending out police,,fire, or EMS services depending on the situation. The company will call you during this period to see what the problem is.
My home security system is Smith and Wesson and the secondary system is my pooch. I never lock my doors.
like, how would she know if homes had alarms or not? was she over here burgling?
@@everwhat013 let's hope she doesn't do that in the wrong state or she's gonna find out the hard way why some homes don't need alarms
17 years being a police officer and I can tell you that people lock their doors. Now in the teeny tiny rural areas where there is not much crime. People enjoy the brag about the fact that crime is so low they don't have to lock their cars and lock their house doors. But most of those people really do like them. But it doesn't mean that people are allowed to just come on in. You still have etiquette and you must knock or ring the doorbell. Then the homeowner has to come to the door and let them in. It's just absurd to think that we just let people in. But of course is caveats to everything.
The temperature where i live varies greatly from season to season. I have seen it as hot as 104°f (40°c) and as cold as 15 below (-26°c)
The climate in the northeast is unforgiving at times. It is common to see temperatures between 5°f and 95°f yearly. The other numbers are the extreme ends i have seen in either direction.
It is for this reason americans put an emphasis on climate control. Even areas you would not think get cold like texas for instance, can get well below the freezing point in some areas.
This woman lives in an alternate universe. Hardly anyone in America leases cars or uses checks.
We still use checks occasionally, but we’re in our 60’s :)
In NYC ppl lease cars alot.
Loads of bikes here especially since Citibikes came to town.
But in rural areas it's too far for biking everywhere.
Checks are becoming a thing of the past.
But takes awhile for systems to spread in the US because of it's size.
They say "14 hundred" in the army,only armed forces use it.
Malls don't always u shirtless, and some places will say you need shoes.
There are we places you need to dress up to go in will say only black tie or something similar.
More In cities in fancy places.
Yup, we are nicer!!
My father is in his 80's. He does not use computers. He will easily leave his cellphone in the house and go outside in the yard without it. He will not answer it during meal hours or after 9 pm at night, His answer is just because you are disrespectful does not mean he has to accept it. He still uses checks because he does not trust digital means of payment. No debit cards and he demands his SS payments as a check as well. My aunt leases cars, my father does not. He buys them outright.
I lease a car and I still write checks.
A lot of people lease cars, esp in cities. I still get paid with a check and when I get Christmas tips, at least 50% of customers write checks. Even if it's only $15-$20.
The average house here in my area (Utah) is selling for $650k. Many are a lot more than that. So no, 1 million doesn't sound like that much to me. Yes, it's a ridiculous amount that many of us can't afford...but it's becoming the norm around the country. As for checks...except on very rare occasions for a company/bill that specifically requires you pay by check, I haven't had to use one. It's been about 20 years since they were commonly used for everyday things like groceries, gas, etc.
You're about 100K too high on that average price.
Easy to Google the average, and yes, I'm aware there are specific areas in Utah higher than others.
I'm also in Utah.
I'm in a place where 650k will get you at least 2 nice sized houses, so 1 million does sound like alot to me, but we are talking about giving away a million and not investing that million in a house. That makes it more outrageous.
That said, people's reactions or lack thereof may have more to do about the amount of times they have heard these types of stories and less to do with the money amount.
In California a million may buy you a decent 3BR home, $650k for an old fixer, at least, pre-pandemic.
@@pauladuncanadams1750you can almost double those figures in 2024. I develop properties around Santa Monica and surrounding areas. It’s gotten insane as of late
The way I see it for the month day year is because there are 12 months, up to 31 days, and the years in thousands so it does go smallest to biggest number wise. I’ll never understand day month year. Seeing 31/12/23 just looks weird instead of 12/31/23
There fact is, we say month-day-year, like January 1, 2022. The Europeans may say it in ascending order, 1 January 2022, but I think that is a change, probably a response to their use of 01/01/2022.
It is mostly businesses that lease, not rent cars. Rentals are for vacations or business trips. Most people buy their cars. There are rich, middle and poor people here, so the value of money is subjective.
We use a 12 hr clock but afternoon it is PM and from midnight on till noon is AM. 12AM is midnight and 12PM is noon. 1AM is the night time and 1PM is afternoon.
In America it is s sign of respect for men to remove their hat while eating. My husband is 76 and always removes his hat. Depends on your up bringing. I am not sure where she goes to visit but it sounds like she is out of touch with the common man, imo. She visits large cities and not the everyday towns of the US. Not a criticism, just an observation.
Yeah, my family is the same. The men will wear a hat in the house, but never at the table. They also take it off for a funeral procession, the pledge of allegiance, the National anthem, or for church.
in my family being from military its not just the dinner table. It’s wearing a hat indoors period that’s not allowed and considered disrespectful.
men don't wear hat's in Calif maybe cap's or hip people.
That’s a southern thing with the hats
Respect, same here. Recently there’s some security issues with people wearing hats, caps, hoodies, etc. in businesses.
I am in the Washington, DC area and I mostly see older people write checks but few businesses accept them. you can pay bills with them. Some of my relatives will send checks in cards( birthday, Christmas, Anniversary, etc) but they are all over 75yo
All businesses accept checks still. Your comment is stupid.
Let me sum up American culture for you. It has to be convenient and comfortable. I live in Florida and I only turned my air conditioner off for two days in past year. It just runs continuously. 😊
True. Doesn't make it right but it is true.
I live in GA & only switch to heat for maybe 2-3 months. Also may have to switch to AC during the day & heat at night lol
9:46 In the smallish town I grew up in, not only did we not lock our doors, we'd leave our car keys in the ignition. My house was a little ways off from the center of town, but even the people in the denser areas wouldn't be worried about locking anything.
Iwas overcharged in a grocery, once home I called them , 1 week later I went back and they gave me a free one without a receipt.
The thing I agree most with is the AC. I keep our AC on at 75 F which is 24 C. We live in an area where it can get up to 115 F (46 C) but average at 110 F (43 C) in the summer. I have a physical condition...I don't sweat. I can literally drop dead from heat exhaustion. Having AC is truly a life saving thing for me. Plus I hate bring sticky, lol!
No where in the US averages over 100F in the Summer, except Death Valley, even then it like right at 100F. Yeah Phoenix can have a long stretch of days with highs around 110F and most of the southern(east and west) US can get up to a 110+F high in the summer.
@@TheBaldr yes. I live in the desert area. It gets hot.
Dates- If you’re going to schedule something on your calendar like an appointment, it makes more sense to say the month first so that you have a starting point of reference. If you say the date first, you have to continue waiting for more information to be able to get to the right location. If I say are you available march…. As I am reviewing my schedule, you can immediately get to the right month to reference so when I say the date, 23rd, you are already in the correct vicinity to then find the correct day. It makes way more sense to put have the month prior to the date. It’s like with the game bingo- you don’t say 7 B, you say 7 B. So you know which column to look at first then what number you’re looking for. It’s easier when narrowing down the location. March so now I know which month to start with, then the 23rd. It’s logistically more efficient.
Exactly!
L3WG I absolutely LOVE your videos! I live in southwest Louisiana. And if you ever do visit this way, please contact your Louisiana fans so we can all tell you the best places and things that don’t make it on the “tourism” brochures. The best things in the south are usually small town things and are off the beaten path! Keep doing what you’re doing man.
Just want to say hi to Louisiana love it there. I have friends in Longview LA. I live in Maryland and going to Louisiana is like a different country in the USA. Love everything about it all but the heat and bugs. Food is the best. Haven’t been for a couple years. Very friendly and nice people that have each others backs.
I use a check each month for my rent. because they wanted $3.50 for the automatic payment fee, and it's less than 60 feet from my front door to the office dropbox.
My former husband left a bag with his plane ticket, wallet with almost $10,000 in cash at a stall where had been browsing ( this was many years ago, before he had even gotten home the man who found it called me and asked where he needed to bring it and could I meet him, so after my husband got home I asked him if he had everything, his eyes got huge and he patted himself all over as he realized what he had lost, I told him where to go meet the guy, he was there, handed over the bag with all the contents and refused to accept a reward for returning it, he said he was an ordained minister and it was only right for him to return it. My husband had been going to an auction, that’s why he had such a large amount of cash.
9:30 People saying they live somewhere that they don't have to lock their door just means everyone in the community respects and watches out for eachother's property. No one is just coming in and out of our front door lmao.
Some places here in the south will generally leave their garage door up when they are home almost like an invitation for guests and neighbors to come on in.
Also, just to clarify the "emotional support animal" thing in the US, it's the same as she said. There is no such thing legally as an "emotional support animal", they are pets. People used to think that calling their pet an "emotional support animal" meant they could take them everywhere and the business had to abide by the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act, that requires businesses to accept service animals). But that has been stricken down because they are untrained. Stores have started to push back and tell people to keep their pets at home.
The fair housing act LEGALLY protects owners of emotional support animals and so does the air carrier access act. Some states recognize emotional support animals and have laws in place. To say they are not legally recognized is incorrect
One of the things i find funny about our relationship with bicycles is loading them up onto a vehicle to drive somewhere to go on a bike ride. I understand why, but it is still funny to me.
8:00pm = 20:00 i do know military time, but i have to do the mental math to convert it to am/pm.
Insulation works both ways. If you managed to cool your house (say fans bringing in cooler evening air), wouldn't it remain a bit cooler during the day? (Close your windows before it gets warm and have fans circulating the air.) Admittedly it is a dry heat at that time of year but summer temps where i live can easily go from below 10°c to over 37.8°c (50°f-100°f) or even over 110° during a day and i don't have a/c, just fans.
When was Diane's visit made? Like 20 years ago? When is the last time anybody in America used a check? Maybe occasionally someone uses them to pay bills but I don't think stores even take checks anymore.
The unlocked house thing is more that in safe, rural areas, (less and less these days) it's taken as a point of pride that you don't need to lock up to be safe. People still knock before coming in, they don't just walk in before you let them in haha 😂 but yeah, still starting to happen less and less as sht gets crazier in the world. I also bet that us having the ability to protect ourselves and our families and neighbors by being armed and properly trained in arms use, helps us to be able to do this, on the off chance that someone does break in uninvited trying to hurt ya or whatnot. 😊
The change in temperature is something that so normal but I can easily see as odd. My twin daughters are 8 years old and during the summer when we go to a restaurant or a grocery store I always bring two light jackets for my girls. As an adult it doesn't faze me but my daughters get uncomfortably cold in mainly restaurants and grocery stores. I think it is even more exaggerated because in the summer we all wear shorts and t-shirts to deal with the heat and then most places indoors are dramatically cooler.
We always wear jackets to the movies during the summer. Otherwise we'd freeze!
Cell phones give you the option of 12 hour, military time (24 hour), analog clock. Am is morning, pm is from past noon to just midnight.
I set mine to 24 hours, because I'm a retired nurse & used to military time. And sometimes I don't know if it's dusk or dawn!
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in some of the bigger chain stores, you might be able to use paypal, venmo, apple pay, galaxy pay, google pay or some other type of electronic payment system.
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just about every company has a 'lost and found' for stuff that got left behind. if this happens, you just have to go to customer service desk and ask there. if someone turned it in, it'll be there. it's very common and people are usually very good about turning things in. even things like phones and wallets.
We write the date the way we speak the date. We say August 10, 2023 so we write it 8/10/23, which makes much more sense than 10/8/23 because we wouldn’t normally say 10 August
In the USA you can't bring your pet to the hospital (unless it's a seeing eye dog) but the hospital has their own pets! They have people who have specially trained dogs/cats that visit with everyone in the hospital. When I was in Cardiac Critical Care I was visited by a standard poodle and a cavalier king charles spaniel. They did make me feel better!
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In the US service dogs and therapy dogs can go in to hospitals. Emotional support animals are mostly a scam people use to get their pets into rental housing. But they don’t have any other rights
Especially cats, their purr is helpful for their healing, so it tracks that it should help a patient❤ But a dog or cat would be comforting to someone who is sick(unless allergies is the problem)😂 Kinda like a distraction to your problems😊
I think it's different for each hospital. When my mom was in the hospital, I was allowed to bring our pet Maltese who is not a therapy animal to visit her. Even was encouraged to bring him to visit my friend's mother - we had to show proof of vaccinations (rabies, distemper, parvo, etc.). Thankfully, he's very well behaved and calm.
My wife uses a mobility service dog to pull her in her wheelchair.
As you can imagine she can't use small or medium size breeds so she usually has a mastiff breed though her current one is a 150 pound Anatolian Shepherd.
He goes everywhere from restaurants to dr appointments.
I think it’s a cultural thing. We try not to react to how much people make or even ask them. And we never really ask how much someone spent on something. Giving a million to a fake person in Nigeria does shock me but I wouldn’t react much bc that would feel rude
About the clock thing - we tell time by the 12 hr clock and we differentiate with am for morning and pm for evening. Only the military uses the 24 hr clock, so 15:00 = 3 pm.
As for military time, I believe they would call 8 am “oh 800” and 6 pm “18 hundred”
I have found that nice people most of the time live longer and are happier. 😊 do onto others as you want to be treated.
I agree with your assessment on a lot of money! A million is definitely a lot! Not a ton of people use checks anymore. Some places actually don't take personal checks anymore because businesses don't want to pay the monthly charges associated with a check guarantee service to justify the number of checks they get. It's a dying out form of payment, but it IS still out there. After noon, the time changes from A.M. to P.M. (Latin for 'Ante Meridiem'' or "before midday" and 'Post Meridiem' or "after midday." At night our phones show, "8:00 P.M." and in the morning they would show, "8:00 A.M."
I'm here to tell you that, as an American, 1 million dollars is most definitely a large amount of money lol I wish I had a million dollars!
It’s not really that much in the grand scheme of things. 10mil+ is in the real money stage
One thing about the USA is that it is so large that there a many variations on most of the things she mentions. There is so much flexibility that it’s hard to generalize.
8:25 Usually military uses the 24 hour clock but for most everyone else it's the 12 hour clocks with AM and PM; AM is 12:00am (midnight) to 11:59am and PM is 12:00pm to 11:59pm.
On a digital clock 18:00 shows as 6:00PM, and 6:00 shows as 6:00AM. An analog clock does not indicate AM or PM; you just have to know.
The ground floor in America is usually partially below ground and one level below the main entrance.
No, not an american thing, we don't "rent a lot of cars"... I mean if going on vacation somewhere perhaps. But normally we buy our cars.
Well, how about this. I went to a job interview once and when I was on my way back to my car I found a man's wallet. Jam full of cash and alo of other things that would be a hassle to lose. I took it into the office of the folks I'd just interviewed with. A glance at his driver's license told me he lived much closer to their location and he could retrieve it much more easily from there. They said they would find him and took it off my hands. The situation was completely normal to everyone, and I believe the man who lost it got it back.
I wouldn't have trusted anyone else not to lighten it of at least some of the cash so I would have called him and let him come to my house and get it (our met him somewhere near my house).
@@BTinSF My husband lost his wallet at work, and he got it back with everything intact minus the cash, but all things considered he was glad he got his wallet and considered the lost cash a reward for turning the wallet in.
@@AZHITWHe lost it at work and someone stole the cash from him? Wow that's terrible.
@@squoctopus He worked construction he would be at 6 to 7 different builders any given day; he had no expectations of getting the wallet back because he didn't even know where he lost it. It just happened when he went back to the same builder the wallet was turned in to the construction supervisor.
@@AZHITW. Well he's a good guy with a good attitude. He's right that the wallet was more important and he probably would have rewarded the person returning it. I'm glad he got his wallet back but I'm sorry someone stole his money.
The closest my kids ever came to a uniform is there was certain colors that were part of the uniform but you could wear anything that fit into the appropriate colors. I’m not sure I explained that well 😂
We had something similar in elementary school. Even then it was more of a "guideline" of "recommended" uniforms.
Most of what she says is area or generational specific. Older people tend to use checks more than younger. But those of us who embraced technology will use it rather than checks. Riding bikes is more in cities as they have bike lanes which smaller cities and towns don’t. People who don’t lock their doors live in small town or the country. People don’t just walk into someone’s house, unless you are expected or family or very close friends.
Talking about temperatures, air conditioning, heating, etc., in Texas (except for the summer where it's just freaking hot!), we wear layers, like a tank top with a hoodie or whatever, that you can take on and off depending on the current temperature outside or in a business.
9:20 majority of people lock their doors in the us.. i live in a wooded area miles away from any actual road and even i lock my door😭 the people here are just too crazy
People in the US are no crazier than the rest of the world.
Today is April 9th. (4/09/2023) that's just how we speak. Most of us just say the month first and we write it that way as a result of our speaking pattern. It has nothing to do with shortest to longest.
EU is the opposite if I remember right. Day/Month/Year?
Heeheeheee he calls them trousers. 🥰😁🤭
Also, ESA (emotional support animals) are NOT allowed in pet restrictive places other than residencies (apartment or rental home) that do not allow pets. Only SERVICE animals are allowed access to grocery stores, most malls, airports/planes, hospitals, and schools. I have a service dog and there are a LOT of fakes out here in the US. The dog has to be VERY extensively trained and actually perform a trained response to assist the handler. Because of fakes and abuse of the term, ESAs are no longer allowed in the cabin of airplanes. A lot of people abuse the fact that it isn't legal to ask probing questions about what a service dog does. So if you buy a cheap fake "service dog" vest on amazon and take your dog to the grocery store, the manager can ask "is that a service dog?" And you can go "yup!" And they can't do anything to make you prove that. There is no official federally recognized registry or identification card or anything for it either so they can't even ask to see a card or anything for them. 🤷♀️ if the dog is CLEARLY a fake (barking, being disruptive, aggressive, urinating on merchandise, being a hazard to people walking like jumping up on people, pulling food off shelves, etc) they CAN get kicked out and reported. Impersonating a service animal can get your animal confiscated AND you can face fines of up to tens of thousands of dollars.
You can change the clock in your phone 12 to 24 hr formats or even digital to analog.
The calendar order makes sense for sorting based on date order, the month goes first the date then year, the computer and file naming will sort this way correctly, where day first would sort the first of January then the first of February order which doesn’t make sense
For the date... Smallest grouping to largest. 12 months/31 days/infinite years. 8 at night says 8:00pm not 20:00.
Love your videos!!
Obviously you never served. 8pm to me is 20 hundred (2000) to me. It is the same to all male members of my family and a few females as well. Pretty much all veterans I know can instantly convert the time into a 24 hr clock as well in their minds.
Emotional support animals are very different than a service dog. ESAs are not allowed in most places support dogs are. But yes, we have a lot of shops and stores that are pet friendly in the US.
It is hilarious that she thinks only "fancy schools" wear uniforms. Lol! A lot of lower income schools, especially in a big city makes uniforms mandatory. But yes, mist of us do not have a uniform but we do have dress codes for our street clothes.
Have you seen the videos about emotional support kangaroos, alligators and lizards? Bravo to the store clerk in CA who would dare to not allow someone into their establishment with such a creature.
A lot of these people..from other countries, think the US is the same size as their country, and try to explain things where they are..not thinking, every state is like a separate country..
@@oldhag8139 exactly. I once replied that we are like 5 countries in one; the North, South, East, West and Midwest. All different cultures geography, foods, accents, etc...
Today, for me, $100 is a lot of money!!!
It's true tho, we've hear $1M thrown around so much that it's not shocking.
For the school uniform point, as a child of two teachers, I heard a lot of the behind the scene stuff. I live in Utah and some public schools were testing uniforms several years back. Most parents opted their kids out by spring semester because they couldn't afford what the school required. The students also rebelled at having their fashion freedom taken away which caused a lot of tension.
There's a common knowledge rule that if something is required, the establishment that sets the requirement has to supply it for free or at a reduced price. The price varies from area to area, and it is based on the average income for that area. The chosen sections that were testing the school uniforms were poorer areas, and the school was not offering the uniforms at a reasonable price so, in a nutshell, the students were getting reprimanded for not having a proper uniform because they couldn't afford one, but the school wasn't offering a uniform at a price the family could afford. The uniforms didn't last for more than three semesters.
i have no idea where in America she visited but no one where i live uses checks anymore either.
So, I was in public school from Kindergarten through senior year, no uniforms. However, in the younger years, we had very strict rules around what shoes you wear in the gymnasium, and your parents had to buy "gym shoes" that were kept shiny and clean specifically for gym class. You had to change in and out of them again for that specific class. Heaven forbid you forget and wear them outside. But it was nice each year, because you get a brand new pair of sparkly clean shoes at the start of the school year.
I agree with you about the day/month/year thing. It does make sense. But as a native of the US, it'll go away when Imperial Units go away (and you know that's not going to happen). Edit to add: I'm cracking up about the time thing. The clock has AM and PM. So 8 at night is 8pm (post meridian). Only military use 24 hour time. And - gasp - many of us have clocks, you know, round ones with little hands? It's pretty easy to know if it's 8am or 8pm.
She really doesn't know what she's talking about and he really shouldn't be listening to her.
My doors are locked at all times. We locked our doors when I grew up in the 60's living in the country.
No you can' t take your pets anywhere. Even service dogs are limited depending what they're registered for.
@@furbysmith3240small town USA does leave their doors unlocked. It’s a bad move, but it happens
@@furbysmith3240and in Beverly Hills, some of their finest restaurants, and some people have small dogs with them. I personally hate it, but it happens
Some people lease cars because they can keep them for a year or two then trade them in for a new car lease
4:00 Mainly much older people still use checks; I'm 59 years old and I don't even remember the last time I used them, but I'm sure it's been at least 10+ years for me too.
People rarely wear pajamas to the store. It's not socially acceptable, however, you might find a younger person at a 24 hour store in their pajamas if they cover everything well. There are laws against wearing certain things like undergarments as clothing, or showing certain body parts.
Well, i see older women typically wearing pajamas into the stores.
I’ve run across a couple vids from this girl. She doesn’t know what she’s talking about.
bless her heart...
I said that a few minutes into her video lol
One thing that all older elevator buildings used to do (hotels especially) is not have 13th floors. Not only because of superstitions but because no one wanted to stay on the 13th floor.
omg, going into stores that keep it crazy cold is soooo annoying. Not only do you freeze to death, but when you go outside again, it makes it even hotter then it was before, its a good way to get sick. Our stores have relaxed some with the temperatures, cause really if its like 40C outside, you go in a store and its like I dont know 20C..your freezing before you even walk 10 feet haha. It would also make people pass out going back outside being hit with such heat. I speaking about around were I am in Ontario, in Canada.
Bro you should avoid her videos shes no good