If you spend your whole life living in one place, it's easy to think that the way you live is the only way it's done. For someone visiting, there are some easy-to-notice differences like how Americans are basically comfortable talking to strangers, and some other subtle things, like when cultures collide over what lemonade is. Here are some rumors about Americans that ended up being true and some very American habits.

There are a few things about this whole exchange that send up a few red flags. Conventional wisdom is literally screaming: don't agree to the visit. For people who wanted stuff, here are entitled individuals and their preposterous demands. And for another weird and unsettling one, here's a very strange choosing beggar case.

Someone's cutting onions in here. Rest in peace, Carl Reiner!

This slippery choosing beggar got to borrow a car once, and proceeded to draw the entitled assumption that that meant they could just use it again. There would appear to be a strong case of blind ignorance at play here. 

This fun AskReddit thread takes a look at various workers that discovered shortcuts in their various lines of work to accomplish jobs the easiest ways possible. It's remarkable what kinds of paths can be opened up by someone motivated by the burning desire to not have to work too hard. 

Aaron Reynolds shared a hilarious story about a particularly surprising evening he had, while chilling on a hammock listening to the Rolling Stones. You see, Aaron thought he was summoning his cat into the hammock, when in fact it was a sneaky raccoon. From there, hilarious chaos ensues. 

This nostalgic Twitter thread very successfully hits on many of the iconic memories from muddling through elementary school. Whether it was trying to make sure you didn't get caught by those chairs' ferocious static electricity, or fall victim to the terrible taste of those wooden spoons; these are sure to bring many folks back to those strange olden days. 

This job applicant decided to call out a company's interview process after being rejected from getting the position. It would seem given the context here that the honest and critical review was completely reasonable. Someone in the comments section suggested that this company sounded like a potential MLM/pyramid scheme. If that were the case, then bullet dodged! 

The world is full of delicious looking things that aren't actually food. A pickle chip could be a turtle, ice cream could actually be spackle, and caramel could end up being an eraser. Some things, even dangerous and prohibitively crunchy things, end up looking like delicious food.

Nothing like some two-sentence horror stories that waste no time in trying to frighten their readers. It's as if the shorter horror stories can be even scarier than the long winded, drawn out tales we're more accustomed to. These certainly left some lasting, unnerving images in our heads. Check out more spooky two-sentence horror stories over here.

You'd think that in this day and age people would be aware that joke news sites exist, or at least have enough sense to look at the source of a headline. But no, your aunt will still seriously respond to an article from "The Not Real News Times" about how sea world has taught its dolphins to drown children who aren't having enough fun. Anyway here are more absurd individuals who didn't get satire.

This dude did his due diligence and followed the law to the letter, getting out of a bad deal with striking precision. Living situations can get to be a handful, like these nurses who took revenge on their roommate, or this woman who relocated her garden and upset her landlords.

There's no better way to pass the time than getting lost in a field of wonderful Tumblr gems. The community of creative minds is great at providing random, strange, and hilarious observations on various parts about life, and stories as well. For instance, the fun Tumblr thread that imagines angels and demons befriending one another over sandwiches. Or, the educational thread about cats and their journey to domestication.