Travel

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.

Someone on AskReddit got a fun thread going about the various American habits that Americans didn't realize were so American. Sometimes one has no idea how absurd their habits are, because they've been so normalized by the culture and society they're living in. The outside perspective can be quite eye-opening. 

Admittedly cheese is kind of a strange thing, and to the uninitiated, it's hard to forget that sausage (at its best, even) is an animal's butt stuffed with itself. If you come from a land of avocado dessert milk drinks, then guacamole probably looks like an atrocity. Here's some culture shock had by Europeans in the United States. Culture shock can come from even the smallest things, like this cultural collide over what lemonade is.

We hope that times are changing and people have a little more global awareness when it comes to travel. That said, there will always be people who think that you can just move a tropical island somewhere else. While that's horribly stupid, it is pretty fun to laugh at. Tourists asks some monumentally stupid questions. Sometimes fliers become a big problem before they even get there.

Americans hear all about how they can be obnoxious overseas, like being loud and embarrassing, thinking local cuisine is gross and calling someone a "foreigner" in the country they live in. Luckily, there are other less rude things American travelers do that identify them as Americans. For some more outside perspective, here are weird things people noticed about America.

After people noticed that this travel influencer's photos had the same clouds in each picture, they connected the dots and called her out for the photo editing. Nothing is real in the land of influencers. 

Life comes at you fast, and it's best to make the most of the time you have. If you're in your 20s, pay attention closely to what the wise 30-year olds have to say. If you're in your 30s, then who cares, you haven't even hit middl age yet. If you're older than that, you probably think all this is stupid. On a slightly lighter note, here's some funny things people regret that they said.

If you've ever gotten lost in the sauce, you likely misplaced your ID amidst that fall into drunken disorientation station. The travel agency in this scenario outdid themselves. I can only imagine the sweaty panic that must've ensued when he got this form in the mail.

BARBARA, you're freaking everyone out! Seriously, as far as uncomfortable flights go with bizarre neighbors, this one takes the cake. A whole lot of cringe and genuine uncomfortable going on in this nervous Twitter thread. 

This dude just wanted to ride the bus, but went out on a limb and lied about his identity. It's literally like a sitcom episode where one lie snowballs into a web of bigger and bigger lies. Sounds stressful. While lying is usually the wrong thing to do, people do it all day every day. Sometimes the results work out way too well.

Just because something is statistically improbable doesn't mean there's no way of it happening. When you consider how many people there are living their own individual lives, the possibility of something improbable happening between them, at least once, becomes a near certainty. Chance is a real mofo. And in case you wanted to see how unlucky people can get, here are some more stories.