Non-Americans shared the biggest ‘WTF’ moments when they visited the US – 27 proper eye-openers

15.

‘The political ads on TV that do not promote but instead demonize candidates! “So and so is a devil from hell that will eat your newborn for breakfast if you vote for them! Don’t do it if you love America!” Scary music and black and white footage included. Weird, very weird.’
MagsClouds

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‘On the first day of our US roadtrip we stopped for lunch at a roadside restaurant south of San Francisco. When we tried to pay the waiter told us that another customer that just had left paid for our meals and whished us a nice trip.
WTF, who does that. So nice! Totally made my day and honestly the whole vacation.’
GuantanaMo

17.

‘Answering for someone else. (I’m American answering for a German). Ice machines in hotels. They couldnt understand why the hotels had so many ice machines and why there are signs for them.

‘I couldnt stop laughing about it and honestly have no idea why we love ice so much.

‘He also asked what people had in the big plastic cups. I said pop/soda. He laughed and said they look like they are 1.5 liters, there is no way they are drinking soda. Silly friend, yes yes they are.’
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18.

‘Portion sizes and adverts for drugs would be the big two. All the other differences would be either stuff you don’t experience on holiday or within the kind of differences you’d expect from another country. But the meals were just unbelievably massive, and having people hawk serious medication to you through the TV was very jarring.’
SamWhite

19.

‘Especially as a bloody introverted Finnish person (stereotypes kicking in) it was terrifying how people had a ton of chitchat and were really talkative. Wished me a good day and asked about useless stuff. DON’T TALK TO ME PLEASE I AM NOT QUALIFIED FOR THIS.’
mizzuus

20.

‘How low down the toilets are compared to here in the UK. Went to sit on one, dropped as I thought I’d missed the darned thing then felt like I’d broken my ass on impact. It’s like missing the bottom step of the stairs, but even worse.’
Karazhan

21.

‘Jay walking and the lack of pavement/sidewalk on many roads. I found it so hard to just get from one place to another.’
DaveLakowski

22.

‘I saw an advert on TV for some prescription meds then the presenter started listing off all the side effects, including death!’
One_Truth42

23.

‘Tax not included in the price tag. It’s… weird!’
avlas

24.

“Almost all food in the US tastes sweet, including bread.”
back-in-black

25.

“I went to pay with a credit card in a restaurant and the waiter just took it and walked off.”
YouserName007

26.

‘A “what to do if you see a panther” sign.’
OneFlunchHam

27.

‘I ate a blue slurpee ice-drink thing in a theme park and three hours later, I kid you not, I did a VIBRANTLY BLUE SHIT.

‘No food in Europe has ever contained an ingredient that made my shit come out blue.
That made me go go “WTF” – I was WTFing so hard that eleven years later I still remember that blue shit.

‘Thanks America! Fond memories…
SubjectsNotObjects

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