British Couple Reacts to Things Americans Do That Confuse The Rest Of The World
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I disagree with the video where they say "Americans lack the desire to travel." Yes on average there's less holidays a year but it's also very expensive to travel to Europe or Asia because of distance. The other thing is that we have every kind of climate and geography within our borders.
Agreed...I travel alot...just not outside the Americas, sometimes just within the country...the saying is true that all you need for a good vacation is Florida lol
Also, we don't need specialized inoculations against regional diseases. We also have greater flexibility in healthcare domestically than purchasing traveler policies for international venues.
I agree with you. Not only do we have the climate but we kind of have almost every cultural experience also. Why travel and spend lots of money when you can have the same experience here.
I also think one of the reasons we don't want to travel the world is due to how things are shown to us. It's basically told we don't want to travel to other places because it's not as good as home or dangerous.
I'll ignore the part where I believe that most people just can't afford to travel out of the country. Most don't even know how to get a passport.
I would love to travel but i can't afford it, even within the usa
And we can still go to Hawaii without a passport 🤷♀️
I also disagree with the statement that we “don’t like to travel”. We do! But, there is a lot to do here and the costs to travel out of country are often unaffordable.
I’d add some places here people go back to again and again because they love it like Vegas or Cali or New York.
My passport cost around $150 in '09.
I love to travel, and have been to 3 European countries. But the cost of going from the US to France is wayyyyyyy more then from England to almost any other European country. When you travel in the US, which I have quite a bit, if you're okay with driving, the cost is gas and a place to sleep...plus whatever attraction you may be going to.
I'm a stereotypical introvert who does not like to leave her house, but I would definitely travel more if I had more time off and made more money.
We love to travel and most people I know have been across the pond or elsewhere...we have a beautiful huge country to explore though
As a trucker that's been to 48 states, Canada and Mexico, I can tell you that every state and region are vastly different. And with UK about the size of our state of Wyoming, Switzerland 7x smaller than Colorado, France half the size of Texas, Germany about the size of California, Spain only slightly larger than Montana, Italy only slightly bigger than Idaho, etc., it's like your European backyard. Plus we have all the immigrants from all over the world coming to us, bringing their food and culture. 😘🤣
And as Americans, I can tell you that we ALL hate drug commercials!! 🤬🤬🤬
Yes! Drug commercials are the worst. They're like:
This drug is proven to reduce migrane days by 50%. Side effects may include increased blood pressure, low blood sugar, new or worsening depression, (5 hrs later) heart attack, and possible death. Talk to your doctor about getting this drug today!
@@emmajumet7367 you it's absolutely ridiculous. Side-effects are wise that what they treat. But they buy them anyway.
@@zekepentecost2393 I'm kinda confused about your comment.
@@emmajumet7367 I'm sorry, yup and worse. Dang phone. I agree with you 100%
Yeah the legal drinking age in the US is 21 but that doesn't stop us 😂
Every time I see one of these, 'Things only Americans do', or 'how to recognize an American abroad' etc, I sigh, shake my head, and mutter softly to myself, "You guys do remember that Canada is a country, right?"
Of course I can't really blame the world, I mean Canada is basically what you get when the USA and England have a baby, and let it be raised by a French nanny.
That’s a good way to explain Canada.
I burst out laughing at this. It isn't wrong🤣
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I laughed way too hard at this!!
Haha, the thing is, "Unitedstatesian" is so unweildly especially to Unitedstatesians who love to shorten words. It's pretty normal in Italian, however.
I don’t lack the desire to travel I lack the funds to allow me to travel 😂
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Definitely!
In Europe you can drive for 2 hours and visit multiple countries. I drive for 2 hours not only am I still in America but I’m still in my home state 😩
Exactly!! I’d love to see the world!
Amen to that. I would love to travel, but no money, and not enough time off.
I'm Aussie, but like America, we are very large countries. In the US as in Australia, we can drive 24hrs in a straight line and are still in the same country. Yes we have states, but passports aren't required to travel across state lines.
We can go on holiday 3,500km away from home and still be in our own country.
Yes and in larger countries, the people, scenery, and even food are also very different.
@@TH-eb5ro Absolutely! Tropical rainforest, to vast desert, to snow. One coast is lush temperate, mountain ranges, with the densest population in the country... The opposite coast, sandy and flat with it's own completely unique plants & animals, and only a small section with true urban areas. Even the lingo has it's own nuances and unique definitions.
America is interesting in the fact that you can typically tell what state they are from based on the accent and the food and social norms also vary from state to state except in places that are close to the borders like Kentucky Virginia Tennessee and West Virginia but the farther into each state you go the more things change. Going to a different state is almost like going to a different country depending on how far away that state is. With us having different time zones that also makes it feel like going to a different country in some ways.
@@TH-eb5ro yes. The US contains /all/ climate biomes found throughout the world, so you really don’t need to leave unless you’re looking to gain some culture. Even then, a lot can be found here. It takes approximately 18 hours to drive from San Diego, CA to Seattle, WA. It takes about 3-4 days to get halfway across the country from California.
Passport aren’t needed in America either 😂only if your going to another country
When I was in elementary school in the 70s, we were taught metric with the intention of America converting to metric. States even added metric information to road signs and food labels. It fizzled out within a few years, though. Some items still stuck, such as soda is sold in 2 liter containers.
The US has been metric for ages. Only people that are in service or menial jobs don’t know this. We signed the Treaty of the Metre in 1875. The inch was redefined on the meter in 1866. We are an integral part of the metric system. Everything is officially metric but dual labeled for consumers. All medicine, military, industry, science, and commercial metric. Regular people just don’t notice it because they’re ignorant. When was the last time you got an injection in anything other than cc? Or medicine in anything but mg? The military does everything in km, they say klicks to be cute. I could go on but it’s tedious. The US is the same as the UK or Canada. Official metric but unofficial things like baking or carpentry still use traditional units but everything you buy is dual labeled. When will this meme die?
@@lookoutforchrisWhen the average American starts using metric in daily life and can use it without needing a conversion chart.
It’s not a meme but a reality for the vast majority of average Americans.
It was taught and dropped where I grew up because the teachers did not understand it either
@@memyoldie Do you have a wrench or socket set? Metric. Ever bought a 2L soda, 500ml or 750ml bottle of something? Metric.
Was the same way in schools in the 60s; we were told that america would soon all be metric - DID NOT Happen. Some items are gradually changing. I now own both Metric and Imperial wrench sets. And yes, definitely need conversion charts. Having worked in building military equipment, much of the designs are still in imperial units. Have NEVER heard of a 2"x 4" piece of wood in metric units. So, it all depends on the industry and circumstances which unit is used. It was actually quite disappointing that NASA and its subcontractors could miss Mars because of using different units of measure.
We can travel to any other state without showing ID and no passport needed😊 I live in the Midwest and I do not particularly like to fly it is about a17 hour drive to Florida by car, I’ve driven it many time’s, it is much further drive to the west coast so I fly there, the US is a lot larger than what a lot of people realize 😊
Most americans dont even have a passport.
@@robertharris6092 43% have passports
@@kathyharmon2093 Which means 57% don't have passports. Which is 'most'. And I live in Houston, drove 17 hours to Orlando a few years ago. No stopping except for fuel and coffee. Glad there is another road warrior out there like me haha
We are driving to Florida from Arizona and it’s a lovely 30 hour drive. Lol
@@ashleyrocha1028 And over half of it is just getting across Texas
Re: The fruits and veggies;
The video I think references corner stores and gas stations fruit and veggie sections. In proper grocery stores, we have multiple ailes or whole sections of the store dedicated to fruits and vegetables. I've never before heard anyone say that a non north american grocery store had more of anything than a north american store. I'm calling BS on that one.
Depends on where you live and what store you go to. Larger-size grocery stores tend to have larger produce sections. That being said, most grocery stores have a produce section that take up about 1/10 of the store space.
Yah same. We have a giant fresh produce section at all the grocery stores around here!
I agree -- most of our supermarkets have huge produce sections. I've rented self-catering places in several countries in Europe so I've visited quite a few stores, and have never found the variety of fresh foods that we have in the USA.
Disagree. Although we have an aisle or section dedicated to produce, we have 11 other aisles with processed food. In many countries produce is bought daily from street vendors. I don't think they are talking about corner stores or gas stations.
@@susanhenderson3369 So? We have a whole section dedicated to fresh produce. So what if there is more processed food? That doesn't mean the fresh food isn't available - it has no bearing on fresh produce at all.
Remember, 50 States, many of which are the size and population of countries in Europe. If people could travel to 49 other countries without a passport, they would not have them either.
Not to mention very large natural barriers - the oceans. You can build tunnels under small bodies of water. The Atlantic or Pacific Oceans? In addition - what is the intent of the travel? Amusement parks? Wilderness? Here in Arizona we have mountain, lakes, deserts, huge forests, and an insanely large canyon. Just in this one state we have Flagstaff, which gets cold and has a lot of snow, and we have Yuma - a city in the Sonoran Desert (which is 100,000 sq miles in size) where it can hit over 120degF in the summer (Lake Havasu City holds the Arizona record; 124degF, Death Valley in California has the world record of 134degF). Warm oceans (southeast US), cold ones (western US), a national park that is 1200 sq miles in size (3000 sq km) (Yosemite)... Florida has an underwater state park. Any climate from subtropical to tundra.
The size of things boggles some Americans, too. The COUNTY I live in, Maricopa County in Arizona, is larger than several US STATES - Rhode Island, Delaware, Connecticut, Hawaii, New Jersey, Massachusetts, New Hampshire. To drive (east-west) across the county, at speed limits anywhere from 55mph to 75mph, takes over two hours. Just driving from the east to west sides of the Phoenix metro area is an hour (Apache Junction to Goodyear, although you could make a case for Gold Canyon to Buckeye...).
@@apollokokkinokapelo9547 Arizona is almost as nice as Idaho :)
States are starting to make it so you can't travel by plan without a passport now though
@@sewerrat7612…really, do tell??? Which states are requiring a passports???
@@uhn-uh-bash-id-lee-k-ran Federal starting the program currently you can't get on a plane in nj without either a passport or a new type of ID only know because I had to cancel vacation plans to see family because dmv couldn't fit me in for new ID
US uses both Imperial and Metric units side-by-side. It just depends on context, and we generally use whichever makes the most sense in that context. Grams are used all over the place when it comes to food. Liters too, but not as much. Distances and temperatures, we use Imperial, because these units make more sense from a human perspective. A mile is essentially 1000 paces. 0-100 Fahrenheit is basically the temperature range of the temperate climate that most of us live in. A lot of volume measurements are basically just based on food and drink portions, which makes sense for cooking and serving. People like drinking a pint of beer. People like to drink a cup of coffee. The size of the spoon you'd use to stir your tea, that's what you'd use for measuring ingredients when baking. We have no problem switching over to metric for scientific calculations. The military uses metric for interoperability with allied nations.
Metric has that multiples-of-10 thing going for it, but that's about it. The units aren't very intuitive and are generally based around obscure scientific measurements that regular people have no context for. A lot of times they have either far too much precision or not enough, in the human experience. Imperial measurements are designed around division by 2 and other prime integers, which is easier for splitting things up, and even architectural projects. There's a reason why there's 360 degrees in a circle, not 1000. It just divides easier by more numbers. That's the same reason we have 36 inches in a yard, 36 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, and 18. Useful!
So, personally, I think it's a hard sell to get Americans to switch over. We've had plenty of experience with both systems, but nobody here is seriously trying to switch us over completely to one or the other. We just take the best of both worlds.
Something I learned recently is also how much Americans drive vs the rest of the world. Things are often more spanned out with infrastructures that require you to drive to get anywhere. I think drinking and driving might be a bigger issue here and having a higher drinking age may help lower drinking and driving car accidents
Yes, you also made me realize that with everything spaced out more, it costs us more to go anywhere, and depending where you live, you almost HAVE to have a car in order to be anything other than struggling. So add gas, insurance, maintenance etc of just having a vehicle because without it you might not be able to even have an income. I believe life in general and the day to day for americans probably costs more, limiting our ability to have those funds to see the places we want to see. Ugh pack on not having or getting or being able to afford time off from work or even paid vacation time, and we're all stuck in a stupid cycle of overwork and stress. 👍
As someone who is from America, we would love to have longer vacations, even if it's within the country. We are highly over worked which is why we are so stressed out at young ages. I'm only 26 and I already have joint and muscle issues from working so much.
Over-Worked, Under-Paid, Under-Appreciated
@@joshualiquori8237 I have not had a vacation in five years. A European company owns my firm now- can't say which, that's one of the rules and no I'm not a secret agent, this is more common than many people think- and even _they_ are unhappy with the amount of time we get off...yet I have not been able to take an actual vacation in five years. It's called greed. One co-worker of mine is actually _criticized_ for the amount of time he schedules for vacations, and the guy works so much overtime that even when he takes a week off in a month, he actually only loses a day or two, becasue our PTO system says that if you work OT, you use the OT hours first (straight time regarding pay, too) first, instead of PTO. So the guy works 100 hours in two weeks, that's half a week's PTO he is _forced to retain_ but they still get unhappy with the vacaction time he takes. Explain THAT to me with a straight face!
Americans don’t have enough time off or make enough money to travel extensively although we would love to. And passports are expensive.
Many of us in America would love to travel abroad, but first have to fly long- expensive- distances to those countries. Once we get there, we have minimal time to stay due to our comparatively short vacay days. As an RN, I had to work for the same employer more than 10 years before getting 3 weeks off. And, by then I had a lovely little daughter who would have also required a ticket, a newly built house, and newer car. And, my wages barely kept up with the true cost of inflation, making an exotic vacation to Africa, Morocco, etc even less of an option....
31 years old. American. Had to have knee surgery in January; almost am finished with therapy. Will have to have knee surgery on my left leg when my right one heals.
There is a different TH-camr I watched that was coming to the US for the first time for a week, and somehow thought that he could see the two seaboard ends of the country from top to bottom in that time. The number one surprising thing about the US is just how big the country really is. Keeping that in mind, a vacation in our own country doesn’t mean that we don’t see something new. Very few people have been to all 50 states, and most states are large enough to get to see more than maybe a city in that vacation.
We get that in Australia too. I remember someone asking the best places to visit other than the capital cities, they were intending to visit them all, but wanted to know what to do with the rest of their 10 days holiday to make the most of the rental car and self driving holiday.
Yeah, if you're driving yourself, you ain't even seeing each state... 15,000km to visit all the cities.
Was it drach I know he want to do that.
Yeah most people will not be able to visit every country, the us is so big it's expensive to fly to another coast
People in the eastern part of America really have no concept of how incredibly large the western states are.... So it's not really a surprise that people from other countries can't fathom the size of America.
@@Rainy1dae who are you talking to in the east??!!
It’s impossible for you two to be more adorable than you are 😊 Love from our family in Chicagoland ♥️
I so enjoy you two. Thanks for making so many videos and please keep it up.
As for the prescription drug thing. When I was growing up, 1960s and 70s, in the US it was illegal to advertise prescription drugs. Big Pharma lobbied the government and it is now legal. I agree with you. Not a good idea.
Furthermore, back in the 70's it was legal for cigarette companies to advertise on television. Now it is illegal for cigarettes to be advertised because it would encourage kids to smoke, but its ok for prescription drug commercials to tell kids "if you take this drug you will be happy all the time, just ask your doctor for it". Kind of destroys the free speech argument, its just a matter of greed and lobbying on the part of the pharmaceutical companies.
@@erickaklippert8983 I couldn’t agree with you both more. Greed is the name of the game now. I’m so sick of prescription drugs being pushed down our throats (literally) for every symptom there’s a disease. For every made up disease there’s a drug. No cure because it doesn’t make big pharma rich. So sad!! 😤😠
I kinda like it. If something is available to treat your condition, ask your doctor about it. Not all Drs read up on the newest medication.
@@LJBSullivan and then you get money a few years later from the class action lawsuit for taking the thing you asked your doctor about. win/win
@@LJBSullivan Exactly!
It took me 20 years at my job to get 5 weeks vacation in the US. The rest of the world, particularly Europeans, just have to travel a couple of hundred miles to be in another country. We have to fly over an ocean just to get to Europe. Anyway, we have such a diverse climate and topography and we do have millions of people who's ancestors came from almost every country in the world. The world is here.
Boarding pets is very expensive in the US, too. So if you have more than 1 pet and no house sitter to care for them, it costs a fortune between plane fare, lodging, eating & pet boarding!
Different states can feel like different countries sometimes...
Angel A. Yeah we have a lot of natural sites and modern to visit, but Europe and Asia have a lot of historical sites. Would love to be able to afford a trip out of country.
I worked for 2 years to get a week off
@lazarus921 you're correct as the Italian food in Italy versus the U.S. tastes totally different; it is much lighter, fresher, and tastes better.
In my state they tried to raise wages a few years back...to bring wait staff's wages up to match the average wage for the area. The wait staff rejected it after a couple months because they made a lot more money through tips than they did with the wage raise.
As far as your question about Teachers, at least at the school I work at, Teachers get most of the Summer off along with Christmas break (10ish days Dec-Jan), Winter break (1 week in FEB) and Spring break (1 week in Apr). Although I work at the school I am not a teacher, so my Summer vacation consists only of the month of July.
I am an American 5th grade teacher. I get a lot of days off! 2 months in summer, 2 weeks at Christmas, 1 week for Thanksgiving, 1 week for spring break plus I get 5 days from the state to take as I please.
I was taught the metric system in the 7th grade. We were told that the USA would convert to the metric system within 20 years. That was 43 years ago. However mechanics and other professions may use metric tools.
@Shannon R They were trying to globalize us even back then. It was very easy to learn. Much easier than Algebra 😉
When I was in school (60's-70's), we kept hearing we would be converting to metric system. Never happened. Then when I was teaching elementary grades (80's until 2017) we did teach the metric system within our measurement units. along with customary measurements (US). Students grasped the metric system more easily overall but of course, we had to really focus on the US system they would use that in everyday life.
American cars use standard, foreign cars are metric, so you have to have both in your toolbox.
@@Ogrematic Old American cars use standard. The newer ones it could be a mix. It is not a big deal, one wrench fits or another fits tighter. Wood size is still imp. measure referenced even if the factories have metricized 1/2"=13mm. Just so long as the guy measuring and the guy cutting is USING the same measure. It don't matter. If one speaks English and the other Swahili, then there is a problem.
Jimmy Carter want to change us to the metric system.
"Does that mean you can travel state-to-state on a photo id?" - Millie. There is no restrictions at all to go state-to-state. You don't need an ID to do it. If you are driving across state boarders you will need a driving license of course but the license could be one from any state. They are valid anywhere in the US.
I think she meant flying.
@@tiffanyest85 Millie is meaning crossing the border between states. In EU, they have to show papers even going between countries although they are now a "union". For Americans, we can cross state borders and keep on driving.
For flying, we have to show ID for security reasons, nothing more. Before the TSA, we only needed ID to pick up the correct tickets.
I think people forget also that there are extreme differences in climate and scenery in the US alone. Florida is way different then California or Washington state. So to stay in the US to travel is like being able to visit England then Germany all within the same week. Size of the continent matters a lot.
Only need Id if your driving or flying. If you a passenger in a car you don't need anything. (Long as you don't get into some police trouble of course) even then. You just need name and birth so they can look you up. Don't have to carry it on you
* borders
We travel, occasionally outside the US. But it is over 2000 mile from where I live to the other side of the US and there is so much to see.
This video randomly came up on my feed today…. What a treat! You two are so sweet together and soooo likable. Good going! Also, I live in Los Angeles…totally American. Subscribed! 💚
When the voting age became 18 in the 1970s, many state legislatures, wanting to make a new voting block happy and dropped the drinking age to 18. HOWEVER, the result was a significant spike in teen deaths from car accidents caused by intoxication. So much so that two major groups led the call to re-raise the drinking age to 21. Mothers Against Drunk Driving aka MADD for obvious reasons. The 2nd group was THE INSURANCE companies. Because of the money they were shelling out in settlements.
I'm glad you mentioned this. To add, my understanding for why we can drive or have guns earlier is because many states are rural and often the kids on farms would need to be able to drive and shoot a gun to help and be safe on the farm. City kids, not so much, but they keep the laws uniform it seems. Not sure why voting and joining the military or marriage is at 18.
The drinking age was dropped because Boomers wouldn't shut up about being drafted into Vietnam yet not being able to legally drink.
Yes and it is a very good reason. Teens are stupid. Drunk teens behind the wheel if a car are recklessly stupid. I'm assuming most teens in England don't go racing down rural back roads after a 5th of Jack Daniels to crash head on into a car driven by a mother with her three children killing them all including themselves.
the drinking age was dropped to 18 because we argued if we could be drafted and die for this country at 17 we should be able to drink.
You can travel from one state to another freely like driving from one city to another. Don't need to show an ID or passport of any kind. Just drive on through wherever you want to go.
True about the food. I usually can get three meals out of one food dish at a restaurant. I always take stuff home.
The reason the drinking age was tied to highway funds was because of the high rate of teenage drunk driving incidents. The age was lowered to 18 in the mid 1970s in most states but by 1984 studies showed that it had led to many more accidents do to drunk driving.
4:20 - I didn't read that study, but as a former waitress of 5 years I disagree. Good customer service is definitely more rewarded. There is also some guilt tripping going on - if you are a very nice and go above and beyond for your clients, they just feel it's rude to leave a small tip. There are exceptions, of course, but where I worked (Italian restaurant) - good service = more money.
But if someone's base pay is less than $3 an hour, it is worse than rude to let them spend their time waiting on you, and not pay them enough so that they can generate a living income.
@@lindajohnson4204 In general, the waitresses I've heard comment on this have said they prefer to be paid in tips, because the good ones get paid more than the bad ones, and the good ones get paid a lot more than they would if they just received a standard wage. Our DMV would be a good candidate for people who should get paid in tips. They might actually work a little better.
Used to know a girl who worked at a slightly up scale BBQ restaurant as a waitress. She would routinely bring home $350 to $400 a day. An atypical slow day would still have her bringing home nearly $250. And for those who don't know, in a six hour shift, $250 comes out to nearly $42 an hour.
@@Nezumis Where in the hell is THIS place?
@@ponytailalogginalong6605 It's somewhere in Phoenix, AZ. I can't remember the name of the place, but it's pretty common for waiters to make decent money. The average waitress at the local IHOP will bring in roughly $200 a day on an eight hour shift. That's $25 an hour. My roommate's daughter worked there as a first job out of high school.
When I use to have vacations, theres so much to see and do in my country so my vacations were spent here. I did go to Cancun once. Had a great time.
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The reason school is off for 2 months in the summer harkens back to when America was an agricultural society. Kids were needed to work on the farm. Even though there are so many cities now and America is highly industrial, the two months off in the summer remain. This has nothing to do with the vacation time workers get because that summer break was not initially intended as a vacation.
Also, teachers don't get paid during the summer. It's not a vacation.
Alot of schools don't have air conditioning so school in the summer would be unbearable.
@@catstreat9434 Actually, it may be different from state to state, but in my state, teachers are able to choose how they’re paid. They can get paid only for the mos. they work (& make more money during those mos. & none during the summer break), or they can get paid year round (making less each month). Either way, they still make the same amt., it’s just dispersed differently. Also, some teachers elect to teach summer school to make more money.
Kids from rural areas still help harvest, and they have off school still to do that.
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Funny you should mention that. Indeed my schools let out in the first week of June. One year, we had a horrendous winter plus a teachers strike (for much - deserved increased pay). First I was bored out of my gourd when classes weren't open still in February, I think, and when the strike was over, we had to make up the school days, and it was nearly the end of June when we finally finished. There was no air conditioning because they didn't need to. But I think they changed that after that year, and I started seeing A/C units (the big units from Trane) in every classroom.
Edit: every scorching day in June (heat _plus_ humidity!) I would complain, "It wasn't my fault!" indeed complaining about how tortuous the weather was without air conditioning in the classrooms was. And open windows didn't help. There was no good way for air to flow, and it was just too hot anyway.
7:50 there are no border checkpoints between states. How you know you’ve come to a different state is the giant sign aside the road with the state’s name and a state travel center shortly after (at least on major highways)
Depends on the state There are some checkpoints going into CA. They used to check for produce coming in to control fruit fly infestation of crops. Now they usually just wave everyone through.
@@gwenj5419 well most of America dont claim California LOL
@@catherinebenton3637 ma'am...that's Florida and NY
The mile marker changes.Sometimes, the roads can also change slightly as it was paved by the other state.
@@catherinebenton3637 and the rest of us don't claim them ☺
TIP stands for To Insure Promptness. It is an incentive for the server to do well. Alsomost food servers are often underpaid the minimum wage. However when I was in London in 1975, 15% was added to our bill at the Hotel restaurant and to room service. Back then in the US the average tip was 8%.
I am a secondary teacher. We do get time off, 2 months at summer (ish... A lot of that is trainings and plannings and setting up the classroom time) , and a week in Spring, a week for Thanksgiving, 2 weeks for Christmas break. Some states have a long weekend in the Fall as well. "Fall Break"
BUT.... We are paid for 10 months, although it's split among the 12. (Some states give an option to get paid 10 or 12 months, some only pay 10 and teachers often find a summer job to get by) So technically, we are just off work for the two months..... That we are doing trainings and getting ready for the next school year, with some relaxation in between.
I can watch the original video if I want to see it without any interruptions. I come to your channel to listen to your reactions. Frequent pauses are not only expected, but welcomed.
Unless its music...
If I'm a fan of the song, I'm wanting you to hear the flow, how the song "goes", to properly appreciate it, and then a longer reaction at the end.
@@williamhogge5549 Yes, songs are written to be heard in their entirety. This also allows the viewer/listener to build their own opinion. Comments afterwards; if the reviewer wants to replay portions and talk about it-perfect.
I wouldn’t say Millie was confused but merely sticking up for the individual rights of her fellow human, thus re-confirming she’s a legitimate honorary American 😂😂
You don't need to show ANY ID to cross state lines within the US. You just drive, there's no state border guards or checkpoints. Usually there's a sign on the side of the highway (motorway?) that says "Welcome to ___!" or sometimes "[state] Governor _ welcomes you to __!" and very easy to miss. That's it. At least for show.... we're very "united" :p
Did you know that the word TIP is actually an acronym? It comes from the old days when you would be a regular customer at a restaurant and the staff would come to know and remember you by your tipping practice. Therefore the next time you went to a restaurant, you, as a good tipper, would get excellent service: To Insure Promptness = TIP
The drinking age was changed because there were too many accidents caused by people who were 18-21 which in the US is the college years. Even now, in most places, you can't rent a car to drive till you are 25 unless you are married.
Yet you can fight for the country.
With many 18 year olds still in school it became to easy for younger kids to get the booze. I feel that any one with an active service ID card they should be able to to drink near their basis
Renting a car is not the same as DRINKING. One requires a valid bank account that has money in it. The other requires immediately.
nonsense.
Interesting history fact:
The idea of "cheese in a can" came from the US trying to come up with food products that could make it across the atlantic to help the UK during the world wars.
It then stuck around as a conveinent novelty.
History is a fantastic thing ain't it
First I love you guys adding your thoughts to videos. Most states you can drive alone at 16. Some states have started charging the age to buy tobacco to 21, but it was 18 for the entire country going back to around the Vietnam War. As far as getting married you can get married young, but you might need your parents/ guardian to sign off on it. Most activities that are considered adult activities you can do at 18. I love ice in most of my drinks or I keep them in the refrigerator. When I can I will add ice even if the drink was already in the refrigerator. This includes alcohol, but that’s my personal preference.
I'm an iceaholic
My cousin is a teacher. Students get two months off. Teachers get less than a month off. Also, when teachers finally go home at the “end “ of the day, they take home the tests, reports, and research papers the students turned in that day. These all need to be read, corrected, and graded. Not to mention, the next days lessons must be planned.
Etc., etc., etc…..
As to passports, remember the US is about as large as the EU and you can travel for thousands of miles without needing a passport. For that matter, prior to 9/11 we didn't even need passports to travel to Canada or Mexico. With that much of North America open to nearly anyone, why would you get a passport unless you were leaving the continent (and not even then if you were going to Hawaii).
I also didn’t need a passport then to visit the Bahamas.
You can travel only a few hours in Europe and you will be in a different country, different language, different customs. US you can drive for a days and still be in the country. Same with Russia.
@@lauranichols945 exactly what I was thinking. I have traveled to Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, and St. Thomas from the US without a passport
@@andie22311 Puerto Rico is part of the US.
@@MannyBrum kinda/sorta...
The drinking laws vary across states, although the age 21 thing is in place. Some states allow underage drinking when parents are present, etc. It varies from state to state. Besides... making something "illegal" does not guarantee 100% compliance.
Same as driving ages, legal sexual ages, gun laws/ages and marriage laws in each state. Which is why it can get very confusing for not only people outside of the US but those who live here too.
Huh. No way. They be a fool to serve underage.
@@Brandi6666 when I was living in Green Bay, Wisconsin in the late 90's I was allowed to drink at 16 while I was with my Mom and Stepdad at any bar we went to.
@@jerridcook8811 I was going to say the same thing. Wisconsin you can drink as long as you are with your parent or legal guardian
It used to be 18 or even 16 in places until the Federal government tied highway funding to setting the drinking age to 21. That's too much money to give up, so of course there's widespread compliance because there's cash on the line.
“Because we want to be respectful”. ……how refreshing!
Hi there! I’m a teacher in the US. We are currently on summer break. School schedules vary state to state but in Louisiana teachers officially work 182 days of the year. However, we teach for 40 hours per week and usually bring home approximately an extra 1 1/2 + hours per day of grading, planning & documentation. We are also required to supervise after school/weekend sporting events, dances, & ceremonies without pay. Most of us sponsor clubs (not mandatory but if we don’t the kids receive no enrichment) which puts another 5+ hours of unpaid work on our weekly schedule. We are unfortunately the lowest paid members of our professional communities. So, yes! We absolutely get far more “days off” than the average American. The reality is that we are often still working on those days.
Please don’t apologize for pausing and talking during the videos! That’s why we’re here, to witness your reaction. You are the channel, not the video. The uninterrupted, non-Beesley version is available elsewhere.
I love what you do, don’t change!
I absolutely agree! I would love this video no matter how long it is, as long it is listening to your comments!
You should consider the ice issue when it comes to cup size. Even though the US cups are bigger they are filled with ice so there is less actual soda in them.
I had a friend who would order their drinks without ice because they felt the ice was the restaurant cheating them out of a full cup of soda.
I do this, mainly because I don't like super cold drinks but also don't want to be cheated either.
On the other hand, most places offer free refills
Yeah, but there's free refills literally EVERYWHERE! Also, with the large amount of ice, the rate of melting is delayed due to the drink being closer to 32F. The extreme cold also helps retain the dissolved C02 in the beverage, thereby making it enjoyable for longer.
@@beernmetal6964 I find the opposite to be true. Even if it melts only a little, it changes the flavor of the soda for the worse. I hate diluted sugar water flavor.
You just have to say no ice and you'll get a full glass of soda. The person chooses how they want it.
TIPS mean ‘to insure prompt service’. Also you can go anywhere in America-don’t need anything to cross state lines. There’s nothing but weigh stations for semi trucks crossing instate lines. 16k! That’s a lot more than your 2 or 3!
The way we write the dates is easy to explain. We write them the way we say them. We say February 1st 2022 (02/01/2022) not 1st of February 2022. (01/02/2022) The 4th of July (Independence Day) is the only real exception to the way we phrase our dates.
The drinking age was lowered for a few years; however, there were more deaths from drinking and driving. The drinking age was raised and the mortality rate for 18-21 year olds went down.
fair but that has a lot to do with education on the matter.....also sudden exposure to it i think......i am german so i was allowed to drink low alcohol content drinks from the age 16. here in rural germany i was surrounded by my parents my older sister and just people that already knew alcohol and they would let me nip and try things....i never was really drunk until my besties 19 birthday which also had a lot of older teen and young adults there so teen don't really drink alone they are allowed to test their limits but they are supervised....i know this can be different in cities where teen go to clubs and such but all in all it can and does work (also children/teen have the stupid habit of doing exactly what they are told not to do so it's not like the teens in america don't drink thats just teen live)
When I was in high school the drinking age was 18. There were many kids who had turned 18 before graduating from high school which made alcohol readily available to much younger students. I think that may have been one of the reasons for the push to raise the drinking age.
I think that there's a huge difference between having a drink, drinking and getting wasted (binge drinking). There's no middle in America... it's either one extreme or the other...
Paying wait staff less, the business likes that, it also keeps food prices down which draws more customers. The wait staff loves getting tips at good popular restaurants, they can make way more money than being paid a normal hourly salary. Also, it does help to improve the service provided.
Worked different seacoast resorts during the summers growing up. As a waiter, had I been stuck with just the hourly pay for the time, I would have made about $400 a week, but with being primarily on tips, I made over $1000 a week.
I was a server for over 8 years... tipping was up to the customer. Sometimes I was left nothing, sometimes a small amount, sometimes a good tip. I literally made $2.18 an hour. Outrageous highway robbery, I had trouble making ends meet often.
I was waitress back in college and it was awful!! The kitchen messes up an order and that usually meant no tip for me.
Never seen your channel before, spotted the Millers in the back! I'm in Wickersley/Bramley!
*Badly sings neighbours theme*
No worries about pausing, it's a reaction video after all! Millie's confusion about the drinking age is perfectly understandable. And yes, in my state, the driving age is 16, you can marry/join the military/smoke/own a rifle at 18, and legally drink at 21. Love you guys!
The drinking age in Texas was 18 in 1978 for me and since I didn't graduate until I was 19 I was able to go to any bar in Dallas buy any type of alcohol my entire senior year, I had some fun times but really it wasn't a big deal
The federal law for smoking is 21 I believe.
@@brianabc83 yeah I'm pretty sure it is. Was changed from 18 to 21 in a lot of states like 2 or 3 years ago.
@@brianabc83 vaping as well and owning a handgun.
In many states you can actually get a special provisional license to drive as young as 14! Most people don't know about this, because it is exceedingly difficult to accomplish and kids just don't have many reasons to drive that young. Hell, many people don't get a license for many years after they turn 18! My nephew is 21 (22 in july) and he doesn't have a license, though he does have mild cerebral palsy and would have quite the effort to get it.
I agree with the other people from the US in the comments section about vacations. There are so many things to see in the US, and getting to any other countries besides like Canada and Mexico is not only expensive, but the big time changes make it hard on your body too. If you're in California going to England, I believe it's an 8 hour time difference, and a hell of a flight.
I have a large extended family, and most of them live within a few hours of each other aside from my immediate family. So we would always spend a lot of vacation time every year going to the opposite side of the country to see relatives instead of going on other kinds of trips. Because our family lives so far away, we'd only see them once or twice a year, and if we took vacations elsewhere we'd never get to see them
I remember when I was in the navy and flew back home from yokosuka japan to Michigan. I would be in the air 12 hours and land 2 hours before I took off. And would have to leave over a day before I had to be back just to get there in time
Peanut butter is very cheap and it is easy to pair with different things (jam, jelly, chocolate, marshmallow, banana) so you aren't eating the same thing over and over every single day. When you can make a loaf of bread and a small jar of peanut butter make 15 meals for under $7, you tend to buy and eat a lot of pb.
I believe one of the reasons our cups are so large is because we do fill our cups up with ice first, then add the drink. A 12 oz soda will fill a 24 oz cup if filled with ice first. 😁
Also, in the summer my state can get to 112 degrees F (44.44 degrees C) sometimes even hotter, so Ice is one of the ways we keep cool.
You didn't mention the most popular pairing for peanut butter during the great depression peanut butter and mayo sandwich
@@spencergouveia7449 yeah, not one I ever plan to try XD but I do know people who eat that.
My favorite way to make fun of the drug advertisements is to say: "If you die or are currently dead from (drug name) fatal side effects, please call this number - "
My favorite is, “Do not take [drug name] if you are allergic to [drug name] or any of its ingredients.” Well, how do I know I’m allergic if I’ve never taken it, and did you really expect me to read that wall of fine print you showed for less than a second? How do I know which of these chemicals I might allergic to?
Okay I've been a waitress for over 20 years and it is very nice when someone leaves you a big tip and tells you what a great job you've done it makes your day and half the time it makes your rent.
If wait staff were paid a proper wage, tipping would not be necessary.
@@donjackson5522 yes you are technically correct. However customers would pay a lot more for the food, and servers would end up making less. I work in a great place now and it's hard work but I'm good at my job I take pride in my work and I make pretty good money on average, well above the proposed 15$ minimum wage. On the other end say working at Denny's you make a lot less so I don't know what would work for everyone.
@@lavondabland3179 Same here, I work as a waitress in a very high volume bar in Atlanta. It's very hard work, but with so many people served each night I work, I make more than the living wage. The tipping system works for me. I'm fortunate, but also feel bad for my fellow servers at diners & restaurants that don't have the same earning capacity and their employers don't look out for their welfare by paying them properly.
@@donjackson5522 if people would cook at home more they could stop complaining about tips!
Tips stands for To Insure Promt Service shouldn't tip normal Service
you two are quickly becoming one of my favorite channels to watch
Definitely
Sorry, not mine. Here's some advice: Please use subtitles. I could barely understand you and had to turn off the video.
@@Shan_Dalamani definitely one of my favorites. I can understand them just fine!
@@Shan_Dalamani you see that "button" that reads 'cc' on your screen it means "close captions" you can turn it on yourself or go to settings.
Glad I could help.
@@billgreen1861 When the captions don't make sense, it doesn't help. Thanks for trying. Just accept that there are some people whose voices and speech patterns grate on my nerves and I choose to avoid them.
No reply is necessary or wanted.
Traveling state to state - there are no requirements to enter/leave a state. You just drive/fly there, no documentation required. Even more confusing: If you want to visit Canada or some areas of Latin America, you don't even need a passport depending on your destination. But best to have a passport ready, just in case.
Teacher is the U.S. here! It varies depending on where you teach but here is how my district works. We start school the beginning of August to the end of May. We are given 5 days for “fall break in October, 10 days in December for Christmas, and 5 days in March for spring break. For summer break, we are off for 2 weeks in June and about a week and a half in July. (During those summer “weeks off” we have to go to school to prep classrooms.) We also only get paid for 10 months of the year. Hope this helps! Love your videos!
Apparently "non Americans" just don't know what's up...
PEANUT BUTTER IS LIFE!!!
lol
Not only does it make a great sandwich, it's great for dessert foods as well. Peanut butter cups? Come on...
Or even better, peanut butter cup ICE CREAM. lol
Peanut butter cookies are pretty good too.
I grossed my host family out when I made a pj sandwich when I was in the uk in 85
Great pantry stable food too.
Peanut butter was invented here also makes it a homegrown hero.
Yes 👍🏼 How can you not love
peanut 🥜 butter😋
I agree! Peanut butter is the best! It can be the main part of your meal, your dessert, and also a snack. The perfect food!
Before 1984 the drinking age was set by state and it was either 18, 19 or 20 in most of them. Then Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) kind of forced the government to do something about drunk driving. One part of this was the Federal Government held infrastructure funds from the states until they raised the limit to 21. It took about 4 years for all states to comply.
The drinking age was lowered in the 1970s from 21 down to 18, based on state choice. It was a result of the Vietnam War where the complaint was they can be drafted, go to war but not order a beer. I was allowed to drink at 18. By the time I had gotten out of the Army in 1977 they were taking the age back up in different states. Those who were allowed to drink at age 18 were grandfathered in as they turned 19 and 20. By 1984, if your state did not have a minimum drinking age of 21, you'd lose Federal Highway dollars. Yes, MADD had a hand in it, but a lot of state had already put through laws raising it back up.
I might suggest that they do a little research on MADD and how it came about, as well as the decrease in deaths due to drunk drivers.
Unfortunately there still are so many that drink and drive that we still have way, way to many innocent deaths on the highway.
As for the can’t drink but you can… (fill in the blank), yeah, these are true, but that does not mean that it is a good idea to lower the drinking age. Alcohol has a lot of problems that those other things you can do younger don’t have…
Oh yeah, and if you are in the military… you will find a way to drink if you want to. Just don’t get stupid with it.
Mom said in late 70's in TX it was 17 yrs. Bc that was the age they let guys enlist. Been 21 however that is why highschool girls date college boys and they buy the booze for parties. If it is a football TX championship party very common to have the dad with a shotgun out on the edge of land. He radios out to party host COPS! And we have few minutes to run and hide. I have a passport but its rare. Don't need it.
Edit: we scatter through barbwire and cactus. I remember wearing a "Tommy H all terrian gear" shirt. That and thorn bushes. Maybe rattle snakes. My sister was wearing platform shoes and one broke! She was a cheerleader so untouchable. I ran like track star I am and eventually she caught up. We hid like Vietnam soldiers cops sweeping flashlights across.
Edit 2: in TX you are married you can buy booze.
I've been to Italy and Germany, not UK but Europe. Strange things for me being charged for pats of butter and toilet paper attendants in public restrooms that literally give you allotted TP.
Such a WTF moment.
I think the only time Americans switch MM/DD/YYYY to DD/MM/YYYY is when we say "The Fourth of July" for our independence day. That is the only day I think we say it that way.
I love seeing how other countries see us. It's very interesting to me.
I don't. They usually see the US as inferior to them and arrogant. I wouldn't spend a penny visiting Europe. Snobs. Arrogant enough for you? 🇺🇲😁
Totes
People very rarely note that the sales taxes in the US are much, much lower than most of Europe charges VAT
We briefly changed the drinking age during the Vietnam War to 18, the issue was seniors in school would come to school drunk and they would give or resell it to younger students who couldn’t legally but it. They were worried it would make us dumber than many of us already are
Fresh fruits and vegetables are so expensive tbh over here in the usa. Unfortunately it's way cheaper to eat the bad processed foods than fresh fruits and veg. That's one of the biggest things that I wish they would change.
Having worked in the restaurant industry and known many wait staff for various levels of restaurants (diners to five star), the Cornell study is bunk. Tips aren't random, and there are things you learn to do as a waiter that will increase your tips and things you do that will decrease your tips. A good waiter will make significantly more in tips than a poor or even average waiter, and the higher class the establishment the larger the difference becomes.
No one is made to tip. It’s a gesture reflecting the service, so tip what is felt to be appropriate. Servers do not get a minimum wage, so a tip helps.
I agree. I can't see a waiter working at, say, Cracker Barrel making the same kind of money as a waiter at a five star restaurant in D.C. or the snooty portion of NYC.
Tipping is expected at high end expensive restaurants too, not only at places that have cheap food, as you say. No one tips at McDonald's and other fast food places, and they have cheap food. The better high end restaurants are more selective when hiring wait staff. They try to hire the best because they want to offer more polished service and need to attract wealthy people. Sometimes famous wealthy customers get ratted out when they are poor tippers. And sometimes a celebrity will be in the news for leaving an extravagant tip. What would be nearly unforgivable is customer who demands a lot of time, attention, special requests, etc, and leaves no tip.
@@janew4609 Servers do get a minimum wage, just lower than other industries.
@@annep.1905 the customer turnover at Cracker Barrel would be faster, so there is a greater volume served, leading to a chance that a good waitress will outperform the posh restaurant counterparts. Also, more likely to have a trucker crowd with per diems who appreciate quality and speedy service.
The thing this video overlooks about American vacation days is that they're not generally differentiated from all other paid time off; I get 21 days per year, which is pretty good for the US. But it's all one pile that I have to dip into if I'm sick, or there's some other emergency of any kind. Especially for people who have kids, those days get eaten up very quickly.
And the narrator suggested that we don't get as many vacation days because we enjoy working...uh no lol
I think it's not differentiated because it's the same everywhere. I get no sick days. My job has no personal days, sick days, or anything of the sort. There's no such thing as an excused absence at my job. I hit 20 years with my company this year and I got to schedule 17 days vacation.
If I am sick and have to miss work for a day or two then I receive a hit each day and have to worry about falling in the disciplinary guidelines. If my sickness is bad then I fall under my companies accident and sickness guidelines but it has to be something that also falls under the Family Medical Leave Act. I'll still receive a hit, but just 1 for the entire time I am out.
My wife is on the other extreme. She earns something like 1 and 1/2 days of sick leave/personal time off each month. that time can accumulate and can be used anytime during the year. She also gets 10 days of vacation each year. That gives her 28 days off a year.
Yep, I would gladly take more vacation days…
The last time I had a private sector job that differentiated between sick days and vacation days was back in 1995. Then, about a year after I started there, they redid the time off structure and told us instead of getting 5 days of PTO and 3 days of sick time a year, suddenly we got 10 days of time off we could use any way we wanted.
When I asked for clarification, the HR monkey tried to act like we had the "freedom" to use those days as sick days or vacation days, any way we wanted. I learned to hate HR at that job. It took 25 years, but I finally got a job that had sick days and PTO separate. There are many things I hate about this job, but that benefit alone will keep me here.
At least you got em, I have 10 days vacation and 2.5 days sick almost 3 a year
I would love to join this discussion with my insight on these topics, it’s amazing what we learn :)
Btw, you have to be 18 to be eligible for military service. And you can drink on base or at military events from 18 yrs. old on up. We had beer machines in the day rooms back in the 70s.
To try to clarify the prescription drug part of this - the ads merely are saying "there MAY be help for you out there - Ask your Doctor" - so you go and discuss it with your Doctor and they will usually do testing to determine if the medicine you are asking about is safe for you to take or if it will do any good for your "problem". The info in the video you were watching gives the impression that all Americans have to do is ASK and VIOLA - you get it. That is NOT the case - Dr. are very careful when determining what medicine they give you and what they say NO to - The biggest determination "window" for Doctors to check on your problem and what they may give you for it is a Blood Test which can tell them A LOT about what your system is doing etc.
Tbh my family including myself never asked the doctor for a specific medication, we just get what he/she prescribes...maybe except OTC, but we usually decide when we are at the pharmacy not before.
There was a group called MADD, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, who campaigned in the 80's to raise the drinking age to 21, there main point was that most kids turned 18 while in high school and most began driving at 16, thus the rate of teenage drunk drivers was higher than in most countries. A few notorious deaths driving home at high school proms made the news and MADD lobbied the federal government to raise it. Between WWI and the Vietnam War, most states allowed drinking at 18 as if you were old enough to be drafted, you were old enough to drink.
That's when I joined "DAMM" Drunks Against Mad Mothers.
While I understand their point, I 100% agree with the fact that if you’re old enough to join the military & fire a gun, you should be allowed to drink! That said, I also believe that if you want that choice, you need to show the responsibility that is required to be drinking!
A friend of mine was killed drunk driving in high school. We all went to her funeral. She wasn't old enough to drink, but drinking laws are loosely dealt with.
@@JaimeDornanLady I was just going to say, if you're military, they should waive that law for them, but not otherwise.
@@ponytailalogginalong6605 I think our laws should be more like in Europe, but make sure the laws regarding drunk driving are strictly enforced. I served in the army and always felt the law was wrong, for 21 to be the drinking age. I remember when that was all being changed. Heck, I was a freshmen in high school while it was 21 in Delaware, but still 18 in New Jersey. There were seniors that would drive to Jersey, just to legally drink.
If you are a regular you may get better service because you are known to tip ok. If it's a random restaurant they dont know you, so it can'tt affect the service.
In terms of traveling, it costs $130 or more to get a passport, and most employers are not required to give employees ANY vacation days or sick days, and if they are required to offer vacation days, they usually only have to offer about 5 days (40 hours) of vacation per year. They might also only offer 2 or 3 sick days per year, so many people have to use vacation days to cover days they are sick.
The states aren't different countries (though sometimes it seems like it), so you don't need papers to move from one to the other, though you do need your license to drive that trip or to buy alcohol or tobacco during the trip. Also, a big contributing factor to not traveling internationally is the huge variety of places to go IN the country! The US is so incredibly diverse, both culturally and geographically, you'll never run out of things to see without having to go somewhere else. With sales tax, those taxes are actually much lower (generally speaking) than the VA taxes in other countries. I'm lucky to live in one of the lowest taxed areas in the country, with a total sales tax of 8.25% (state and local combined), no state income tax, and very low property taxes (don't know the actual rates there). All told, the government gets less than 15% of my entire wage. I hope to be able to send you two a few things soon for your unboxing videos. Now I know you want fridge magnets, I know what to shop for.
Sounds like you’re in Texas.
yes, they are. American States are sovereign republics. We are the equivalent of the EU.
You don't need papers to pass between States because the U.S. Constitution (aka the ruler of the US) says you don't.
The 17th amendment is an abomination that needs to be repealed (along with the 16th)
Texans we are.
I was confused with that part as a Canadian we don’t need a passport to travel within our country either. To travel from one area of England to another a passport isn’t needed so maybe it’s the size of our countries that makes them think we would or should.
Easily my favorite TH-camrs on the platform! But don't burn yourselves out trying to make good content, you are human after all.
I tipped the AAA driver $20 yesterday. Yes, we pay for AAA roadside service so we don’t normally tip them, but he spent about 10-15 minutes under the dash taking out an old brake controller from when we had a little trailer (caravan to you :). And we think that’s why the battery’s been draining and we have a frequent dead battery. So I was going to take it into the shop after he jumpstarted us - for the second time this week! So he did me a solid, I didn’t have to take it into the shop, so I tipped him 20 bucks. Normally if he just came out to do his job and jumpstart my car, I wouldn’t tip him at all.
I’ve traveled to Germany almost every year (not during Covid in 2020), and couldn’t afford it in 2022, over the last 6 years. But, I’m planning a trip in March 2023. I speak German fluently and have relatives and friends over there.
Talking about the legal age, I remember when my son was in the Navy one of his officers was making a speech and he laughed and said “consider these young people are responsible for million dollar equipment but let them go home and they aren’t trusted to drive the family car”. Everyone laughed but it’s so true
Can operate million dollar equipment but can't rent a hotel room or rent a car. My oldest was Navy. Hooyah
I was finance in the army and had worked in the cash cage some. Therefore I had, on an average day of counting funds, millions flow through my fingers. Yet, when I got out and applied to banks, I was told no, based on my lack of a credit score. 😤
@@sykotikmommy damn:(
There is an old mindset in the US that if your company can do without you for a week it can do without you permanently. It was common advice to make yourself irreplaceable by being the only person capable of a vital function, but the downside is that if you aren't there to do your job it stops other people from doing theirs. There was also the mindset that if the company was going to promote someone, they would prefer to promote someone who was willing to sacrifice their time for the company over someone who took time for themselves. These attitudes are changing, but culture moves slowly.
A large part of working so hard is the Protestant work ethic, but pagan practices did take over, and are much worse. I'd like to go back to Christian business practices.
Very true. I'm 50 - we were raised that way!
Millie, the public schools are open only about 180 days. The teachers have only a few more days for their instruction and planning.
No documents required to cross state lines, no border formalities at all. I used to cut through another state every day.
I remember my primary school teacher telling us the metric system was coming…in the late 1950’s.
Not only ads in TV, magazines, etc., the pharmaceutical business spends a lot of marketing to the doctors.
As an American who's moved to the UK, please let me point out another major issue that Americans working nowadays have to deal with - the mindset that wanting to be treated fairly by your workplace, to have a healthy work / life relationship, is lazy and literally un-Christian, which makes it un-American, because Christ help you if you can't pay your 10% tithe to the tax-free mega church you attend every Sunday like good Americans do. 🙄 They don't bother teaching mental health in the Bible Belt, because psychology is never mentioned in the Bible. So please Anne P., let's not go blaming those who don't attend The First Self-righteous Church of Christ's work ethic for why you've never left the county of your birth.
It's a huge problem in the US that Big Business pays good money via lobbying in Congress to make sure American workers don't get as many workers rights, and that more is left "for the company / Union to provide" than here in the UK. Perfect example for you: my father worked for 34 years at a company before it went suddenly bankrupt, then found out that the owners had paid themselves and the operating costs of the business with the retirement 401Ks of their workers. No one was arrested, nothing the worker's Union could / would do, except for the state stepping in to pay a pension for anyone who had been there for 35+ years. So, at the age of 56, my father had to go find another job and build up a retirement fund from scratch because his (non-Pagan, very Christian) bosses screwed over a whole workforce to keep their bills paid. The man couldn't stop working until he turned 70, just to keep HIS bills paid.
You can enlist in the military at 18. Also the drinking age use to be 18 yrs/o back in the 70s to the early 80s but changed because of a lot of teen drunk driving fatalities in my state of New Jersey at the time. You can get different grades of drivers licenses depending on your state here.
17 with parental permission.
You can get a driver's license at age 14 here in America if you live on a Farm or Ranch - farm/ranch kids learn how to drive farm machinery as well as vehicles at an early age by necessity and do mature quicker do to growing up with important responsibilities. Parents need their kids to be able to move farm machinery and vehicles from pasture to pasture or farm to farm etc...which sometimes requires driving on public roads. Therefore, if they can pass a basic sheriff's driving test and have the signature of a parent and the Principal from their school they will receive their license at 14yrs old.
@dawnfowler2194 yup you're right about the licenses
My cousin is a teacher and she really does not get the full summer break off. She still needs to make a lesson plan for the school year. And since she isn't working full time during the summer. She'll either teach summer school or give piano lessons at the school to make extra money.
Most surveys of waitstaff has found that they rather be tipped, as they make more than any of the proposed hourly rates would pay them. Also, many tips are in cash which may or may not get reported to the Government for income tax purposes.
dodging taxes is yet another reason to support tipping.
Something that often doesn't get mentioned in regards to tipping that I'd like to clarify for any non-Americans out there, at least in regards to restaurants. First, fast food, no tip. Tips are generally reserved for wait staff and there is no wait staff at a fast food joint.
Tips already on the bill. This is something that you generally only see in a very high end restaurant or /maybe/ a mid-range quality restaurant if you have a large number of people on the same bill. In those cases you'll see a line labeled "gratuity" that is typically an 18 or 20% tip that is already added on to your bill.
At most restaurants however the tip isn't built in and you're simply expected to either leave cash or add it on to the bill if paying with plastic. In this case, 15 to 20% is considered typical, but that might be adjusted higher or lower depending on the quality of the service.
It's also far more common when leaving cash to just round up to the nearest dollar rather than leave any change, unless you paid the bill with cash in which case you might leave the loose change you got back as part of the tip. Alternately you give a certain amount of cash and tell the wait staff to keep the change, indicating that the remainder is the tip.
When paying with plastic though it's more common to either see an exact percentage as the tip or see that percentage get rounded up so the total bill with the tip is an even dollar amount.
Also, when eating at a buffet style restaurant it isn't uncommon for the tip to be lower than normal simply because the wait staff is perceived to be doing less for you since they're only refilling your drinks and cleaning off the finished plates. For that matter, one of the best ways for wait staff to get better tips is to make sure you always have something to drink and glasses are never empty without a new drink waiting for you, but, to do this without being a constant nuisance that's always at the table asking if anyone needs a refill.
And related to that, when at the bar, $1 per drink is typically standard unless it's a very expensive bar, then consider somewhere between 15-20% of the total bill for the night as a tip depending on quality of service and quality of the drinks if you're drinking cocktails.
And we tip pizza delivery guys either when we order via phone by using the credit card or when they show up and give them cash. For other food delivery we also tip them but usually as part of the bill. People also tip hair stylist, bellman, doormen, and grocery delivery people.
All good points! Also...not every state has servers paid less than minimum wage. People always say that, but it depends on the state.
Tips automatically on a bill are usually only for parties of 6-10 or more
and if you are with a couple friends.. and one puts down a 25 percent tip - you can be sure they had been a waiter or bartender or something in their past
@@blueboy4244 I waited tables and I usually tip 15...unless I'm in a state where servers make less than minimum wage. That loophole of allowing less than the minimum on the assumption a person makes tips is just garbage.
There are a lot of places in the US that we don't or aren't suppose to tip. Many fast food restaurants, if you try to tip them they will refuse the tip since they can get fired for taking it. The sit down restaurants where you have a server that waits on you at the table are the ones you tip. Order at the counter and get your own drink places we don't tip.
Regarding tipping in America. The servers are taxed on the amount the government has established, as the amount of extra income they will receive regardless of the actual moneys they have received. If you don't tip, servers are charged that income regardless.
As a retired teacher, we are only paid for 180-183 days a year, depending on your schools contract. For most now, that pay is split between 12 months. So, all those days off that we get are unpaid days. Think of it this way. Do kids get taught by teachers when on holiday, breaks, and summer vacation? Teachers arent paid either! Teaching was not a well paid profession while I was teaching. Salaries, in Washington, did get better after I retired in 2016.
Salaries are at the bottom in Alachua County, FL. The University of Florida, which pays no property taxes, or even an impact fee for all of the property they aren't taxed on, cranks out new teachers constantly. Consequently, the School Board of Alachua County pays low teacher salaries, uses them, spits them out, and just hires newbees from recent UF graduates. This is one of the Florida Education System's best kept from the public secrets.
In all the low skilled jobs here in the states I dont think you get any vacation time, ive been working various jobs for roughly 20 years and I have yet to get any vacation time. Ive heard of it but anytime anyone complained about the lack of vacation time they were fired.
I must be missing something,that amount of days would be school days (Monday-Friday) from the beginning of September through the end of May, now minus Thanksgiving, Christmas, spring, Easter break, national holidays and inclement weather days off and up to 3 months off for summer break. What are teachers not getting paid for? I'm not being sassy, my last of 5 kids has 2 more years to go and I've 7 grands in school, so I'm a bit confused here, lol.
@@susanlbk Teachers do not get paid for the 2-3 months of summer break between school years. Usually they have to split their pay checks into smaller amounts to stretch through the summer, or pick up a summer job to pay the bills until they start again. Also, any lesson planning and curriculum development that occurs in preparation for the next school year, and professional development they go to in the summer is unpaid.
@@susanlbk we do not get paid for the time we are not working. Teachers are only hired for a certain amount of days. The rest of the year I have to work another job to pay bills.
For vacation, (at least here in California) you will have to "earn" your vacation time by working with the company for a certain amount of months, days or hours, it's not just a gift from the corporation. That and most places I've worked, vacation is not paid, it is seen as "days not worked" and therefore "days with no pay" so taking a vacation is a financial loss. This principle will also applies to being sick, workers normally get very few paid sick days and after that you are on your own financially and have a higher risk of being fired, which is why so many Americans come into work incredibly sick.
The vacation also applies to teachers during the summer months. Yes it can be considered "vacation" but unless they are teaching summer school, they will get no pay for that time because they are "not working". I have many teacher friends that will take part time jobs in the summer to make ends meet. Then a couple weeks before the school year starts they have to prepare their curriculum for the new school year, so the "summer vacation" really isn't much of a vacation at all.
If you've been a teacher after a few years your curriculum is set. Not that hard to get prepared especially for little ones. However that said covid threw a wrench in everything.
Historically, summers off were not intended as a vacation. They were a time for the children to help on the farm as the growing season ramped up.
@@darlenemiller6856 but growing season is normally spring 🤷🏻♀️
@@shawnaaustin3396 the school year has changed over the years. We didn't go back to school until well into September when I was in school, but even I am not old enough for the days when families need their children home to help.
@@darlenemiller6856 yes when I went to school in the 80’s, we started in September as well.
In New Hampshire we have no sale tax. Throws us off when we cross state lines. We 'do' have food tax on prepared foods from any kind of restaurant. However, if you buy it from a grocery store, no tax.
Yes can travel any state with a government issued ID, usually a Driver license. You can get a driver permit at 16 depending on the state. Military enlistment is 18 years old.
To me, the USA way to write calendar dates is like how you would look for something on a calendar. When you look at your calendar, do you see the year, month or the day first? My calendar is on the wall open to the page of March. Next, I look at the days to determine which day of March I need. And the year is last because we know that.
Exactly! You don't search for the day before you know which month of the day that you're looking for.
My father wrote day, month, year.
But really, isn't the first thing you need to know "which calendar?" As in... which year? Therefore: yyyy-mm-dd.
"The year is last because we know that". If that's true, then it doesn't need to be stated. If you are going to include it, shouldn't it be first?
@@timveenstra4071 I told you my justification for reading the date I was always told to. You can justify your own way. The calendar is on the wall opened up to the month. Then we look for the day and the year is last. I know why you think your way is best. But it isnt the way we learned.
@@armelind I am American. I know it's the way we learned, and we'll probably never change. It's just when I stop to think about it, I don't think there is good sense behind it.
You don’t have to stop at state borders. I enjoy watching your reaction videos, especially the ones with both of you!
Some states make you stop if you have a boat...like from Nevada to California
Remember when you can go to Canada with just your birth certificate. Pepperidge Farm remembers...
Work culture in the US also has a lot of employers who won't let you take more than 5 days of vacation time in a row. There are some who do, but it's more prevalent that you get one week (5 paid days off) from work.
Talk as much as you like, we like your accent!🤣🤣🤣
For the “Americans don’t have a desire to travel” is inaccurate, it is more so to say that they cannot afford to, don’t have the time too, or would prefer to travel within the states/Canada/Mexico.
As for the ice there’s two factors in it. On the business side if you have more ice there is less beverage in the drink. Think of the movie “Cocktail” in reducing overhead while making the customer perceive they’re are getting a lot.
The second part of it is that the majority of the states are 🥵 HOT and/or humid from (southern states) late March through late October reaching 100+F (40~C) and desert states like those west of Texas can get to 120+F 50C. Having an ice cold drink helps a lot. (That’s also the reason why homes have Air Con).
Being in a desert state I'd prefer not to have a cold drink, I like being alive.
@@paulmvalexander26pa I live in a desert too but don't agree, cant have a hot drink feels like toture in summer with 110 degree weather. Every drink HAS to be cold here or people end up dying and while I know its possible I've never heard of someone dying from a cold drink lol
@@killinspecialist1965 not necessarily a hot dri k just not ice cold, I work alot outside in the heat and coworkers I have and had made the mistake of cold drinks while working only once. It'll cause you to get sick.
@@paulmvalexander26pa what kind of sick
Mostly, it is the large land mass. In Texas, it takes many hours to travel from the Gulf Coast to the Pan Handle. ( From Houston, the farthest place I travel north in one day is to Dallas, around 245+ miles.)