Strange things you're not used to

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Oh yeah - the garbage picking up golf carts! I forgot about those - kind of a neat idea though, especially in our community that has a lot of little short streets. The garbage truck would be eternally having to back up or turn around, so these little golf carts come in, pick up the garbage and carry it back to the truck - kind of like ants hurrying and scurrying to and from the anthill.

oh, another thing that is different - but this is partly because of the location - fire ants! You definitely don't want to get bitten by one of these suckers!

I don't know if anyone else moving south has noticed but when I first moved here especially it seemed to me that at dusk the sky stays a much more intense blue and the 'light' has a totally different quality to it than twilight back in Canada. The Moon also waxes and wanes from the bottom and top more than from side to side as it does in Canada.

Edited March 10, 2008 by Kathryn41

[The Robinsons 0]

How about the those blame snakes, tornadoes and hurricanes?

Uh and I hate being interrupted by commercials every 10 seconds when watching tv. The first week or so I got so frustrated I couldn't watch more than 10 mins of TV before turning it off.

As for recycling....we live in NC and in our county they come every 2 weeks by your house to pick up glass, plastic bottles and whatever recycleble "junk" you want to get rid off.

And all those annoying plastic bags from the grocery store. We use them as garbage bags. Yesterday I actually saw that Target sells 'Green bags'. Which are canvas looking bags.

But yeah...America step up on being green!

Edited March 10, 2008 by The Robinsons

[Kathryn41 3,205]

I just remembered another one . . . sound effects in grocery stores! Thunder when the mist falls on the fresh vegetables and cows mooing in the dairy section, hehehe.

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

I can honestly say I have never been to a grocery store with sound effects

[Reba 2]

they use the thunder sound fx for when the sprinklers are going to turn on so you don't get soaked and you don't sue the grocery chain for pain and humiliation and a new blouse.

[Mononoke28 137]

The grocery store by my house not only plays the thunder sounds but it also plays "Singing in the Rain" before the spriklers go off.

Diana

[Dr. Obvious 49]

The grocery store by my house not only plays the thunder sounds but it also plays "Singing in the Rain" before the spriklers go off.

Diana

I feel cheated.

[Nessa 23]

-mailboxes on the street instead of the slot through the door - and mail carriers in cars only, not walking (may just be here, don't know)

haha yeah, way different than Brazil.

-number of pharmacies - one or two on virtually every corner it seems like

Maybe where you live. I could find a pharmay in any corner in Brazil, here I have to drive forever.

[♥Sora_9_Dam3a♥ 0]

Yeah, but in some countries (like Canada fer instance) cigarettes are not sold in drug stores. Haven't been for quite a few years.

Wow. So where do you buy them then?

I know my wife has said that taxes on cigarettes in Canada are obscenely high, so coupled with limited venues to smoke in, smoking in general has gone way down. My wife and I don't smoke, so neither of us take much notice of these things (which would probably explain why I didn't realize London Drugs didn't sell cigarettes). I just know cigarettes can be bought in places like Walgreen's and CVS because I see them there all the time.

it's just ironic that you would find something like cigarettes in a store where people go to buy something to restore their health...lol...i never realized that cigarettes were sold in pharmacies--but now that i think of it...it is pretty strange..haha...

[melusine 5]

The grocery store by my house not only plays the thunder sounds but it also plays "Singing in the Rain" before the spriklers go off.

Diana

HAHAHA !!! Excellent !!!!

never seen/heard that either !!

[Ontarkie 15,022]

i like this thraed and i'm bored so...BUMP

[Jeraly 4]

Good call - I didn't even get to read about the singing shops!!

[BabyBlueSusie 1]

The thing that I will never get used to is that "Iced tea' is actually tea, cold, and not the sweet sugary thing that we call it up here in Canada.

you must live in the south

up north, they generally serve the really sweet, fake stuff (ie: nestea, snapple, arizona), which is what i think you are referring to (it tastes nothing like real tea), but down south it is straight up brewed tea with sugar....mmm delish

[BabyBlueSusie 1]

Not really on the ice tea topic but not too off topic.. do they know what sparkiling/fizzy/bubbly water is where you are? Here.. nada.... they get me tap water every time I order it.

here, that's seltzer or club soda...weird, i know

[BabyBlueSusie 1]

I really don't understand the concept of 'sick days' as paid time off. As far as my experience goes you just get paid for time off sick, until it gets really long... like 3 months, and then it's half pay for the next 3 months. Weird that it gets treated like holidays.

yes, its an incredibley stupid system...they act as if one can choose how many days they are sick per year...at my current job, i get a pathetic 5 sick days per year...5!!!!!!!!!