1. In Walmart, a guy who obviously hadn't washed in a week, suffered a nervous tick and quite probably was perpetually 201 yards outside of a school tried to buy 7 knifes. Seven. And that was all okay.
Yep, you'll run into that, especially in Wal-Mart! Worse, the courts seem to think it's okay too.
3. There are other flavours than barbecue, cheese, chilli, barbecue cheese, and barbecue chilli when it comes to savoury snacks. Life isn't a perpetual Texas.
Around here it's ranch too. People put it on literally everything.
4. I can see why some American atheists sound perpetually pissed. I'm actually surprised they are so restrained. Christian discourse saturates everywhere. People seemed to think I had landed from Mars.
It's in everyday conversation. I hold back like you wouldn't believe. I'm just used to it, I guess. These days I don't feel like I'm biting my tongue so much because I'm just used to it.
4. Cleanliness. The cities are pretty clean. Barring the major tourist hubs people proudly used the trash cans and recycled. I have a feeling that attitude might diminish the further out you go!
From my experience, the rural areas can be pretty bad. You'll see trash along the road a lot. There's an athletic complex during the warmer weather to which I will drive for my run; there's a nice track there and there are places where it is uphill, so you can run the hill if you want to. It's really nice. On Saturdays, though, local baseball teams play games there, and I mean, they completely trash the place. It looks like a dump on Sunday morning. I can imagine the anger and frustration of the grounds crew: food containers, napkins, water bottles, beer cans, beer bottles, chicken bones, wrappers, paper cups, and in one instance in the middle of one of the parking lots somebody had eaten half of their lunch or whatever and literally tossed it out all over the pavement with the container. Unreal. Didn't like it, I guess.
In any event, glad you survived!
