Sometimes I begin to get a little bit convinced that maybe Americans aren't as stupid as what we say, and give them such a hard time about. But for some reason every single time this happens, I come across an American who makes me think "No....you really are as strange and stupid as we all think".
For example, I went to visit some of my cousins in California last summer (most of them there are pretty smart to be honest). I was waiting to board the plane at Heathrow...and some people had started queueing up to get on the plane; totally normal...if you want to get onto a plane or get into anywhere, and there are other people apart from you, you generally tend to line up and go one by one.
However this seemed to be a phenomenon that the American couple sat next to me had not witnessed before. They both stare in awe for a minute or two...and then the lady turns to her husband and says in an extremely surprised voice, "Look....what are they doing? Why are they all lining up?" to which her husband shrugged his shoulders and carried on staring open mouthed. Noticing that her husband was in too much shock to answer back, she came to the conclusion that "Oh....I guess it must be a British thing"!
YES....yes of course it's just a British thing. I suppose you yanks just stampede towards the doors all at once and hope it all goes well; oh let's just all run at it and then see who gets the best seats....'cause that's just so much more normal than queueing up like those boring Brits!
I still have no idea how those two managed to get on the palne in the end....the "British" way, or the "normal" way..... :-|
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