americans think ABSOLUTELY NOTHIN of driving 7 hours. they’ll drive 7 hours just for dinner. they’ll drive 7 hours just for chips and dip
My friend in the UK told me that they only see their father like 2-3 times a year because they live so far away. When I asked how far do they live, they said that it’s a 45 minute drive……. my commute to work, five days a week is an hour.
Okay, so I have a friend from schul who is an American married to a Brit, and when she and her husband moved to Oxford, her parents came out from the US to help them get settled in their new place.
So one day her mother goes to a shop to buy them a housewarming gift, and she starts chatting to the woman ringing her up at the till about how her daughter just moved to the UK and that she’s going to miss her so much, and the woman goes “Oh, I know exactly how you feel. When my daughter got married and moved away, I cried for days and days.” So my friend’s mother says: “Oh dear, where did she move to?” to which the woman replies: “London.”
And my friend’s mum is just like “That…that’s a 50 minute train ride from here???????”
you can tell that driving in Panama is a God damn nightmare when we are smaller than England,like 3 times smaller, and it still takes more than 12 hours to drive from one side of the country to the other
we legitimately can not drive on a straight line because we have hills everywhere
That bit about us driving 7 hours for food is not an exaggeration btw. I have an uncle who has driven to other states for barbecue. And we live in Texas, which means 2 things.
1. It takes an even greater portion of forever to get anywhere and
2. We have perfectly good barbecue right here.
A friend of mine is planning a trip to go get Grandy’s. It’s about 3 hours round trip.
The Paradox Machine 