Here's the rest of my list of differences. Be it a European thing, a German thing, or just a Saxony thing--it's different than what I know back in the good ol' Mississippi.
24. You have to pay or tip to use most public restrooms.
25. You have to ask for your ticket to pay at a restaurant.
26. Their ketchup here is usually a lot sweeter than ours.
27. Peanut Butter isn’t used much. Even worse, PB&Js… thought of as weird. As a major fan of peanut butter, this hurts a little.
28. Warning: their water served in restaurants and in plastic bottles—do not, under any circumstances, drink it. It’s almost always carbonated. Even if you get "still water," it may "still" taste funny. Oivay.
29. Smiling at people for no reason apparently makes people think you’re “of weak mind”?
30. Dresden is not the fashion capital of the world--that’s for sure. :)
31. They don’t have any get-everything-you-need-in-one-stop stores.
32. Their mustard is full of horse radish (which I particularly like).
33. Public Transportation is absolutely amazing all over the country. Trams, metros, trains, buses, ferries...
34. Not only do you need to watch out for car traffic but also bike traffic!
35. When you are paying for a meal, they bring a change purse to the table with them and make your change right there.
36. Indecent exposure in movies—nothing to bat an eye at in Germany. Violence in movies—only if you’re old enough! Backwards, huh?
37. Their calendars start the week on Monday.
38. They have a shelf milk option that’s very common—you can keep it for as long as you want. You don’t even have to refrigerate it. That is, of course, if you don’t open it.
39. Speaking of refrigerating, they don’t refrigerate their eggs at the grocery store. They let them sit on the shelf.
40. Their chedder cheese is white?
41. Many German buildings, even those with 4 or 5 floors, have no elevators.
42. Even when the road is clear of all moving vehicles, people still don’t cross if the Ampelmann (the pedestrian crosswalk symbol) says not to.
43. The option for having an apartment without a kitchen is quite common.
And lastly,
44. ..... prostitution is legal.
Wow, I must be of weak mind.
The Ampelmann says no, so we don't go.
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Mali and Germany are more similar that I thought...
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