What everyone learns about South Korea

I copied this from a guy on Facebook, Mark Barry. - The perfect sidedish to pizza is a bag of pickles.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Food allergies are non-existent. You should be able to eat anything and give the kids whatever you want. <br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- The doctor is reviewing your x-rays in the waiting room.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- The security guard at the bank will help you pay your bills.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- On overnight school field trips, six highly intoxicated chaperones are just as effective as one sober one.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Kids better be on the bus when we leave because there are no head counts.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- On field trips, the kids are perfectly safe being let loose on their own in a public place while the teachers have a picnic.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- It makes perfect business sense to open your cell phone or jewelry store right next to 20 other stores that sell the exact same thing.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Your apartment's peephole is useless because it's always covered with a restaurant or grocery store flyer.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Everything from kimchi to school uniforms to Olleh! stores are considered a part of Korean traditional culture and you should speak carefully about them.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- The push/pull signs on doors are often blatant lies meant to embarrass you.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- The Internet is reliable.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Korean traditional instruments sound horrible. <br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Pizza and hamburgers are snacks; not meals.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- You can wrap your umbrella in plastic when entering a store...<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Koreans are in a rush to go everywhere... except when they are standing on escalators or moving walkways.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- It's impossible to flirt through eye contact because everyone is looking at their phones.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- There are more bags of recycling taking up space on public transportation than baby strollers.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Flashing red and blue lights are more effective at controlling speeding than actual police cars.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- The KTX smells like a multicultural apartment building in New York City.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Koreans have made condescension an art form.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- If foreigners can’t understand Korean, then they are obviously clueless to body language and gestures as well.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Sometimes the only thing more annoying than Koreans are other foreigners.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- You are more likely to run into another foreigner at McDonalds than at the immigration office.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Many Christians do not distinguish between Santa Claus and Jesus Christ.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- You receive health advice from 10 year olds.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Easy-open packages are definitely not easy to open<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- You are not even sure that you could imitate the hacking sound Koreans make when they spit. It's all in the pronunciation.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- The elderly have more active lives than you do.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Time zone difference + big game = drinking in the morning.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- You like 2 of the seasons. The start of Spring and Fall are more anticipated than Christmas.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Your hands are cold all winter. You can’t stop sweating all summer.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- 10 won is of less use than a penny.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Your work visa and ARC are renewed through the use of magic marker.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- It’s a tradeoff between using the toilet and staying warm.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- There is no better browser than Internet Explorer.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Mechanical pencils break after each letter but students love them.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- A cutesy pencil case is an elementary girl’s most prized possession.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- A lot of food comes with 3 layers of packaging.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Fresh air is more important than comfort.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Mosquitoes and fruit flies are more resilient than cockroaches.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Nothing says I love you better than a cheap candy breadstick.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Your medical exam is like a relay race.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Even if the cab driver has no idea where you want to go, he will spend 10 minutes pretending that he does.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Broom handles are needlessly short. Now you know why their spines are so twisted in old age. <br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- The most used feature on the phone is the mirror.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Middle school girls practice their dance routines at the subway station.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- You can conveniently buy thermal underwear on the subway. Its use will also be demonstrated for you.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Your school evaluation may include parents’ observations of your purchases at the grocery store.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- No one is trying to steal your wallet, kidnap your kids and shoot you in the head.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Matching outfits show a committed relationship.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Men in business suits puke in the street. Seems classier than home.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Your school’s English section is decorated with spelling mistakes and grammatical errors.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- You can often make purchases by swiping your card, without entering codes or signing anything. You feel very secure about your finances.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- You never know how to dress. It might be school picture day or you might be going on a staff hike up a mountain. You just never know.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- People are respectfully quiet on public transportation.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Is it really time to celebrate the Alphabet again?<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Korean women can do anything in high heels.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Koreans have more public places to squat, than places to dump their trash.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Koreans love freebies when they go shopping. Especially when they’re given out by young women in short skirts wearing headsets.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Koreans have never paid for a napkin in their life. That’s what fast food restaurants are for.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Everyone plays guitar, violin or piano.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Koreans actually read newspapers regularly.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Koreans know that the only professions that exist for them are in medicine/business/computers or law.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Seoul is less confusing than Daegu.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- The P.E. teacher is better dressed than you on school picture day.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- The P.E. teacher is the chubbiest Korean at the school.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- One of the double doors is always locked. They vary which one each day to confuse you.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- The treadmill is for practicing reading and texting while walking.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Honeymooners will only go as far as Jeju Island.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- For English teachers, foreigners use the non-existent word &#8220;deskwarming&#8221; a lot.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- You now own 50 pairs of socks and 40 towels.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- The school and the DMOE is always trying to screw us over. Always.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Many Koreans think genitals are digitalized pixels.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- The dirt in the space between the sliding doors builds up faster than you can possibly control. - You’re getting used to fruit flies buzzing around your head.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- You’ve stopped wondering why all your cardboard disappears the minute you throw it out.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- You get at least 3 CoolMessenger pop-ups for every slide on your PowerPoint.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- You’ve lost some respect for the US Army.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- You look over your shoulder for your kids every time you buy booze or cigarettes.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- You love buying food in the supermarket that is scotch-taped to something else.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Old men at the gym spend over 10 minutes blow-drying their pubes.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- The wait staff likes to cook your food and feed it to you.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- You cross your arms in an X every time you say NO or disagree about something.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- You think you’re back in university after hearing loud drunks stumbling home at 4am on a Sunday morning&#8230; but then realize its 50 year olds wearing suits.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- You start telling people they should &#8220;take a rest.&#8221;<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Every class has a &#8220;pig&#8221; in it<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Kids think your office is a great place for &#8220;hide and seek&#8221; with their friends.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- 1980s American popular culture is catching on here fast.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Koreans seem to be able to find anything from &#8220;www[dot]daum[dot]net&#8221; but you’re not even sure what kind of site it is.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- A broken bone requires 6 weeks of hospital stay.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- &#8220;Free samples&#8221; means &#8220;feed your entire extended family&#8221; (even if they’re not there).<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- You feel like you’re playing Frogger every time you walk to school or have lunch in the cafeteria.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Blue eyes can put others into a state of hypnosis.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- During class, teachers are more concerned with fixing their badminton rackets and checking the floors for rubbish than they are with teaching.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Parking a car means turning off the engine.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- You need at least 3 pairs of shoes to go to the gym and must store them in separate lockers.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- You find yourself chopping vegetables on the floor or on top of the fridge because there is no counter space.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Your fate is often determined through a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- The elderly are scarier than teenagers.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Tom and Jerry is back, complete with all the 1950s hidden stereotypes.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- You can’t be trusted to teach regular class alone but if it’s after school, they’ll expect you to teach multiple grades, levels, and gender groups alone for hours.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- People just love to watch your groceries go through the checkout.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- You look forward to discovering another new species of giant insect that flies in through the open classroom window.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Chocolate pies are currency &#8211; who’d have guessed that?<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- You understand that your chalk will break and your whiteboard marker will give out several times in one class.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- When kids actually draw penises and reproductive organs on their desks because they’re studying for their science tests.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Clerks in the stores stand at attention and ready to pounce on you with customer service.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- If you let your kids use the computer, they will surf to things they find hilarious but you cannot understand, even though it often does not require any Korean.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- You’re getting used to walking on brick after brick after brick.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- You’ve resigned yourself to the fact that the copy machine will need to be reloaded countless times to avoid paper jams.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- The gym has equipment for every possible useless exercise you can do and they’re being used regularly.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- School sports day has nothing to do with sports.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Wearing your gym clothes to class every day after running in circles is comfortable and hygienic.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Pens are only used to write on your hands to identify your girls’ posse.<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- You’ve-ah started talking like-ah this-ah - Pedestrians share the sidewalk with automobiles and motorcycles...<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Restrooms don't have toilet paper or paper towels...<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Every child you pass on the street will say 'hello' to you...<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Every city bus will have at least 2 teenage boys sitting in each other's laps and playing with each other's hair...<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- People think you should board the train first before allowing people to get off...<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- You leave the house almost every day with the hem of your pants soaking wet...<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Cell phones are meant to always be turned on...<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- People love to know your blood type... - Kids and non-smokers are invincible to second-hand smoke...<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: &#39;lucida grande&#39;, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 17px;">- Trash can fires are not just for the homeless anymore...<br style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); 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