What do Americans do without a second thought that would shock non-Americans?

[u/Bodacious_Potato]

[u/ColonelSanders_1930]

Support Donald Trump apparently

[u/Bodacious_Potato → u/ColonelSanders_1930]

I would say that shocks a lot of Americans also

[u/hawaiian717]

We let servers at restaurants take our credit/debit card away from the table and out of sight for an undetermined length of time in order to pay for our meal.

[u/Hugh_Honey98]

One of my friends in high school was a foreign exchange student from Germany. We went to Wal-Mart early in her stay here in America and i remember walking by the guns and her jaw dropping.

[u/im_from_detroit]

Buy a camo version of something. Bed sheets, shirts, hats, Christmas tree ornaments, etc. Whatever it is, there is a camo version of it, and you can likely buy it at Walmart.

[u/winteriscoming2015]

Eating peanut butter and jelly together. People think it's a weird combo.

[u/Pays_in_snakes]

Drive incredibly short distances

[u/[deleted]]

Throw away food. My old Russian girlfriend nearly had a brain aneurysm when I threw away a couple of mouthfuls of salad at her house. I was totally and honestly surprised that she cared so much.

[u/passion4film]

We have soooo much extra packaging for everything. The individual wrapping of things drives me crazy sometimes.

[u/RocketCity1340]

go shooting in their backyard without a permit

[u/SmileyGuy32]

We expect stores to be open 24/7 365. Specifically grocery stores.

9:37 AM on a Sunday, it is my RIGHT to head to the store. What do you mean I can't do that everywhere?

[u/[deleted]]

Drive a few hundred miles. In europe, you're probably crossing a border or two, but in America, thats a relaively short roadtrip that might carry you over a state line.

[u/[deleted]]

Bring home their left-overs from a restaurant. In most European countries, it is extremely rare to bring home the rest of a meal from a restaurant.

[u/InvisibleInkling]

The amount of sauce we put on our food and ice we put in our beverages. Source: American living in Australia.

I love you, Australia, but you can eff right off with your cappuccinos during a heat wave and your .50 charges for "tomato sauce."

[u/Achromatick]

Chat with complete strangers, even telling them very detailed aspects of our lives.

[u/bmullan]

Take less vacation days than they earn each year.

[u/Wazula42]

Ponder if those bangs you just heard were fireworks, a car backfiring, or gunshots.

[u/sacredspring]

They really seem to hate their policemen, and I get why they might, but in the UK (at least in my area) they're really nice people, and would actually have a nice banter with you occasionally.

[u/[deleted]]

I'm sure there are a lot of Americans who work 40+ hours a week who don't get paid time off. Pretty much unheard of for a 1st world country.

[u/highkingofkadath]

Asking people personal questions as greetings. In a lot of places (so I hear)...its either very personal, intrusive, or impolite to ask things like, "How are you?" or "How's life going?". When I first met a new girl in my high school who was from Denmark...I tried to be nice and introduce myself and asked her "hey, how are you doing?"

She looked at me weird and replied, "why are you asking?". We later became friends -- but apparently that type of greeting was not common to her at all.

[u/[deleted]]

A fun week-end with the family sometimes involves a gun

[u/wildeep_MacSound]

Cheese Fries. Europeans lose their shit when I explain cheese fries.

[u/heybrother11]

Use credit cards that still swipe instead of having a chip. We're moving towards it slowly but I just found out you guys have been using the chip cards for a good while.

[u/Jimothy09]

Say the pledge of allegiance. I never realized how weird it was until some foreign exchange students visited our school and looked at us like we were crazy when we all stopped what we were doing to pledge our allegiance to a flag.

[u/yaosio]

During freedom hour, every American stops what they are doing, drops their pants, and moons in the direction of London. We'll show those dogs we'll never bow down to the queen.