23-06-2022, 03:26 PM
The first business trip I made to the US I had to hire a car and asked for a 'compact'. I was given the smallest available, a Chrysler NewYorker 5th Avenue. It took me half an hour to walk around it to check for scrapes and I nearly puked the first time I tried to go around a corner.
I find US a wonderful, weird, frustrating, interesting place. It's a bit like trying to summarise Europeans as a single entity and expecting to compare an Italian with a Dutchman or an Irishman and to come up with a single description. Can't be done because it is so diverse. I have friends made in all parts of the US, some of whom are horrified that gun ownership allows 18 year olds to arm themselves to the teeth and go shootin' and some of whom will happily walk the streets of Texas with a gun in their belt just in case they come across said 18 year old and he needs puttin' down.
Gotta love the place, even if I still don't really understand just how diverse it really is it after 30 years of visiting.
I find US a wonderful, weird, frustrating, interesting place. It's a bit like trying to summarise Europeans as a single entity and expecting to compare an Italian with a Dutchman or an Irishman and to come up with a single description. Can't be done because it is so diverse. I have friends made in all parts of the US, some of whom are horrified that gun ownership allows 18 year olds to arm themselves to the teeth and go shootin' and some of whom will happily walk the streets of Texas with a gun in their belt just in case they come across said 18 year old and he needs puttin' down.
Gotta love the place, even if I still don't really understand just how diverse it really is it after 30 years of visiting.
Enjoy yourself, it's later than you think!