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When for the first time you get to the USA, you begin to be surprised sincerely to many details and habits to which locals do not pay any attention

the Bending buses

In the countries of the former USSR potato can be bought by bags or buckets from grandmas in the market. With the advent of large network sales managers there was an opportunity to buy the washed potatoes by weight. In the USA several decades people buy potato by the piece, everyone is wrapped up in polyethylene and marked by the barcode. This grade is called Idaho, such potato was given by John Kerry to the Russian colleague Lavrov at the Geneva-2 conference.

In the USA there are practically no road signs in understanding, habitual for us. Almost all road designations are written with letters so that it was clear to any idiot who mastered the Latin alphabet. Any bricks, yellow rhombuses in a white fringing or red triangles - all write with words: "concede to pedestrians", "restriction of the speed of 50 miles per hour", "crosswalk" and so on.

The ingenious invention of the American marketing specialists absolutely unknown at us. Instead of remembering a lot of numbers of tens of companies, Americans just remember their name, and commercial numbers have an appearance 1-800-ABC-DEFG. Instead of letters it is possible to choose any word - for example, number of law firm can have an appearance 1-800-JUSTICE. At the same time it is ringing on number 1-800 always free for the subscriber.

Disabled people in the USA are considered as full members of society, for them all necessary infrastructure is created: flat sidewalks, the underestimated ramps, the underestimated buttons in elevators and on traffic lights. Public transport at the same time is equipped with a pneumopendant thanks to which the bus bends to sidewalk level. As a result the disabled person easily comes around inside without any help.

Phone numbers with letters

The blogger of minskblog who was born and grew up in Minsk tells about the American features, but carried out the most part of life in traveling: "In our life it is full of things which we perceive as due. Many details surround us since the childhood, and we cannot even imagine that habitual things can look absolutely in a different way. When for the first time you get to the USA, you begin to be surprised sincerely to many details and habits to which locals do not pay any attention".

Channel conditioners

Annually in the USA over 20 million food grinders are made and on sale. The ordinary American does not represent the life without this device, at the same time the average inhabitant of the former Soviet Union does not suspect about its existence. The grinder allows to process all kitchen organic waste and to lower them in the sewerage. As a result of any smell from a kitchen bucket, to garbage there is only dry inorganic waste.

Potato in polyethylene

In the middle of the 20th century scientists found out that fluorine prevents caries, reducing washing away of mineral salts from tooth enamel. Ever since water in the USA is fluorinated for prevention of caries at the population. You notice effect in a month of use of such water, teeth become more white and are stronger, we do not have enough such practice very much.

Practically all rooms in the USA are equipped with conditioners, and it becomes at a construction stage. Unlike personal the Split systems, channel conditioners cool not stagnant air in the apartment, and take away and at the same time cool fresh air from the street. Comfortable temperature and humidity is indoors maintained, at the same time air remains fresh.

Lack of road signs

The fluorinated water

Food grinders