Wednesday, May 24, 2006

More Interesting Cultural Things

At any Subway around here, if you see that they have sweet peppers, and tell them you want sweet peppers, they go right for the yellow banana peppers. You have to be all like "no, no, the green and red pickled peppers that are sweeter than others."

Also, handicap parking signs are set up a little different. If there are three spaces in a row designated for the handicapped, there will only be two signs. The signs will bookend the spaces, with a little arrow pointing to the other sign. If there are many spaces in a row (say, five or more), there will be a center handicap parking sign with a little arrow that points both ways.

Where I come from, if you're driving along and suddenly see a sign that says "right lane ends" or "right lane turn only", and you've been in the right lane, you need to change lanes. But here it means that they're suddenly adding another lane to your right, but it'll end or it'll only be for turning, so don't get excited about it and jump in.
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