buffalo is so eccentric

Two more differences we noticed that I forgot to mention (I need to throw these into one organized post, I think):

When you go into Subway and ask for sweet peppers on your sub, the guy/girl reaches for the yellow banana peppers. On more than one occasion this has happened, each time followed by me saying "no, no, no,—the pickled ones back here." I asked the sandwich artist each time this happened, and they told me that around here people say "sweet peppers" but mean banana peppers.

Also, everyone here runs red lights. At least the first second or two of the light. When the light turns yellow, people don't slow down—if you slowed down you'd probably cause an accident. When the light changes to red, the next car or two (or three or four) will go through. I imagine this is supposed to be happening during that second or two of down time before the next green light changes for the other lanes, but this often extends into that period. If you are waiting for your light to turn green and gunned it as soon as it did, you'd no doubt strike a car in the intersection.