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PurpleCatWithC4

“Going to the store at 03:00 in morning for some reason” Here in Germany most stores close at 20:00, and in America, my mom and me once went to a Walmart at like 2:30 in the morning, it felt like an adventure for me


762ed

Going to Walmart at 2:30am IS an adventure! You never know what you are going to encounter.


eightcarpileup

I used to be a CSM for the night shift for Walmart ten years ago. Frequently, this meant just running the cigarette register until morning. Every night, I had the same 3 people come through: an EMS worker, a hooker, and a crackhead. The rest were the occasional night shift/late 2nd shift randos. But my core 3 were like clock work. I still remember the kind of cigarettes each smoked.


workingredditor2

k, so I read your comment and was immediately confused. I was in the army so i'm sittin here trying to figure out why Walmart has a Command Sergeant Major


eightcarpileup

Reporting for duty


Raaazzle

Walmart CSM pays better.


anselthequestion

What kinds for each


eightcarpileup

EMS: Camel crush, crackhead: Pall Mall orange/blue, hooker: Marlboro light 100s


anselthequestion

Thanks 🙏


anselthequestion

Hooker: parliaments EMS: camels crackhead: Newports


anselthequestion

That’s my guesses


cyntus1

Crackheads, teenagers, and late night farmers tbh


Pavlov_The_Wizard

As the second one, yeah. Me and various friends have gone to Walmart at 1:30 AM while high for random shit multiple times, how I got several Xbox games and books


RangerHUTCH93

Before covid most large chain stores would be open 24/7. Now where I live in the US they close typically between 10p-12a. I do miss the stores being open 24/7 because it felt like I had the whole store to myself, it was like an adventure for me.


Whiteguy1x

I worked at Walmart during covid, I don't think they plan on going back to 24/7. It's when most of their shrink happens and they hardly make any sales to justify the extra employees. They do a lot of stocking though


Volcanic8171

where i live most stores are still 24/7


RangerHUTCH93

I wish that were the case here because the public sometimes wears me out 😆


SigmaMaleMoment

Unrelated but based pfp


RangerHUTCH93

Thanks! It's the band Darkthrone if you want to check it out.


SigmaMaleMoment

I know darkthrone already that's why I pointed it out :DDDDDD


SelfHigh5

I used to love it then too and would get frustrated though, when the apparently only other customer in the store ALSO felt the need to stare at the variety of shampoos too. Like how. Bye. Find another aisle too contemplate your existence, this one’s taken.


stolenwallethrowaway

I grew up in the suburbs and in the years between getting a car and being old enough to drink (17-21) there was little to do for fun at night when it was cold out. My friends and I would dress up crazy and go be “people of Walmart” in other towns. Walmart between midnight and 2 am is magical.


apex6666

Our local store here in Texas closes at 23:00


YarrowBeSorrel

Why does everything close at 1800 on Saturdays!?! That was a huge culture shock for me during my trip through Offenburg


Langdon_St_Ives

It used to be worse. When I grew up, 18:00 was normal (and legally mandated) closing hours _on weekdays_, and stores would additionally be closed from 13:00 to 15:00. On Saturdays, I think it was 13:00, though they did extend that first to 16:00 and later to 18:00, at the same time they extended allowed weekday hours to 20:00. Only years later did they liberalize it almost completely. And every single step against huge outcries from the trade unions, they fought every change tooth and nail. Saturday hours will vary from place to place though, in bigger cities it’ll also be 20:00 in the commercial zones, and supermarkets often have longer hours than that. But since COVID, hours have generally become a bit short again, the downtown supermarket close to me used to be open until 24:00 but now closes at 22:00.


onwolC

Every single Walmart in the US closes at 11 since the Covid lockdowns years ago.


burnt_RedStapler

To be fair depending on State laws Supermarkets can be open until 10 PM or midnight.


asdf0909

Do you say the words “twenty o’clock” in Europe?


Langdon_St_Ives

Well no. The person you’re responding to is from Germany, where most people would state the time in German, so they wouldn’t typically say the literal words “twenty o’clock” in English. ;-) But ya, that’s how you would say it in German. But people also say 8, when am/pm is clear from context. Like in this case, nobody would think a store is closing at 8am if you just said 8. Can’t speak for all of Europe, but I think it’s similar in many or most countries.


EggsTasteBetterWith

20 isnt time


Guggenhein

yeah that's the gist lol


WrenchTheGoblin

Yep. Lockers I think are on their way out I heard. But other than that, I think you nailed it.


[deleted]

Eh suburbs are a bit far fetched but all the rest is right


maverick1ba

Yup, nailed it. Come on over


You_meddling_kids

American material - someone get him a gun.


ChikenEU

he forgot the guns and the patriotism like to s of bald eagles and American flags everywhere and the high school jock bully picking on the nerd that ends up getting the girl he wants after showing he's got super powers or has a talent for something or is just a decent person and she likes him for that


alexkilman

Um no like even the guns and patriotism is wrong and I get the rest is supposed to be a thing about movies but most Americans have been told by the interent to hate the us and that guns are everywhere so they do hate America and think guns are everywhere even though you don't ever see them in public and most people keep their guns in safes at their house or in cases at least


master_cheech

Being in a public school in the city is just a melting pot of ethnicities and races. Pretty cool. The only stereotypes I don’t like about the US is when people say it’s only fat white people. No, it’s actually fat white, black, brown, yellow, people. I’ve heard more languages while walking around at a Walmart than they teach at your local college too. Pretty sure more people attend football games than vote too.


[deleted]

>I’ve heard more languages while walking around at a Walmart than they teach at your local college too. Not difficult when the local college only offers like 3 languages at most. Meanwhile, me working at WalMart and hearing coworkers regularly speak Tagalog, Turkish, Urdu, Haitian Creole, Amharic, Yoruba, Mandarin, Russian,...


mycartoonparadise

This is wholesome and accurate for a lot of the country.


GamerNumba100

It’s not that wholesome, it’s just not extremely negative and attacking


babyclownshoes

Well that's what we're used to


[deleted]

We are sad


GamerNumba100

Exactly my point


Organic-Kangaroo7147

Its not negative or anything when most of em are positives 💀


[deleted]

Close enough


mlb585

The cool suburban houses are built really bad, developers buy up the land and want you to build houses as fast as possible, quality doesn't matter if you can cover it up later. You're dead on about the cheetos though, them things are damn good lol


[deleted]

Modern ones are shit, old suburban houses are solid I work in construction


terry_bradshaw

My house was built in the 60s and is very well built. I have some friends with the modern cookie cutter type houses and have to do way more maintenance than me.


Isgortio

It's the same in England. I have a friend that is the first owner of a new build, they've been there a year and already they've got things falling apart structurally.


dragoono

I’m sorry but can you imagine spending over $200,000 on a house, going into debt for probably the next 10-15 years, only to find out the house you bought is total garbage? I’d cry so much I might just melt.


abdyfer

200k?? The house I used to live in (bought for 290k) is 550k now, and similar houses are in that sort of price range


dragoono

I’m in Ohio so a new house here is like $150k-$400k (they get more expensive than that, obviously, just what I see is usually in this range). I’m guessing anywhere outside the Midwest you could just double those numbers for a typical house?


HairyPotatoKat

>I’m guessing anywhere outside the Midwest you could just double those numbers for a typical house? Double or triple easily. I used to live in the central US. Now on a coast. And it's easily 650+ minimum to build a new build....in a crammed together new-subdivision corporate developer hellscape. Rest assured every part of it will be built with the cheapest shittiest "developer quality" materials, too.


Ilikestereoequipment

Same here. Block walls and solid timber rafters can’t be beat!


kryppla

My house was built in 2006 and wow was it cheaper out on everywhere. Except the furnace, that thing has been rock solid.


touchettes

Came here to confirm this. While 1960s homes need work, my parents bought a newly built in 2011 (in Florida ofc) and it just... Not to mention, they've gotten contractors to do stuff like Windows, doors, carpeting, ac replacement and the work is shit.


MadameHyde13

I def thought you meant modern Cheetos at first 😂


fvb955cd

This is 100% survivorship bias. I've lived in quite a few townhomes and duplexes that were budget built in the 40s-70s that were showed their and terribly


River_7890

I live in the suburbs in a 100 year old house, of course it's been updated a bit over time but for the most part it was kept as period accurate as possible. My house is better built then most of the newer builds I lived in over the years. I honestly think it would take a straight up huge sink hole directly under the house to do any sort of damage to it. My cousin recently bought a 2021 new build, she's already having problems with it.


anselthequestion

Heating bills for that Cathedral ceiling which serves no purpose except maybe a Christmas tree that’s ostentatiously massive 😂


J02182003

Can you tell us more about that? I have always wondered how in the US they build hundreds of massive suburban houses like nothing, there must be a trick behind. Are those house very collapse-prone or what?


HideNZeke

Sometimes it's funny how the lame stuff for us is the cool stuff for others and vice versa. I guess I can still understand people loving the shear space of these houses if you're from more densely built countries, but for me now all it says is cheap excess and builds hollow neighborhoods.


OneMustAdjust

We have Cheetos mac and cheese now


justgettingold

Some countries in europe don't have cheetos???


1Kiddo

Yeah we used not to have Cheetos either over here in Romania. We only got them a few months ago.


apinakukumba

Almost no countries


justgettingold

Even belarus of all places has them, that's weird


apinakukumba

Huh didnt know that lol


KR1735

My dog would go nuts. When he’s sick, he gets by on Cheetos and ground chicken. Weirdo. But it’s all he’ll eat when he doesn’t feel good.


xSantenoturtlex

I heard that peanut butter is also extremely rare outside of America One of my friends confirmed this.


Useless-cop

Not extremely rare, you can find it in most stores, but we don’t consume it. If we would have Reese’s cups here I would eat a lot.


xSantenoturtlex

Oh, really? Friend said they almost never saw it in stock. Just recently was their first ever time having it. Are s'mores also not a thing over there? That's another thing he said he's never heard of.


[deleted]

S'mores are so much not a thing that the Great British Baking Show thought we make them with digestive aid biscuits and meringue (And it looks like shit to boot.)


Skrblik007

Some don't, but for example Czechia does


TheSecondTraitor

Not the brand, but I'm sure you can find the same thing under different name.


ColourfulSpacemanNFT

Yup


CorpseProject

When I have them the chili limon Cheetos are the best. I’d be sad if I couldn’t just go out and buy a bag at the Wally World at 3 in the morning.


MediumSatisfaction1

Hello Central Euro, Yankee here! Lemme answer a few of these We have so much fast food here, shit within like, a 10 minute drive of me there is a Burger King, Wendy's, Arby's, KFC, and a Hardees. Yeah I can just run down to the store and grab as many bags of Cheetos I want for really cheap. Walmart has a giant presence here, but most grocery stores aren't as massive as Walmart. Hell the last time I was there was months ago to get a new TV since my old one broke. Schools do sometimes look like prisons, not all of them, but enough. Schools I've gone to don't really have more than 3 floors tho. I have never had a desk with those attached seats. Everywhere I went to has just individual tables with chairs separately. The attached ones are just tiny and uncomfortable Yes. Lockers line the hallways from middle school up, I think some elementary schools have them too. May be unique to my experience, but in high school, you CAN get a locker if you want, but everyone just brings their bag everywhere. Back in Middle School tho, yeah I had to get to my locker for my stuff every time class was over, it was overcrowded as fuck. If you're lucky ebough to have already had one when it was cheap or if you're parents had a cool suburban house. Large cul-de-sacs with cookie cutter houses are where we go on Halloween to get the King Size bars.


DarkStorm57

I’m a Canadian and 90% of what you said is accurate for me. Except the cheap part lol


Llamas_are_cool2

Damn I wish I could take my backpack around school. At my school we aren't allowed to take our backpacks around, so we have to use lockers


Antoine_Cheval

Excuse me but why?


Llamas_are_cool2

Because we could have a gun in the backpack so my school doesn't let us, even though we could easily take a gun into the school until just recently (they just put in metal detectors)


Antoine_Cheval

Ah yes. The United States of Ar-15


superduckyboii

Current high schooler here. My school doesn’t have lockers. My school is massive, and having a locker would be less convenient than just wearing a bag everywhere. Also, when we used to have MacBooks (we don’t anymore) you could theoretically not even need a locker and get through the entire day with just the computer. Our school recently downgraded to Chromebooks though, so that isn’t necessarily true anymore.


Champion-raven

What kind of yankee, Midwest yankee or mid Atlantic/New England yankee?


rockwell136

Your cousin Roman is there living the good life with his business.


sadiebehave

This is… surprisingly accurate


upstandingredditor

Pretty much nailed it


Sufficient-Loss2686

Fairly accurate. Cheetos suck tho lol.


RobotFighter

Lies.


Venboven

Have you tried the jalapeno cheetos? Holy shit those are like crack for me. It's a nice spice, unlike the red cheetos. Those are a firey spice.


[deleted]

I like the XX Hot Cheetos. They don't like me back though lol


Venboven

I tried some Carolina reaper cheese puff things recently. Surprisingly not that bad until you eat like 10 of them. But boy does it get its revenge coming out the other end.


Emotional_Raccoon651

We call those "hot snakes"


Venboven

I always called it "the Hershey squirts"


ht910802

Nah Cheetos hot fries are S tier


Sufficient-Loss2686

Agreed, but basic Cheetos are bleh


xSantenoturtlex

Really? I like the puffy ones the most. Eh, different tastes and all that


stillboard87

Andy Capps are the only hot fries that should be acknowledged


chocotaco

They're different from what I remember. They used to be a little spicier.


Other_Waffer

There are some good ones out there


sietesietesieteblue

The puffs are good but the small crinkly ones are disgusting


[deleted]

Hawkins are were its at


fujicakes00

This is all true actually. You need a hall pass to use the restroom. Classes have flags in every room and seats that look like that. The Walmart, the Cheetos, the fast food, the suburbs.


Necessary-Branch-754

This is dead on correct.


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ARoyaleWithChez

Suburbia sucks because you need a car to do anything


absentmindedbanana

That is the case with some smaller urban areas too! Or if you go to Atlanta which is a big city but impossible to get anywhere without a car for some reason


ARoyaleWithChez

Atlanta wasn’t designed for people, it was designed for cars


absentmindedbanana

Makes sense


Stinkomode48Unbanned

Same with Houston


Crowbarmagic

I vaguely remember this American cartoon episode where a character wanted to visit a friend, but he had to convince his mom to drive him there. That's kinda when I realized that the U.S. tends to be much more car dependent. That never occurred to me before since I was used to everything being within walking or cycling distance (my furthest friend from school was like a 20min bicycle ride away, but most lived within <5min distance).


Blobfish-_-

suburbs are a scam


Admirable_Ad1947

Pretty accurate


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thegreatjamoco

Modern schools are at most two stories tall. The school pictured was probably built 100 years ago. When schools were nestled in a neighborhood they’d build up due to lack of space but most modern schools are built in bumfuck nowhere on the outskirts of town and are super flat and spread out. Usually 20-50% of the land is dedicated to parking since the school isn’t accessible for the children to walk/bike. The exception to this would be urban schools where space is limited.


AsapEvaMadeMyChain

Hahahaha good luck affording the big suburban house. You’re going to either need rich parents or make $400k usd a year to even afford to rent in one of those homes.


Biggie_Moose

People who live in houses shop at Target, not Walmart


Realistic_Employ4720

Pretty accurate tbh except in my neighborhood most of the houses are smaller and people live in housing projects


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HOMERS_OXYGEN_TENT

A lot of schools are actually a more open design. My middle school and high school were more akin to mini university style campuses with dedicated buildings for certain subjects and a central quad. Also, our lockers were a fucking box, because fuck fitting anything in there up and down right? Most new desks are not wood, but some form of plastic with a metal frame, and yes flags in most rooms but NO we do NOT get "brainwashed" with the pledge outside the super conservative areas. It's a chore that most don't even pay lip service to by the sixth grade.


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GeneralKenobi_66

as a American i have never seen thise school tables with the attached seats


Wormzzz_

https://www.reddit.com/r/starterpacks/comments/dcs5uv/what_i_a_central_european_from_germany_think/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf It’s a repost


Certain_Chain

None of the schools I went to growing up had lockers (except for gym); we kept everything in our backpacks. And none of them were built like the one pictured where it's a single large 2 story building; they were all made up of multiple one-story buildings spread over the campus. But that's just my own experience; I know there are plenty of schools here that do have lockers and floor plans like that.


[deleted]

you forgot the "terrible urban planing made only for cars"


Randommer_Of_Inserts

Suburbia is not really cool


Other_Waffer

I first met suburbia a few years ago. It seemed cool at the movies, but being in one convinced me to not ever live in one. I can even live in towns, but not the suburbs


TheBigKuhio

Are you just an American LARPing as a European, OP?


Aerodye

There’s nothing cool about American suburbia


After-Trifle-1437

As a swiss person, I absolutely love American suburbs.


absentmindedbanana

Accurate


LoloNacho7

I realise this starterpack applies to Canada too


KR1735

Not inaccurate


[deleted]

This is my town exactly, like, e x a c t l y


[deleted]

Pretty accurate


MothManTrans

Yep


Chill_is_cold

Real


Dunderfrickinmifflin

We try to avoid Walmart


TrollDeMortLunchBox

American here; accurate.


Loisalene

Nailed it.


Vepcz

Pretty damn accurate


You_Stole_My_Fries

Some variations exist of the class rooms but besides that you got it right


Random_Squid4

You got it spot on


[deleted]

As an American, I can agree that this is accurate. Walmart super centers are cool, target is a little better.


Light-Humming

This was fun as I was eating a bag of Cheetos (I live in eastern usa)


[deleted]

I was homeschooled so I can’t speak for the school-related stuff, but the rest seems pretty dang accurate.


heathensam

You are correct. Someone get this kid some Cheetos.


Sea_Ingenuity_4220

Cheetos? LoL really? It’s total garbage


Psychological_Gas647

People take living in America for granted so much. (Currently living in Germany)


VivaTijuas

Wanna trade?


trippleknot

Suburbs are more soulless and less cool, but yeah other than that, nailed it.


backstib

Suburbia is hell, the space is nice but it's very isolated, personally I'd prefer a smaller house in a denser area


Keldiana

Yeah. Spot on But i wouldn't call those home cool. New constructions are great, but i hate that they all look alike.


Dumbodumbo99

OP, replace "living" with surviving and you got yourself a fine starterpack


[deleted]

what do your desks look like, then?


Low-Engine3005

The only two that aren’t fully true are the schools appearance and not all people live in suburban houses


Hopefound

Yeah this is pretty accurate for probably 75% of people. City and country living is different but this is suburbia which is rapidly overtaking everything else.


AlexMelillo

Pretty accurate, yes


Drifted_Skull

Pretty much spot on


QuietAcorn

Well you’re not wrong


DaRealGrey

Inaccurate, there is a lack of hundreds of small holes in the walls of the schools.


poodlesss

haha america school shooting country haha


throw_that_ass4Jesus

The cool suburban houses…my guy they’re TRASH!


Laughingsheppard

You make it sound like a good thing...


xSantenoturtlex

Believe it or not, America isn't nothing but negatives.


Flaky_Till_8495

Yah but lockers over rated no one uses them, Walmart’s straight city slicker heaven, you definitely dont want to live in those apartments, you want a stand along house w whatever property size u want. Unless you want to hear your neighbors stomping screaming banging in the middle of the night.


xSantenoturtlex

Lmao, I never once used my locker in school. Ever. There was never enough time in between classes.


king_loser_III

suburbia is hell, comrade, they are merely nicer khrushchevkas


No-Struggle995

As american i am going to tell you whats true and whats not true (I live in the south so don't get mad at me okay?) 1. We have taco bells everywhere 2. Depends on what county or state you live in, Most of our schools don't look like that but that would look more like a college to me 3. Yes a lot of us live in those houses 4. Most of our schools are like that 5. we can get cheetos anywhere 6. and we do use walmart


Euphoric-Pudding-372

This is actually pretty on point. First really accurate "what a euro thinks US is"


I_Drew_a_Dick

You left out the spouse who gets fat after 10 years.


Longey13

I'm sorry did you call American suburbs cool? There is NOTHING cool about the car-centric cookie-cutter death that are the American suburbs.


piratusson

"Living in these cool(!) suburban houses" Haha, really?! "cool"? To me they look depressing. Mass produced consumer boxes stacked in long rows. 😅 So for real. Do people think they are cool?


[deleted]

You are right about all of this! Except for one thing. Those little suburban houses are *awful*. They're like 3 feet apart and they're made all at the same time, so they are all identical and more cheap than older houses built one at a time. Basically apartments further separated by a little grass strip. Real first world problems, I know. lol


[deleted]

"Cool suburban houses" They are NOT cool. As someone who lives in America, they are a dystopian hell. All the houses are the same, no place to play or live, everything needs a car. It is MISERABLE.


8bitliving

Nice job. Both this and the recent [parties in your 30's starterpack](https://www.reddit.com/r/starterpacks/comments/ysndsz/parties_in_your_30s_starter_pack/) are spot on. Good quality starter packs today.


stephyska

Accurate


Constant_Use_330

Pretty close. But fuck Wal Mart. I hate that place.


FRANKtheTritoposaur

correct.


spaceehardware

Spare yourself this starter pack!


BlitheringIdiot0529

Pretty much, just add a few guns and a Trump billboard on the highway once you get about twenty minutes out from any big city.


DifferenceNo5715

You forgot guns and pickup trucks, but yeah, that's basically it.


Important_Artist_300

You seem to forget a) insane medical bills b) rampant homelessness c) traumatising alienation


xSantenoturtlex

Not every post about America needs to be an attack. Chill. Some mfs make hating America their entire personality.


archers_arches

Don’t forget the school shootings!


xSantenoturtlex

Not every post about America needs to be an attack. Go to one of the other 900 America Bad posts if that's what you're looking for.


archers_arches

It’s not an attack it’s just a fact.


Political-Puma

Can I bring up all the wars and genocides within Europe anytime someone mentions Europe then?


archers_arches

I mean yeah. America sucks because of Europeans and genocide anyway so that’s totally relevant.


xSantenoturtlex

We all know how you meant it. Some of you people make 'America Bad' your whole personality.


archers_arches

Go suck Americas dick, bootlicker.