The little things

I am late, I am aware of that. I haven't had internet access since Thursday prevening. But now I do, yay.

More airport updates. Today I'm going to list a few of the little things that are different in in US. And I mean little things.

Showers. The American showers are stupid. In Finland you have two knobs, one for temperature and one for pressure, or at least the kind of knob you twist from side to side to change temperature and up and down to put the shower on. Not in US, no, 'cause that would be convenient. In the US, there is one knob that turns one way and if you want to get hot water you first have to suffer through a burst of cold water, because then you twist it it is first cold and then hot. This is very annoying because you can't turn the shower off without the water getting cold. Also the hot water can only come out with full blast and that's just stupid.

Not leaving the bathrooms, the toilet seats are also different. They're wider, but also flatter, which is weird. I mean, Finnish seats are much more, uh, deep? Steep? Plus, you can never know where the flushing mechanism is. Also, although this probably depends on the sink, the sinks can be really stupid. Like, my faucet is three cm from the back edge of the sink even though the sink is fairly big. Which is kinda inconvenient when you want to wash your hands.

Enough about toilets. I'm running out of time.

The bed sizes are consistent (thank god) but you can't really know their size related to the other beds. Or at all. There's a normal, and a double and a queen and a king and probably a super-mega-king, but you don't really know how big they are and how much bigger is this compared to that. Also, the bed linen are different, kinda. They're 90% of the time fitted (with a rubber band at the edge y'know) and they don't have blanket covers. They have a sheet and then put the blanket on top of the sheet. I think they used to do that in Finland as well once upon a time?

What else, hmm. You can turn right on red (with a car) unless stated you can't. Nobody uses the turn signal, it is really inconvenient to get anywhere on foot and you can park pretty much anywhere. With is really weird. They don't have like marked parking spots, you just park there if there's enough space between the cars. I mean, on parking lots they have of course, but not on the sides of the roads.

People engage in small talk much more frequently than in Finland (surprise) and this is a problem for me not only because I'm a Finn, but because I'm pretty bad at chit-chat even for a Finn. I just like to go on about my business and get things done, I don't really care about the weather. But yeah. That's just me.

When you watch TV, the commercial brakes just start. There is no indication that a commercial brake is starting, nor is there no indication that it's ending. It just does. With is somewhat inconvenient, because when it starts, I tend to start doing something else (playing with my phone etc) and mute the TV, so I have to keep looking at it to see if the show is back on. Also there is a few second period at the beginning that I have no sound and that can be really annoying. And although I have subtitles they disappear when I change the volume, so that sucks. There's also an awful lot of commercial brakes, but I can live with that.

Ahh, the boarding's starting. And I'm running out of charge. Well, I can't really think of anything more anyway, so bye for now.

Pie out.