Your funniest stories of Culture Shock?

[TheJoker]

What has been the funniest Culture Shock story you've heard, seen or been involved in when you migrated to North America?

When we just moved here and the mailman came and my Dad talked with him for a bit. When the mailman left he said he "See you later".

My dad stayed outside for about 45 min thinking he'll come back.

 

[newtone]

When I first came here I went to Walmart and asked for a torch and the person looked at me confused and said "I am sorry but we dont carry any olympic torch" I later figured out its a flash light

There is difference between lemon and lime

There is also a difference between biscuits and cookies. Cookies to me were something you only deleted from temporary internet files and folders on your computer

University is synonymous with school

Bathroom is known as washroom

Don't carry kerosene if you want to start a bon fire for camping, buy fire starters.

A smore is not an exotic animal, its a traditional night time campfire treat

 

[draxz1289]

My big one was ordering coffee at Tim Hortons LOL. I am used to ordering by just saying 1 coffee back home

So I went to Tims and ordered a coffee and they lady was like how do you take your coffee and I was like just coffee and she was so how do you take it and I was like umm.. HOT and she giggled and said how much sugar or cream


took me a full 5 min to get my coffee LOL

 

[lyxus]

Mine was pretty hilarious!

I am from France, and i learnt the hard way that
a hickey in quebec is a lollipop in france
a lollipop in quebec is a hickey in france

You can just imagine when i arrive at this bakery in Quebec and asked for a hickey thinking it was a lollipop