I don’t know why, but I think some Americans don’t realise how big the UK is….
American Customer: you’re English right? Do you know the bookshop between Wales and Bristol that has lots of books in?
Me in my head: yeah mate, I know that one. Classic. Love to pop down there on a cheeky break between work. What a wanker…
the continuous 48 states are is almost 39x the size of the isle of great britan
that’s your answer
For reference:
That’s JUST Texas.
Now if a Texan could confirm that it’s normal to know a bookshop in Amarillo that you’d happily pop over to because the books smell nicer than the close one in Houston then I think a point has been made!
Personally I wouldn’t drive 4 or 5 hours to Edinburgh just for some authentic Scotch! (Plus I have no idea where the bookstores up there are)
No but people absolutely do this, I can’t confirm this hard enough. You’re being all cute and sarcastic and British but I’m dead serious, no one’s exaggerating here.
I will drive hours out of my way for a nice bookstore. I go grocery shopping, ahem, let me say that again, I grocery shop, for groceries, in a town about an hour and fifteen minutes away. Because they have my rice, friend, and the shops here do not have my rice. I regularly make weekend trips out to see my friend near NYC, and that’s easily 4-5 hours away, before we take a few more hours to pop in and out of NYC itself, for, you know, the good korean bbq. I just took a long weekend off of work to visit my father and help him do some either very late or very early spring cleaning, and that was about 28 hours of total driving split between two days.
Living in a small country, I think, just makes you very unwilling to move.
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