At restaurants they still ask if you would like smoking or non-smoking.
Everyone drives a huge four wheel drive called an SUV.
Number plates have pretty pictures on them and you find yourself making a list of the ones you've seen (I'm up to 41).
All chocolate tastes like cooking chocolate but the icecream is great.
There are espresso stands on every other corner.
The corners without espresso stands have newspaper dispensers.
Tequila comes in more than 3 brands and is cheap.
Pubs are recognisable by the neon lights in the windows.
The Crocodile Hunter is cool.
The toilet blocks up if you use more than three squares of toilet paper and the hole in the seat is so wide you almost fall through.
You can wear shorts and thongs out to dinner and people think you dressed up.
Distance to location signs have fractions on them.
Everyone has pay TV, network exists but nobody watches it.
Going to the cinema doesn't cost a small fortune.
You think you have lots of cash then discover your wallet is full of one dollar notes.
Your body temperature is 98.6 degrees and your not dead yet.
You 'pet' animals instead of 'patting' them, drink 'soda' and 'pop' not 'soft drink' and do 'laundry' instead of 'washing'.
Your oven is really big and can do something called broiling (probably with two l's), but doesn't have a grill.
Here are some additions from visitors to this site:
The grill is outside and we call it a BBQ.
To get water out of the tap you need to faucet!
The salad is an entree but the entree is a main and they are all VERY big.
Coins don't have numbers, they have names...Penny, Nickel, Dime, Quarter.
Your mother is Mom and her sister is your "Ant".
Hotel rooms don't have fridges.
Thanks to Jeff in Washington DC for these additions.
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