The American mind cannot comprehend this

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To be fair. That's the Christmas market on the Altmarkt in Dresden and there's a huge parking garage right below it. 😄

Americans thinking that Europeans don't own cars is almost as dumb as Europeans thinking Americans never walk anywhere.

i mean... I'm basically the only American i know that has actually chosen to walk as a real way to get somewhere in the last 5 years.

the idea that most Americans literally never walk anywhere isn't inaccurate. especially for anyone living outside of a city.

About a quarter of my colleagues walk to work everyday. One doesn't even own a car. I don't live in a city.

All of my colleagues drive 45m to 1.5hr to work in standard sized trucks.

Well, I was in a student exchange to Boise, Idaho about 20 years ago and did a daily walk around the neighborhood for some fresh air. Three days in, I was stopped by a frantic police officer with his fucking gun drawn because someone had reported me as some kind of child molester who was scouting for victims, because someone just walking was a completely alien concept there.

I was taken to the fucking police station because the policeman thought I was making shit up either. My host family had to wiggle around with my German passport and threaten to get the Embassy involved until they decided I wasn't worth the hassle and dropped the whole thing... So I learned two things from that exchange:

  1. 'Muricans do not know what "walking" is
  2. US police is next level power tripping