American Amazement
Sometimes the people of the United States of America are able to amaze me in the 'what the f*ck' meaning of the word. While trying to stay awake at my nightshift here after only 4 hours of sleep after my previous one, I stumbled upon this post on TechEBlog about 'coin-operated shopping carts'. Apparently this is high-tech stuff, while here in the Netherlands this 'technology' has been around for many years.
Same goes for the urinal lifts we here in Enschede are already familiar with for many years, but somehow seem to impress the people across the ocean. A very simple idea, underground during daylight and pop it up during busy night hours when every man needs to take a leak. I don't know if we are supposed to feel proud about this, but it did make frown upon while reading it :)
3 comments
Daan van der Sanden Jun 18, 2007 at 00:02
I do remember when some of my friends from England were here at the Bata, they als couldn’t believe it about the urinals….. It was to watch them take pictures of them! But I should remember that, thought you were there too!
Zoe Jun 27, 2007 at 16:56
Well, I suppose there are always going to be things that one country has first and it takes forever for the others to catch on. I’ve never heard of coin-operated shopping carts or the pop-up urinals, though both look really cool. I can’t tell you what we have in the US that you don’t have in the Netherlands because I haven’t been to the Netherlands. :-) I’ve been to England and we certainly have things they don’t have — and vice versa.
I was amazed by both also. Damn us Americans.