to think there is something wrong with Americans?

[TheBloodManCometh]

In Colorado, here for 5 weeks.

Why the HELL is there a half inch gap on either side of the door in all public toilets?? You can see everything going on!!!
This has been the case everywhere I've been in America?
AIBU to be both baffled and embarrassed

lighthearted btw. I don't really think there's something wrong with the Americans

This is the sort of sweet trolley that used to get wheeled out every evening after dinner in the hotel we stayed in at Blackpool in the 70's.

Horrible really, dried out gateaux and cake, warm jelly etc but we loved it!

Yep, we mash tea.

In fact "are you mashing?" was my Grandma's not so subtle way of saying she wanted a cuppa!

GMTA?!

I googled. Evidently we would call that a rolling soft cart or rolling soft cooler (if it is a cooler) or rolling caddy.

The tartan thingy would be called a folding cart.

The tartan thingy would be called a folding cart.

But it doesnt fold! The other ones have a kick stand thing so you can put it away flat but the tartan one is as is.

Aha! Except that clearly they dont :o

In the US, streetcar, tram, and trolley are used. I think it is mostly regional. New Orleans is definitely streetcar as in A Streetcar Named Desire, which by the way is now a bus line.

Well, then it's just a cart. A lot of people would call it a plaid cart.

And that wooden thing that needs a horse, we could also call that a cart. We have lots of carts in the US.

Or the London version
"A Bendybus Named Desire" :o

Or the train version
"A replacement bus service named Desire"!

I love these. I went to university in New Orleans and we were always making jokes about the Desire Street bus along these lines.

I don't know that we have any term for soft play. When they're attached to a fast food place they're called a "Play Place". When they have inflatables they're called a "bounce house" as far as I know.

Laughing at the cart/trolley debate. Read it all in a Crocodile Dundee voice... no, this is a knife.

I love our regional word differences. I confuse all my family in Chicago when I ask them either if they want a soda or coke (regardless of actual carbonated beverage offered) rather than a pop.

And sometimes I slip into long As, too.

I used to take my nanny charge to what I think would be classified as an MN soft play - we called it an indoor play place.

Back in my day there was a lovely one called Discovery Zone - all climbing equipment with just a few arcade games aimed at older kids. The equipment was excellent, ropes and slides and tunnels, it all seemed rather death-defying as a child. Then they were bought out by Chuck E Cheese, which has already been accurately described as hell on earth. All arcade games, flashing lights and noise, children running around in a sugary drink and tasteless pizza frenzy. At least they serve alcohol.

If soft play is more like Discovery Zone, I'm .

I do love New Orleans. I've been lucky to live in some great cities.