American reacts to THINGS THAT ARE NORMAL IN GERMAN BUT NOT ANYWHERE ELSE

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[AntoinetteEmily]

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[Warentester]

As a German, who has moved to the UK, now driving an automatic, my wife noticed that I'm holding the door handle with my right hand every time I'm taking a turn. I didn't know why initially until it dawned on me that this was just muscle memory and my body was getting ready to shift down for the turn and then shift up again after accelerating coming out of the turn. The gearstick would have been to my right and now, in an automatic car, my hand had nothing to do any more.

[stefanb]

Ist wie Fahrrad fahren, das verlernst du nie! Yes we used this phrase🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️

[IceWolf]

Most of these are also common in other European countries. Like my own, Romania. And yes, we have a saying "It's like riding a bike" (original: E ca mersul pe bicicletă.) meaning something you'll never forget once you've learned it.

[m.h.]

The thing about automatic cars in Germany: If you make your drivers license in an automatic car, you are not allowed to drive manual cars AT ALL. You need to do additional driving hours and a test with a driving teacher, before your license can be changed to include it. On the other hand, you ARE allowed to drive automatic cars with your "manual" license.
Therefore many Germans opt to learn manual cars from the start to not be limited to automatics. And once you learned manual, you are kind of used to it...

[ClimberManiga]

My uncle, who is now 96, was skiing until he was 88. One day he came home to me and said "today a German skied into me and I fell, thank god nothing happened, but there are too many Germans on the slope, it is too dangerous." 😂 (He is Austrian) He went on with bicycling until he was 93. Now he has an E-Scooter.

[Nachtstrasse]

There are actually rulers to check the profile of a tire. It's called "Profiltiefenmesser".
We have "All weather tires" too, besides the winter and summer tires you can use all year around. Useful especially in regions were winter is pretty mild without much snow.

[Xnhl]

The shower heard are also height adjustable, so you can get shower without washing your hair 😅

[fipsvonfipsenstein]

It's not that we don't know of fixed shower heads in Germany, but they are usually only installed where people are afraid of vandalism. In public swimming pools, for example - or in barracks.

[HATECELL]

Fixed showerheads you can't take in your hands are still a thing in Germany, but usually only found in public places like gyms or public pools. The hose is extremely useful for cleaning the shower, but public places don't need that because the person employed for cleaning have a separate place to fix their hose to

[Flotyx_proto]

"The cops carry around a little ruler?"

Let me answer that for you - they do xD

[flashaka]

5:54 Hey, Police Officer here. Yes we have little devices to measure the tire profile. The fine for a low tire profile is 75€+ 1 penalty point (You lose your drivers license with 8 points), then you also get a fine, if you don't have winter tires on when there is snow or ice. The fine is also 60€+ 1 penalty point.

[klaus]

The thing with winter tires: Their rubber mixture is softer and have better grip without the need (or less time) to get to operational temperature. Normal tires are made from harder / stiffer rubber, so they don't wear down that fast. You are allowed to drive winter tires all year round, but will need to be replaces sooner because of tear.

[Westerschwelle]

I think 90% of people in Germany have never driven a golf cart either :D Golf is incredibly niche.

When I had to drive automatic for the first time I had a few instances where I suddenly went 100% on the breaks because I was conditioned to hit the clutch. Fun times for the people behind me, I am sure :)

[mstritri]

One thing about the bike: In Germany it doesn't care how old you are. Many people are riding the bike. Most of them say, it's much faster than riding a car, because you can shortcut many traficlight (not by just passing when it's red but by using roads, cars are not allowed to use). So I'd say mostly in citys it is even easyer to use the bike than it is to use the car, even if the way is 10-15 km long

[charis]

My first encounter with a fixed shower head was in Peru and to this day I have no idea how women are supposed to wash their 'nether regions' because - unlike men, whose nether regions are in front, ours are looking down (OMG, this is difficult to express!). So yes, as a woman I much prefer our German shower heads.

[mrcvry]

What many people forget is that additional winter tires are no more expensive than just summer or all-season tires. The wear is spread out and you need new tires less often.

[alvarTV]

I grew up in a small Village in the countryside of south Germany, and It was normal to see old people riding a bike. But there was an old lady that drove around like she was in her 50s (but in fact she was over 95 years old). She did still ride the bike with 101 years old but sadly passed away 2 years later. But that in retrospec is amazing if I think about it nowadays.

[idk_who_am_i]

Its not mandatory to have winter tires in the US ... i wonder why america has 50 car pileups in the winter and germany doesn't LUL

[echtvergoldet]

The cops actually do carry like a "ruler" to check your tire profile.

Think about it, our roads are narrow and we are allowed to drive hella fast. We somehow have to compensate for that. It's done by stricter rules on the condition of the cars that are allowed to drive the streets and stricter rules on the driving license.