Complaining about Colgate? Here’s some more betchin’ from abroad
Sure, it’s all fun and games until you’re living off of peanut butter….
1. Currently trying to write a paper at the public library, sitting across from a urine and sweat scented homeless man who is frantically ripping out his nose hairs while reading a newspaper…. So you better not send me a snap chat complaining about Case!
2. Accepting the weirdest chip flavor combinations known to man
3. Waking up to both of your bank accounts overdrawn
4. Yeah, nope, don’t worry your bank did not forget to charge you for those additional overdraft fees!
5. Living solely off of beer and fries for nourishment
6. Not having a working phone outside
7. Drinking cheap just add water instant battery acid granulated coffee
8. Washing machine instructions are incomprehensible pictographs
9. Washing machines rip your clothes and turn all of your whites grey and brown
10. No Hamilton Eatery
11. Missing extra curricular clubs and teams
12. The crappier Nikolai equivalent is sold at $40.00 USD per handle
13. Pizza is not sold by the slice and NO SLICES!
14. A Chipotle burrito is equivalent to $20.00 USD (I guess the only plus is that you don’t have to drive an hour for the nearest one)
15. No friendly townies willing to tell you their entire lifestory
16. Addicted to finding free wifi
17. No Taco Bell
18. Vertigo at the top of extremely high escalators
19. Copious amounts of condiment combinations make everything taste better
20. Lugging a massive brick outlet converter with you everywhere you go
21. Walking with 3 or more Americans automatically makes you a tour group
22. No Smart Food, microwavable popcorn or Pirates Booty
23. Eating more than half of your body weight in delicious baked treats…
24. Realizing you ate more than half of your body weight in delicious baked treats…
25.Questioning why no one else here is fat, but you are…
26. Realizing you are fat because you don’t know how to read the nutrition labels
27. Regretting that time you did not pay attention in the 4th grade when your teacher reviewed the metric system
28. Door charges at bars make you feel like you’re a freshman paying Michelle in the Jug line
29. Having to sleep in an airport
30. Accepting canned foods with a warm and welcoming heart
31. Feeling like a drug dealer when you use your 1998 Nokia phone with a prepaid sim card
32. Shots at a bar or club are double the price and half the size
33. Paying $15.00 USD for a burger
34. Getting conned into buying things you don’t want or need
35. Deciding to go with the 18 hour bus ride instead of the 1 hour flight…
36. Looking at additional ATM charges and foreign transcation fees and asking Raymond from Bank of America, now why you gotta go and do that?
37. Having to justify why your mother gave birth to you at the UK border
38. Thinking you’re on Top Chef when you cook your own food
39. Realizing you’re not on Top Chef when the food looks like sh*t
40. Knowing every location that provides free cheese samples within a 20 mile radius
41. Hating all other Americans abroad
42. Confused as to why there are always hoards of students standing on the sidewalk at any time of the day and not in classrooms
43. Confused as to why hoards of business men are at pubs at any time of the day and not in office buildings
44. Unsure how to cope with finals without breaks at the Hieber Library Café
45. Eating fake Cheetos labeled “Cheesy Poofs” that actually smell like feet
46. Obtaining a sixth sense at spotting an approaching creeper
47. Lying to strangers so they leave you alone
48. A new found fear of cyclists
49. Regretting all of the things you took for granted at home and pre-planning the things you will do and eat and see when you go back home
50. Realizing all of this was still worth having the time of your life, priceless.
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