One unexpected, but pleasant, side effect of the World Cup is hearing every day things that we take for granted here in America. People from other countries are amazed that you can walk into Home Depot and buy a door. They are amazed that you can buy things over-the-counter like ibuprofen and melatonin. Watching visitors experience America through fresh eyes is a good reminder that a lot of what feels ordinary to us is anything but.

@NotTheirScript You can buy ibuprofen and doors OTC in UK too; not melatonin.

@NotTheirScript You clearly have never visited Europe. We don’t shoot our school kids

@NotTheirScript They don’t have drive thru pharmacies over there. Whaaaat? 😳🤣

1. People posting these things are idiots because you can buy a door at home improvement stores anywhere in Europe too. 2. Buying painkillers over the counter is normal in Europe too - just only at pharmacies and not at grocery stores. 3. Most of these people posting are dumbasses looking for engagement

@NotTheirScript Because the white man built the society that supports this.

@NotTheirScript That’s a funny little culture gap — buying a whole door like it’s nothing does feel wild 😅

@NotTheirScript Yep, and the well documented American problem with addiction to OTC meds.

@NotTheirScript I’ve lived in many other countries and they all have their pluses and minuses but America is still my #1.

@NotTheirScript You don't travel much, do you? I'm not sure why they would be amazed. Both ibuprofen and melatonin arw OTC in EU. This is one of many stores where you can walk in and buy a door in the EU. bauhaus.eu

@NotTheirScript You realise you have been had. How else would you buy a door? Where can't you buy ibuprofen? Where do you find this nonsense?

@NotTheirScript America is good; it’s the world policing and blatantly compromised government that fucks everybody off.

@NotTheirScript I can do to shop and buy a door too … WTF are the people on this app on?

@NotTheirScript We love getting to see America through others' eyes. There's so much to discover in our beautiful country!

@NotTheirScript You can buy these things in scotland quite easily

@NotTheirScript What are you talking about - we have all of those things you idiot. Tell us when did you last travel to Europe or are you like most Americans and not have a passport? You need to get out more often boy.

@NotTheirScript American exceptionalism has become even more so with the internet and Google and shit. Fucking unreal how stupid and naive they are becoming.

@NotTheirScript What a bunch of crap. There are diy shops all over Europe where you can buy a door. It’s a real door, though. Not the kind you can punch a hole in when you think about transexuals in the bathroom.

@NotTheirScript That is because of SOCIALISM! So vote for the so-called Democratic Socialists at all of our collective PERIL!

@NotTheirScript Ok, cool down, pal. I live in a small Croatian town, 10K ppl, and there is a place 5 min drive from me I can go to and buy a door. And windows to match.

@NotTheirScript Where the fuck are these cunts from if they can’t buy a door at a hardware store or ibuprofen over the counter.

@NotTheirScript 69p for paracetamol and ibuprofen straight out the corner shop here, also just bought a new door from wicks and walked out with it

@NotTheirScript @liveditinTexas I'll never forget the first time I went to a pharmacy in London for aspirin for a headache. Pharmacist peppered me with questions, like an inquisition, and very reluctantly gave me paracetamol (acetaminophen).

@NotTheirScript You know other countries sell fucking doors right? Leave your zip code for a change.

@NotTheirScript I needed to replace a toilet at my house in Ireland and started checking home improvement stores thinking I'd just do it myself. Nope. Only plumbing supply shops had them, and they wouldn't sell to me. Now maybe I just didn't know where to look...

@NotTheirScript You can buy all of those things over the counter in Europe. Maybe you should travel more!

@NotTheirScript Dumbass, you can do the same in any European country.

@NotTheirScript No, all of those are in fact perfectly ordinary in Europe as well.