Today at lunch I saw something that starkly demonstrates one big difference between the US and the rest of the world. The salad dressing bottle was almost empty, and it was very hard to drain the dregs from it.
My solution would have been to turn the bottle upside down and wait, so that more of the dressing would become usable. Santiago took a more direct approach, he used table knife and simply cut the plastic bottle and half and spooned out the remainder.
I commented that I probably would’ve been slapped had I done that at my parent’s table, to which he retorted, that he would have been slapped by his grandmother had he not done it and wasted the rest of the salad dressing.
Isn’t it wonderful to live in a society that hasn’t caught the throw away bug? Throwaway bottles, throwaway cannons, and of course inevitably, throwaway people.
I am so glad I live here!
Sounds like it was a throwaway salad dressing bottle to me.
Left by futurexpat on September 17th, 2007