I hear you guys like Dunkin Donuts

I'm bringing some back, meet me at Heathrow



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Those will be the price with immigration to get back in the UK

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Yummmmmmmmmy

Are any grits coming back with you?

Munchkins please?!? Haha


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... Which terminal?   

Actually I'm finding this trip home a little strange, maybe because I'm by myself .  I just don't know how stuff works and the little rituals that everyone else takes for granted.  Like paying for dinner have changed in wierd ways I don't understand.  It's all about paper  tickets instead of bringing the card machine.  Since I sound like I'm born there, people think I'm strange.


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Are any grits coming back with you?

I'm going to jettison everything that is not worth more than it's weight in grits and replace it with grits.  Towels, maybe underwear, deodorant to name a few.


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Like paying for dinner have changed in wierd ways I don't understand.  It's all about paper  tickets instead of bringing the card machine.  Since I sound like I'm born there, people think I'm strange.

Paper tickets    Do explain for the uninitiated!

Also, how are you finding those 18-20% tips?

Paper tickets    Do explain for the uninitiated!

Also, how are you finding those 18-20% tips?

My guess, as I worked in a restaurant, is he means giving your card to the server and having them bring you the receipts to put the tip and total on and sign.

My guess, as I worked in a restaurant, is he means giving your card to the server and having them bring you the receipts to put the tip and total on and sign.

But that's not newfangled?

Nope. But that hasn't changed in years. My parents would have mentioned it. They came to visit in September and saw how we use chip and pin where they only have a chip that gets scanned and you still sign.

Paper tickets    Do explain for the uninitiated!

Also, how are you finding those 18-20% tips?

Lyonaria got most of it in her post, but I can't remember leaving those little slips of paper on the table. 

The most confusing was that a few of us went to dinner and someone joked that I have to buy a round as new guy.  So I did, which confused everyone.  In England I am completely used to being extorted into buying ridiculously expensive rounds of drinks so it seemed natural.  Then the bartender gave me a piece of paper to carry to the table with me.  WTF

And yes, the tipping thing was a bit surprising at %20

On this trip I had a credit card with a chip and pin but everyone tried to make me swipe it first, which never worked.  Then they would tell me to insert the card. 

Worse, everyone wanted my cell phone number or zip code, even to buy gas.  This always required a long explanation of why they didn't actually want either of these.  Then the manager is called so I can explain in my thick southern accent that I have lived in the UK for 17 years.

Worse, everyone wanted my cell phone number or zip code, even to buy gas.

This drives me crazy when I'm in the US too!
And when I'm there for work and have a hire car and my work credit card and I need to refuel to return. So everything makes you prepay at the pump or inside.  So fine, the pump won't work with my credit card and requires a zip code. So you go in and prepay, but have to guess how much you're putting on. Then they only give you a receipt for say the random guess of $25 and say "the rest will come back onto your credit card" -  Then it actually doesn't match my expense report ,because I was only charged $18.73 for fuel.  And then it looks dodgy.