Amerika ist Wunderbar! ;-)

You know you haven't been in the USA long enough, when you...

• still answer, when someone asks "How're you doing?"
  
• can't get used to not knowing how much you are going to pay, "thanks" to all the taxes and fees applied at the counter, or checkout.
• passionately hate being charged for incoming calls and messages on your phone.
  
• frown at wannabe security guards everywhere.
• wonder why you received a platinum card with your bank account, when you didn't ask for one.
• mentally cheer whenever you buy something that would cost you triple the price at home. The import from China to Europe must be dreadfully expensive.
  
• try to figure out where the catch is, if you are allowed to return the goods you purchased in 30 days for money back, no questions asked.

• develop conversations such as "So you are an Italian, right? Hmm, you've never been to Italy and can't speak Italian at all? Oh, I see."
• aren't yet used to how low the taxes are.
  
• inquire how cash-backs work and what they are good for.
• don't really enjoy baseball and American football, and keep correcting people that football isn't what they think it is.
  
• have difficulties understanding why are there people around you in a graduate level class, who can't grasp the stuff you handled in high school.
• are regularly amazed by the quality of customer service.
• consider utterly ridiculous those lawyer ads that tell people to sue, because Maggie from Texas got $25000 when she did.
  
• drink soda with ice, instead of ice with soda.