People who have visited the U.S. What is your WTF America story?

First night in Los Angeles watched as a stolen cop car and a million cop cars flew past me down Hollywood Boulevard at 60 miles per hour at 10 p.m.

Then I turned and walked back into the Thai restaurant where I watched the fugitive get PIT maneuvered and shot dead live on the news via helicopter chase cam.

Dude sitting next to us was excited to tell us we had officially, quote, experienced L.A.

Over-the-top car chases, action chase cam news, neon lights in Hollywood,

an Asian restaurant that made me feel like I was in an art film.

He was right.

I've told the story on Reddit before, but my biggest

WTF was in fall 2005. Google Earth had just come out, and my colleague at the university

lab and I were looking at it. She was a blonde bombshell from San Diego, and I'm a portly Indian boy.

When I showed her Mumbai, my home city, she was blown away. You have buildings?

Look, there's an airport. Oh my God, you have cars? How the heck do you think we got around?

I asked. Her reply still rings on to my head. Not walking, not cows, not elephants, not bicycles,

not horse-drawn carts.

She said, camels.

If I ever saw a camel in Mumbai, I'd stop everything I'm doing and say,

Holy crap, that's a freaking camel!

Was that an all-you-can-e buffet with the soft-serve ice cream machine?

As kids, we thought we were being little pigs by swirling as high as we possibly could

while our parents weren't looking or they certainly would have stopped us. The guy after us grabbed

a full-sized drink tumbler and filled it up with ice cream. No shame at all. No childlike glee

at making the mother of all Sundays. I suspect now it was something he did regularly.

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