A Tampa family loads the car for a weekend in Fort Lauderdale, dog leash and water bowl tossed in the back, without a single glance at a county website. That’s the normal way to pack. It’s also how a pet owner ends up on the wrong side of a rule that was never a rule…
Buying a bag of birdseed to feed the backyard birds sounds like a friendly gesture to many new Virginia residents. Their neighbors and forty-four Virginia counties disagree. State wildlife code treats it as illegal deer feed the moment deer start eating it. These are the things new Virginia residents often get wrong about how their…
Hundreds of people once lined up for nearly seven hours outside a Brooklyn Wegmans just to be first through the door. That’s how much New Yorkers love Wegmans. It’s also how the grocery chain can turn into blocked aisles and short tempers. These are the rude Wegmans habits that annoy New Yorkers. 1. Camping Out…
Pennsylvanians love being right. But Punxsutawney Phil makes that hard to prove. The famous groundhog has correctly called the weather just 39% of the time since 1887. That’s worse than a coin flip. So, is it rude to correct someone who’s wrong? In our opinion, these are the situations when Pennsylvanians are better off keeping…
Drive across the Roebling Suspension Bridge from Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky appears on the other side. The bridge opened in 1867 as the longest suspension bridge on Earth, a test run for the same engineer’s Brooklyn Bridge. Nothing about the crossing seems extraordinary. But the tax on your receipt, the price at the pump,…
Maine is the most rural state in the country, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, with a bigger share of its residents living outside any city or town than anywhere else in America. That kind of space rewrites a few rules newcomers assume hold everywhere. Some of what catches new residents off guard costs money….
Somewhere outside Massachusetts, an office keeps humming along on the third Monday of April like it’s any other Monday. Back home, that same Monday means a marathon runs past Fenway Park and school lets out early. These are the things people from Massachusetts miss the most once they’ve left the state. 1. Space Savers After…
Cook Out ran more than seventy stores before it ever left North Carolina. By the time it went up in another state, North Carolina regulars had already spent twenty years perfecting how to order. These are the Cook Out habits that separate North Carolina regulars from everyone else. 1. Skip the À La Carte Menu…
Ask a Piggly Wiggly regular why they shop the way they do, and many won’t have an answer. It’s just how it’s done. These are the Pig habits that instantly separate South Carolina regulars from newcomers. 1. Ordering a Custom Cut A trained butcher still works the meat counter at many South Carolina Piggly Wiggly…
A taco cost 59 cents at a California Taco Bell drive-thru at the end of 1990, and a couple of dollars covered lunch. Try that at a drive-thru today. Taco Bell, Carl’s Jr., Del Taco, In-N-Out and Wienerschnitzel all trace their very first location back to California, decades before any of them looked the way…
