Living in a college town I can attest that yes they do. It's all anyone talks about, and the traffic jams are awful. High school football here is just as bad.

Its the easiest reference for us and a football field is 100yards or 300 feet or 91.44 meters.

We say goodbye, or something like it. It's an idiosyncrasy of script writing, not Americans.

the only thing in my locker is a mound of trash.

We also wear our shoes in bed as well.

When my relatives from Ireland come to visit, they love to play with the garbage disposal. Even the people in their 60's think it is hilarious. They refer to it as "the murder sink".

I'm American and it's a select few who do that but it's not the norm.

Yes, we do. It is the only access we have to water.

When I was in school, it was hard boiled eggs. Now they have high-tech baby dolls called Baby Think About it. It is a Life Skills class that teaches you how to be an adult.

Millions of people eat this daily in the US.

In my family, we only use paper plates for gatherings.

The "funeral" is usually in a church and then a burial service graveside.

We're tough! We don't need... er... pill lubricants?

This is especially true in small towns. The largest parking lot in town is the local teen hangout

Yes, Homecoming is really big here in the US. Celebrating at high school and university.

Why? Hot water is hot water.

You don't?!?!!

Yes. We use blocks. It isn't a unit of measurement, per se. There is no standard block size. In Manhattan, there are short blocks and long blocks.

It's even more common to measure things in how many minutes it takes to drive there.

Sometimes. If a house is really close to yours, you can just say, "Oh, his house is only five blocks away, don't worry." If something is really far, and the kid is like "Are we there yet?" Then u can just be like "Only two more blocks."

Big city folks do. Not suburbanites or rural people.

Its a New York deal we adopted elsewhere. NY is an amazing grid.

Only in cities. In most suburban/rural areas it miles.

They do if they live in a city with set block lenghts.

yeah what is a 'block' i have never understood this

In England or Greece, directions are given in "streets" -- that pub is five streets over." The spaces between "streets" are "blocks."

All the time! Our city street systems are set up in grid fashion so it's a simple form of measurement and giving directions

I measure distance in blocks when I play Minecraft

It's an easy reference point. A block might be a short block or a long block but it's where a cross street is so if you pass 6 cross streets you've gone 6 blocks. Easy!

it's more of a city thing, suburbs and rural areas have more different size blocks

Pretty common

In cities, it's sort of standard.

It's a good way of visualization. Three blocks south means just that. When you say 300 feet south, I'll look at you like you are a space alien. I'm supposed to use a tape measure?

If you are walking in a city, do you really know when you have reached a km or a mile?

yes. city blocks, and just blocks. City blocks are like four regular blocks in size, because the roads are generally layed out in a grid pattern, and each square is a block. :)

We measure a street that has blocks by blocks. Not anything else. For everything else we use football fields. 🤪

For directions, yes. But for actual miles, use Waze

No. We use "as the crow flies" as our distance measurement.

Some parts of the US will say, "It's around the corner" or "Down the street" when it's really 5 miles away.

New Yorkers do. My grandmother is from New York and still refers to distances in blocks even though we live in North Carolina now and don’t really have blocks.

Yep. Inaccurate, inefficient but handy.

How far would you know how to go then?

Of course! And inTexas we dont go by miles but hours!

A block is about a football field in length.

In town it's blocks out of town it's miles.

yes, but city block sizes vary between cities, so a block in Portland, OR is not the same distance as in San Francisco. if you travel, it can get confusing.

Here in California we measure in "traffic" time as the actual distance is irrelevant here.

In the city we do. In the country, it's by the Furlong.

Only in urban areas. Where it's rural, we measure distance in time. "How far is it to the nearest grocery?" "Oh, about an hour when the weather's good."

Yes we do, which is a bad idea in Vegas where they are much longer than the most places.