Thanks for the ride!

Coming to America from Sweden is a big difference in many ways. Today, I'll cover something quite unusual here in the states. It's called walking.

A warm and sunny day last week, me and Rebecka decided to go for a 30 minute walk to Walmart.

In Sweden we're used to walk instead of taking the car everywhere, so for us 30 minutes of walking is not a big deal. But here, people almost get offended hearing that we're going to walk "that far".

So for us, just start walking wasn't really an option. First after four or five discussions about why we actually wanted to walk, instead of getting a ride, we took our first steps towards Walmart.

The funny thing is that we after only 10 minutes was stopped by a car. The guy sitting in it was one of our class mates. And guess what he did?

Right, he offered us a ride. "Oh, you're not gonna WALK to Walmart! Can I give you a ride?".

We thought it was nice of him of course, but we tried to explain in a nice way that we just wanted to walk and breathe some fresh air. He was a little bit confused but still okay with it, so we continued our walk to Walmart.

When we finally reached our target, we got a strange feeling of guilt. We almost had bad conscience not getting there by car. Kinda funny, isn't it?

So when we were done shopping, the cashier asked us about the weather. When we told her it was chilly and windy outside, especially when walking, don't you think the guy in the line next to us heard - and of course offered us a drive home?

At that time, we did'nt have the power to say no.