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[@janmedley5932]

People at the store can actually lose their job if they don’t ask for ID.

[@Demolishionist]

Bartenders and servers can actually go to jail if they don't ID and serve a minor. So, everyone gets ID'd.

[@daverave3698]

When I was 65 I got ID'd. They said that they ID everyone, so there is no chance that someone illegal will slip by. No excuses. Like others have said, you can go to jail and lose your liquor license if they serve someone illegally.

[@cloudsn]

@@daverave3698 Exactly, then there's no judgement call, no "oh, they looked old enough." Everyone gets IDed, no exceptions.

[@bunnyslippers191]

Their reasoning is "if you card everyone then you won't forget to card someone who may look older than they are. Just spread the misery and card everyone!"

[@betsywhitt]

An increasing number of places in the US require a valid ID to be scanned into the computer in order to continue checking out. So if you're buying beer at the grocery store and your alcohol gets scanned, the computer locks up and everything stops until you can hand over your ID and either get your birthdate entered by the cashier or the bar code scanned to automatically enter it. Then everything picks back up again. This also happens with certain medications and some specialized glues or chemicals that they don't think kids should be buying freely. I think there's an element of the alcohol regulation that's connected to how many people rely on driving cars everywhere here... because there's robust public transportation in Europe, underage drinking doesn't often end up with someone dying, and by the time someone is likely to have a car they're also likely to have gotten wiser about alcohol consumption there. In contrast, it's super easy here in the States to drink and drive, so it's become necessary to regulate more closely for everyone's safety. But that's just my theory....

[@JIMBEARRI]

Lewis, here's a reality check for Europeans : 8 of the Top Ten and 14 of the Top Twenty largest athletic stadiums in the WORLD are football stadiums on US College and University campuses. The UK's Wembley Stadium comes in at number 17.

[@sharnadixon-scott710]

UK football or America football

[@neutrino78x]

@@sharnadixon-scott710 athletic stadiums in general, and in this context football means USA football. We call UK football "soccer" (the British originally called it soccer as well. We couldn't switch to calling it football because by that time, we already had a sport called football.)

[@sharnadixon-scott710]

@@neutrino78x yes I know I was just wondering which you were talking about it is hard to.remeebr how big stadiums at unis are over there do they regularly.sell out

[@justinpetersen5273]

@@sharnadixon-scott710American football. We say soccer

[@neutrino78x]

@@sharnadixon-scott710 ".remeebr how big stadiums at unis are over there do they regularly.sell out" Bear in mind, I'm not actually into sports 🙂But yes, they definitely do. Culturally, I'm a 49ers fan, since that's the San Francisco team of USA Football....but I don't pay attention to it lol. The only college one I really care about is the Army-Navy game, because I was in the Navy. That's when the US Military Academy at West Point plays a (USA) football game against the US Naval Academy, to determine which branch is better. I was Navy, so of course I think Navy is best. 🙂Academies are for officers, though, and I was enlisted. But all the officers I served with who went to the Naval Academy were pretty cool, so I definitely root for the Naval Academy. 🙂 (the service academies are free, you just have to be smart enough to get in, and of course, you have to want to be an officer in the military; when you graduate, you're a military officer. 🙂) Locally, here in the San Francisco Bay Area, the big rivalry in college sports is Stanford and UC Berkeley. They are both among the top ten greatest universities in the world, by academic reputation! Currently Stanford is number 2 in the world behind Oxford! and UC Berkeley is number 9 in the world. You best believe those stadiums fill up 🙂

[@terrioestreich4007]

Stores usually keep it pretty cold because the doors open and close all day long

[@GxNi4234]

that and the more people you have in a small location, the lower you need the ac. like school rooms for example. 30 bodies in a small square space with closed doors haha, but i remember even at college, schools were cold and my kid says her class rooms are cold.

[@donnabert]

@@GxNi4234 Also people who sweat a lot (I don't sweat for some reason) then their skin is wet and the cold bothers them, I thing it is just sweaty people that mind.

[@noonooshK]

And most people are overweight in the country. So ofc they don’t feel cold easily.

[@virginiarobbins7539]

Yup that's exactly why.. the ac couldn't keep up otherwise and it would cause it to be to be serviced from trying to keep up. Also chocolate can't be cold then hot then cold it turns it whitish and looks unappealing so stores even need to keep that in mind.

[@danajohnson4757]

@@noonooshK .....I'm overweight and get cold easily. You know what they say about assuming. LOL!

[@johncarpenter3751]

2:23 it’s my experience as a service worker that we keep it cold inside where we work because we are working and get hot. We keep it cooler than normal because we are constantly moving and working with hot food

[@NursegangstaRN]

I’d imagine too that the body heat from people moving around and going in and out would be a reason too

[@titanicgirl3526]

Because here in FL it’s 100 everyday but in February! We would die if the AC wasn’t on! Lol

[@johncarpenter3751]

@@titanicgirl3526 March is my favorite month here in Tampa! That’s the best time of year here every year

[@KaelumYodi]

Alcohol depends upon the venue. If the venue has a liquor license, then you can walk throughout the venue with alcohol, or certain types of alcohol. When the venue doesn’t have a liquor license, you are restricted to “liquor/beer gardens”, which are the closed off areas where the liquor/beer is sold. Most state have 2 types of licenses, 1) Liquor, where all types of liquor can be sold, or 2) Beer/wine, where only beer and wine can be sold.

[@evilproducer01]

Not just the venue, but also state, county, and municipal codes can all determine what is allowed.

[@scottkirkhomes1260]

Lewis, not sure about everywhere else, but in NJ you have to define where the drinking area is for licensing & insurance purposes. (the entire public space, indoors, outdoors, dining room, bar, patio, deck, etc) People are only supposed to drink within those designated areas.

[@thefallofKAE89]

Drink responsibly and you'll live. Haha

[@hannahyoung3533]

My parents moved the house I grew up in about 12 blocks down the street. The house was going to be torn down, so my parents purchased it for practically nothing but had to pay to move it off the site. They got permission from the city to close down the street so the house could be moved on a huge trailor bed then put on it's new foundation.

[@user-hy6ej7pi6m]

The reason, you're not allowed to walk around with beer is because they're afraid you'll give it to your underage friends

[@karenchaney8993]

However that's not the case at every other sporting event

[@amandataylor1166]

I blame the whole “not being able to walk around with your beer” thing on the *Karens & Kevins* of America because my teenage daughters can be with me in the “beer tent/area” & so can their friends (my oldest daughter is 19)… I don’t think it has to do with underage drinking because that wouldn’t be allowed if that was the case, they don’t watch everyone to make sure other people aren’t drinking someone else’s beer, at least not the places I’ve been… it has to be the *Karens & Kevins* getting a little alcohol in them & starting all their crazy sh*t with people... 🍻😆🍻

[@Khaleesi_Of_Kittens]

Nightmares!!!!!

[@jackiesaylor2487]

I'm 61 and do doordash, and I was picking up alcohol for a customer and they asked me for my ID and I pointed to my gray hair, and she said I need to scan your ID in order to ring it up. So there's also that technology too.

[@MikeNobody]

Family gatherings of 50-200 people would be more like a family reunion. I've been to a few of those.

[@TheRagratus]

The last HUGE family "get-together", one where ALMOST everyone showed up, was right before my Mom passed. Just counting her kids (my siblings), our kids, her grandkids, and great-grandkids, there were 35, and 6 were missing.

[@IslaSkye123]

With great grandparents, grandparents, parents, inlaws, siblings, cousins, aunts, uncles, neices, nephews and friends who feel like family gatherings can be huge! There's always the possibility of guests tagging along too.

[@gwennahedden8485]

A lot of states have instituted laws requiring all people to show your ID for any alcohol or tobacco products.

[@mamyers6741]

A good movie night would be Taking Chance, with Kevin Bacon.

[@donnabert]

At stores in my state they are REQUIRED TO SCAN AN ID to buy cigs or alcohol and that is why it doesn't matter if it is your own mother, you must have an ID to buy.

[@deanmccormick8070]

​@@donnabertSometimes that's a law, other times it's store policy, to protect their licenses from any possibility of being accused of selling to underage patrons. I have a white beard and am "carded" some places.

[@frankbartus9743]

The thing to keep in mind is that USA is a FEDERATED SYSTEM collecting laws of 50+ entities (Don't forget self-governing US Territories) that set most laws locally. When one entity over-reacts, often there is push back, and things eventually swing back the other way. Back in the 70s there was a VERY SUCCESSFUL (EVENTUALLY) strong national push LED BY MOTHERS after some gruesome highway deaths to make drinking laws stricter. MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) succeeded over a ten plus year period in getting a lot of states to adopt strict, and often fairly draconian measures to prevent teen drinking [AND DEATHS! Nach] Similarly, the group GASP made smoking all but impossible in most work situations, creating for some of us, a hostile work environment. Of course, those assholes thought my fumes made their workplace a hostile work environment. And so America Rolls.

[@Morgaine]

Liquor laws vary greatly from state to state and even from county to county in some states. We have dry counties where no alcohol is allowed. Some states can't ring up a liquor or cigarette sale without an ID to scan.

[@stischer47]

Most college football players know they aren't going to the NFL, so they make plans for their future outside of football. Being a player opens all sorts of doors in businesses.

[@DavidFisher-x4x]

Our stores and businesses and home aren't "too cold", because though it may be 100 F outside, most of our AC units are set at 74-76 F inside but when you go from 100 to 75 degrees it can be a shock. But from what I hear you say, 75-78 F is pretty hot to you guys so yes, you'd think it "cold" inside our houses because the temperature difference from outside to inside here is huge!

[@brandoncinpubadj]

While that is a good point, some places, such as restaurants, do intentionally keep it colder in an effort to keep people from staying too long (to make money/more customers served daily).

[@user-jj4ix5ru8n]

I'm from the USA and every time I see a house on a trailer I'm always amazed and I see it quite a bit lol

[@mbourque]

My grandparents had 5 kids, which each had at least 3 kids each and most of the grandkids had at least 3 kids, and now the great grandkids have started having kids (I have 3 grandkids so far from my 5 kids). When we have holiday get togethers, there are at least 60+ people (usually closer to 100+)...this is because in addition to direct family members, there are spouses and friends and stepchildren....

[@dionysiacosmos]

Mothers in the US have been training their children to bring a sweater to wear inside stores, even on hot days, forever. I always kept a light jacket or sweaters for my family in the car.

[@tinaboyd7574]

59 years old. Got carded 3 weeks ago. Weird American Mac n Cheese from a proper restaurant is the bomb. Just had my friend from London visit me here in Portland OR. Took him to the Gorge, Timberline Lodge, Bend, OR, Smith Rock, Painted Hills, Astoria, Oregon Coast.

[@lkajiess]

A lot of corporate chains are forcing employees to literally card EVERYONE these days.

[@donnabert]

At stores in my state they are REQUIRED TO SCAN AN ID to buy cigs or alcohol and that is why it doesn't matter if it is your own mother, you must have an ID to buy.

[@donnabert]

@@lkajiess they have to scan it, I see it all the time. I don't smoke or drink but I shop. Is no one paying attention to those in front of them?

[@tinaboyd7574]

@@donnabert Stores. Yes. Not a restaurant

[@Boy3ga]

When I was in college I did a few part time jobs in restaurants. The general rule of thumb we were taught was anyone who looks your parents age or younger you should card. But it’s also somewhat of a common practice to ask for ID for anyone because (at least the state I worked in) the board that would approve liquor licenses would send people of various ages to make sure the license holder is IDing properly.

[@donnast.joseph5158]

A lot of people routinely take along a lite jacket, outer long sleeved shirt, or sweater - just in case the AC is too cold! Especially if you're going to eat in a restaurant. Hard to telax and eat if you're shivering cold!! 👍

[@marthapackard8649]

Me at the movie theater...sweater in the summer, short sleeves in the winter

[@KennyP62]

There are a few states I have traveled where they don't care if you look 100 and are 100. Everyone, and I mean everyone gets ID'd for cigarettes, vapes, and alcohol. I am way in my 60's and felt honored when they would say ID please.

[@Onepinkflamingo]

SC for sure But, we are allowed to have fireworks, guns & cannons😅

[@davideasiebert1941]

I could not stop laughing as I found my ID at 75.

[@rebeccarittenhouse2203]

Right so annoying.

[@Tylermaddox1911]

Yeah it's only chain stores really. At least in Georgia so circle k, Walmart, Parker's, places like that. If it's locally owned ie not strictly followed rules, it won't happen unless you look really young.

[@user-sk2xq3dz6s]

Here in michigan, stores can now be fined if they don't scan in the id of anyone buying booze or cigarettes.

[@karladoesstuff]

We do Fourth of July on the lake like that in my town. Come to Hot Springs, Arkansas! We have three lakes, horse racing and a casino, and a national park with no entrance fee. There's an amusement/water park, science museum, miles of hiking trails, concerts and festivals, a magic theater, a big lakeside botanical garden that does a killer Christmas light display, and a place where you can feed alligators. Our history includes colorful figures like Al Capone and Babe Ruth.

[@DianeCasanova]

When Coors was first manufactured, it could only be sold west of the Mississippi River. It took a lot of years before the distribution area spread out.

[@ivynyx1834]

Smokey and the Bandit

[@joecalabria3472]

The local NFL stadium cards EVERYONE when buying beer. I'm well into my 60s and still have to show ID every time. Supposedly, this takes the pressure off of the vendors to have to make judgement calls or withstand pressure from the customer.

[@johnwood551]

We not only move houses , we move HUGE buildings. Look it up online, you’ll be amazed. I went to North Carolina and watched them move the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse .

[@lynnrobinson4435]

Coors is made in Colorado. My dad, before WWII played baseball with Adolph Coors Jr., son of the owner of Coors. Adolph Jr. later was kidnapped and murdered…back in the 1930’s

[@trickhayproductions]

In the USA when you get ID for Alcohol it is not just about the age. There are 3 things they are checking for. First are you 21 or older. Second thing is your ID valid and not expired. Third thing is your ID has to be on you, on your body. So even if you are old enough and have your ID one you, if it is expired you can NOT be served alcohol. It is illegal if ANY of those 3 things are missing. When I worked as a cashier in a Shell station, the Sheriff had teens about 15-16 yrs old come in under cover and try to buy alcohol. If you sold it to them it was a $25000 fine for the store, a $25000 fine for the cashier. You had to ID to be safe.

[@frankbartus9743]

I wish he/she/they'd ID'd that state, $2,500.00 for the cashier seems extreme--though the $25,000.00 for the store (and probably loss of license for 3-24 months as well) is believable.

[@dawn_68]

Yeah my sister got got with an underage kid coming in buying alcohol. (She doesn’t drink) and he got a twisted tea and she didn’t know it was an alcoholic drink. But her fine was only $500

[@ericbonds2302]

When you're outside in hot weather your body adapts to it, to a point. Then when you walk into a place with even moderate air conditioning it just feels colder until you get used to that.

[@donnabert]

And sweat is wet so cold feels colder.

[@AdamNisbett]

That’s all true, but I’ve also experienced a number of places in the south where I’m still shivering a bit even after being indoors for hours unless I put on an extra layer. It’s almost like southerners set the indoor temp for quick cooldown after coming indoors rather than for long term ideal comfort.

[@PatNR813]

As a woman, I just bring a sweater to the stores…

[@gioiapharo7433]

always

[@DeborahDavis-zi6pm]

Yep, keep a sweater in the car for this purpose.

[@karlsmith2570]

I'm a guy, and I do this, too

[@janfitzgerald3615]

Me too, I call it the air conditioning sweater and keep it in my car.

[@karlsmith2570]

@janfitzgerald3615 hospitals are far worse about this kinda thing

[@donnast.joseph5158]

We do not consider a single story house to be a "starter" home, per se. Not at all. In fact, many single story homes are huge!

[@lydiaedwards8100]

And some two story homes aren't very spacious at all.

[@donnast.joseph5158]

@@lydiaedwards8100 Exactly. Lots of townhomes, as we usually call them, are quite small. I've watched a lot of reno and decorating shows of English homes and they are usually townhomes and the rooms are usually very small. We, on the other hand, have lots of sprawling single story homes and huge multi story homes. I think Lewis would be stunned to see many types of "typical" American homes.

[@camilochavez6982]

I am still living in my first starter house since 2000. In my backyard, I have enough room to build a full-size house.

[@jodyjody1612]

5:00 not walking around with your beer.?? Must have been the State they were in. Ive been to many rodeos and street events, as long as its in a plastic cup go where ever you want.

[@digne6502]

It depends if children are in the same area.

[@robynbeach3198]

16:31 I have 7 kids, my parents have 4, my grandparents had 8, my step dad's parents had 10. That was normal back in the day, and not terribly uncommon now.

[@PatriciaBarresi]

You are so ready to visit the US……I love your enthusiasm for our “culture”..

[@donnabert]

"Culture?" You mean culture.

[@misscakes9995]

My town wanted to save a historic 2 story manor from demolition and make it a museum. They raised $200,000, removed all the street lights, jacked it up and pulled it all the way through downtown. The videos are on Facebook dated November 16, 2019 under the page North Idaho Life or the Coeur d’Alene Downtown Association. It was impressive

[@snowphish33]

I love this one! That's exactly how I spent my 4th of July! Lake, boat, beer, fireworks, and of course, a lot of FLAGS!

[@donnabert]

Lake and boat sounds okay. Fireworks kill wildlife and is lame. Flags are around all year and lose their meaning. Beer is gross.

[@snowphish33]

@@donnabert okay, Debbie Downer. We had a great day. Foreworks were done by professionals and no wildlife was sacrificed. Go outside, touch some grass. Find something that makes you happy!

[@MICHAELSMITH-ys8ek]

@@snowphish33 Sounds like a great time, especially the fireworks.

[@falkroadclowder1639]

@@snowphish33 Why don't you see her channel which is all her outside with wildlife? Just because someone has an opinion different than yours does not make them "unhappy." Saying that seems passive-aggressive.

[@f45125]

A patriotic speech or prayer along with The Star Spangled Banner begins every major event. Football, and sports included. 🇺🇸

[@donnabert]

It's why I don't go. Not the SSB but the fn' prayer. How utterly thoughtless and rude. How about I recite James Joyce, which has more meaning than a group-think-prayer. God does not give a SHIT about american sports, I'd bet my left tit on that fact. If I were there I'd loudly boo through the whole fn thing.

[@MICHAELSMITH-ys8ek]

I've been to hundreds of sporting events, nothing but the National Anthem.

[@DrZiggy87]

Played sports through college. Been to hundreds of games. They only play the anthem. Only weirdos pray to multi-faith crowds and players, a Christian prayer. Fuckin' weirdos!!

[@Yeetin_Peas]

​​@@MICHAELSMITH-ys8ek same. I've never been to an event that starts with a prayer.

[@brettbuck7362]

@@Yeetin_Peas Every NASCAR race, for example, has an "invocation".

[@steelersx6]

lewis just picture that lake house they were at is probably uncle bills second home lol

[@angelabennett-engele1977]

I was going to say the same! That probably isn't his uncle's regular house! Haha!

[@whelpthereitis2577]

To be fair there are many places in the states where lake front property can be comfortably purchased as a single family home. Here in MN for example. In fact, as I sit here typing I am looking across the lake at the sunset.

[@jovetj]

Lake house = $$$$$$

[@pacmanc8103]

Uncle Bill lives in Lake Oswego, an exclusive Portland suburb. Those are primary residences, not second homes, on the lake, and are very expensive.

[@xupb01dmw]

Isn't MN known as the state of 10,000 lakes?​@whelpthereitis2577 u guys have far more lakes than most. MN is such a beautiful state.

[@barryfletcher7136]

In nearly all of the USA it is against the law to be on a public street or sidewalk while consuming an alcoholic beverage. New Orleans is one of the exceptions.

[@Ennoenno02]

Unless you have it in a brown bag 😂😅

[@ShannonLynn21]

Kansas city as well

[@samiamperry2616]

A lot of cities are creating ‘alcohol social districts’ to allow in ppl walk around w/cups of beer/wine in certain areas, seeing this in places trying to revive downtown or shopping centers w/lots of restaurants w/outdoor seating and spaces.

[@frankbartus9743]

The TEMPERANCE political movement and its child, PROHIBITION still scars American behavior!

[@Boy3ga]

@@samiamperry2616where are these cities cause I’ve never heard of this? Might need to add them to my list of places to look at when I move 😂

[@Jml416]

I'm 56 and only been carded (ID'ed) ONCE in my entire life when I was 16 and still bought the case of beer! A lot of what they are talking about is regional, because for one, I've never been to a rodeo where you couldn't walk around with a beer. Hell, they have vendors walking through the stands selling beer while you sit in your seats.

[@asdlom]

meanwhile, I went to a bar on new years eve with my folks and got carded for a brownie sundae and a *water.* Like y'all already carded me at the door, what're you doing?

[@Jml416]

@@asdlom that's crazy!

[@SwarmerGaming]

Yeah I've never even heard of that. Every place near Dallas let's you. You just can't take opened alcohol off site

[@deaniej2766]

I got carded exactly once, I was the only one at the table who was 21, everyone else was younger. I'm 73 currently.

[@randyhanson9441]

I can see it now... put you on a boat, hand you a beer and after 15 minutes of relaxing, it's everybody overboard for some catfish noodling.

[@lunatuna79]

No, not noodlin’! LOL

[@neiljaye2966]

The only problem with these types of videos is that there's really no 'typical' America. Sure, you'll get ID'd virtually everywhere and such, but for the most part, each state, especially each region, has different norms and laws. For example, I live in Ohio, and my city, Columbus, allows you to carry beers on the streets in most busy areas. It is also legal for women to walk topless. There’s actually an annual Nude Bike Ride event this weekend, which might be unheard of in most parts of the country. Something that might not be popular here could be off-the-charts popular in other areas, and vice versa. The point is, don't think that some of the things you see in these videos happen in all parts of the country-they can be as shocking to us as well.

[@lauren0814]

Oh. Haha....witnessed a nude bike ride in California.....lotsa body paint and hysterical 😂

[@sharonmulloy2181]

Naked bike riding a thing for 20 years in Portland, OR. Sadly this year's canceled because of the overwhelming participation

[@turbodog182]

Lewis quote of the year : "Yo, I love me some cowboys!". Im gonna send you a bumber sticket Lew. It says "Cowboys butts drive me nuts" 🤣J/K. Also, adding my 2 cents, when I married my wife and moved to Indiana, I became part of a "large" family. Last Thanksgiving, we have 95 family members (grandparents, parents, cousins, siblings, nieces, nephews, etc.) gathered in the barn. These old fashioned "Farm" families are huge because they needed lots of kids to help out with the farms, which leads to crap tons of grand-kids, etc.

[@cobramom3]

In my immediate family, there are 17 of us

[@felyciti]

My sister & her husband are foster parents. Between the two of us, we have a good 30 people

[@jeaniegerdes4706]

They were probably at an event that had children around, that's why she wasn't allowed to walk around with her beer! Usually at those kind of event's there is a beer garden with some sort of table & chairs set up inside a fenced in area. You're not allowed to leave that area with your beer for fear of children getting a hold of & drinking someone's beer! Yes, there are big trunking companies that move houses. They lift them off their foundation & put them on huge steel beems, then load them on to a tractor trailor. They even place it carefully on to it's new foundation.

[@donnabert]

It wasn't public, it was a private event. Meaning not run by the government, so it was more likely a rule that company put in place. I think that this guy should run, his girlfriend is a snot.

[@deaniej2766]

It depends entirely on the type of liquor license in place. And whose liquor license it is. If a restaurant or bar is just renting a booth at the venue, where you can drink is usually limited. If the arena has the liquor license, you can usually carry your drinks around and even drink in the viewing seats.

[@TinaMay-rr6xi]

I've been to that rodeo many times. It's in a very small town with low police presence that's why I'm pretty sure they don't let them walk around with beer. To keep the event less rowdy. There is another rodeo a few towns away that allows anyone with a wristband to walk around through the whole event with beer or liquor. But there's also cops walking around that event everywhere making sure everyone's being chill.

[@Spring-hs2ud]

My 81 year old sister-in-law ordered a bottle of wine to be delivered at her home. The delivery person asked for her ID but wouldn’t accept her ID and would not let her have the wine because she had let her drivers license expire because she no longer drives.

[@samiamperry2616]

It’s crazy but they got to refuse delivery to keep job and can’t get through the screens on apps w/o scanning ID and can’t accept expired. She can get a regular state ID and that way she can get all the wine deliveries she wants! 😁😊

[@denniss5505]

Ridiculous

[@racingboss166]

This is how we found out my wife's license was expired

[@kimceder9934]

😂​@@racingboss166

[@frankbartus9743]

Delivery services like that will usually take a pic to prove that their delivery person did their job. Loss of License scares operations greatly.

[@elizabethallan3997]

The humidity makes it feel sticky and hot outside but the A/C takes that out of the air and it feels very cold at first. Always take a sweater when going to a restaurant where you will be sitting still.

[@FRichardRobinson]

Coors beer is made in Denver Colorado. Partially because of the High quality of the Spring Water used in the Prep.

[@hippiemama52]

It tastes exactly like the water. Weak.

[@Prime_Time21]

It’s actually Golden,CO

[@Smariea]

West Virginia girl here! We have plenty of lakes, amazing hiking, and breathtaking views! Mother Nature at its finest, and some of the kindest people you will ever meet! Oh and waterfalls too 🤣 Going out on a jet ski on the lake is an amazing experience

[@leonardwhitmore4717]

Houses in Germany are built so close together that you can’t drive a car without pulling over every five minutes to let an ox cart go by and Germany is great because America helps rebuild after the war that they started ,so no shade lady

[@CJWJR]

Regarding vehicle damage, some states require you to have your car inspected annually, but it's mainly for things like emissions, taillights, headlamps, turn signal lights, etc. However, each state has its own list of things that it looks for. Some states like South Carolina no longer require annual vehicle inspections. (South Carolina stopped requiring vehicle inspections in 1996.)

[@joanmest4752]

Iowa doesn't have us inspect our vehicles annually. Police can and will pull you over. If you have a headlight or tail light out, you will more than likely get pulled over and receive a warning to get it fixed. If you get pulled over and it's not fixed, you'll probably get a ticket.

[@jlaurelc]

Yeah, it varies a lot by state. You can get pulled over for anything that would fail inspection in one state, then the next state you can basically drive anything that still moves and stops when it's supposed to.

[@donnabert]

@@joanmest4752 Yeah, red states don't give a shit about the environment, we know this, no need to "brag" about the fact. It's disgusting. Thanks me and other blue states for taking up your slack. I was born in Iowa, moved to San Fran at 10, and thank the fuckiggn lord we did.

[@suzieroberts8436]

Missouri does inspections after your car is so old - go across state line to KS and they don’t.

[@timcaldwell5241]

Really great video!!! I enjoyed all the 4th of July festivities and his family having so much fun!!!

[@jordanparker5949]

It's not extremely cold, it just feels that way to people not used to it.

[@TruthHurts2u]

It's not that it's extremely cold. It's the temperature difference that makes it feel so cold. When it's 104 outside and most AC's are set to 72- 78 degrees, that's a 30 degree difference in an instant.

[@garycamara9955]

Its called air conditioning. It gets hot here occasionally. Europe is never hot. At least by least by our standards. Lewis; the minimum for a house is a 2 car garage, otherwise it's useless. Some acreage is good too. We have 6 acres of empty land behind us. We are on our own acre. All houses here

[@garycamara9955]

We also have front yards

[@JIMBEARRI]

@@TruthHurts2u Precisely. Most Europeans have no experience of the difference between indoor and outdoor temperatures because theirs are rarely more than a few degrees different.

[@TechNextLetsGo]

Small places like Starbucks will set the A/C to 68 to ensure you don't stay too long and open a seat for another customer. I've heard this from employees.

[@kathywalker6731]

Growing up there were 40 people for holiday dinner. Back then, we lived in Brooklyn, NY and lived within a mile of each other. Sadly, many of those family members are no longer with us. We're all also scattered across the country, from Connecticut to Washington and and Georgia and Florida. While it's less than 10 family members at my table for Christmas, we always have friends that come for holiday meals. We don't have a huge house, 1900 square feet. It's always wonderful to see those we love gathered together!

[@BurntFrenchToast106]

Moving houses is pretty common. There’s a house not too far from where I live, moved but it was moved across the street cuz it was another city. They moved cuz tax was cheaper across the street lol

[@emmef7970]

Love this comment. Never even gave thought to a house move just across the street. The initial cost was probably pricey but they were thinking about long term taxes, especially if there was no mortgage on the house. Wise move. lol.

[@linmonPIE]

I can see how that particular case would be worth it but I wouldn’t say it’s pretty common to move a house. I’ve lived in the US all my life in different regions and have never seen a house being moved.

[@Tylermaddox1911]

​@@linmonPIE pretty common in Georgia much more common pre 80s my family had a house moved I'm only 23. Now a day you just buy a mobile home and brick in the bottom and it's considered a house.

[@BurntFrenchToast106]

@@linmonPIE let me rephrase that: it’s more common than what most foreigners think lol. For me who lived in missouri for 26 years, I’ve only witnessed two houses around where I lived moved and three or so houses rolling down the highway. From trailer park houses to two story houses. The ones on the highway I saw were in rural parts tho.

[@ajwinberg]

I have never noticed the air conditioner being too cold in any shops I go into in the summer. Our Walmart where I live, always feel either comfortable or too warm to me. It really just depends on the day.

[@garyi.1360]

It's cold because new clients coming in want to feel that cool air right away and cool down fast. Unfortunately the longer someone stays inside they will get cold possibly. So it's a choice the business makes whether to set it for long staying customers or newly arriving customers. Usually what decides it will be how long does the average customer stay. If most come and go rather quickly then they will go with colder for the majority who it won't bother but will reward immediately upon entering. Also if there is a patio and or doors to the outside are opening often then they have to guard against the loss of cold air and so will have the AC cranking.

[@karladoesstuff]

Coors beer comes from Golden, Colorado. For a while it was only available in certain states, and transporting alcohol across state lines without a permit is illegal, which is why Coors beer is the reason for the plot of the classic '70s movie "Smokey and the Bandit".

[@Roadtrip635]

When I was a kid, Coors wasn't available in Texas so when an uncle brought back a couple cases it was a big deal........lol

[@edmandziuk3858]

@@Roadtrip635 was that Uncle Bandit?

[@Roadtrip635]

@@edmandziuk3858 LOL..... I don't think anybody was gonna confuse his Plymouth station wagon for a Trans Am

[@clm1115523]

It's not that the store is cold, the temperature is kept about the same all year. But the difference in the temperature is immediately noticed. It is like having a high fever and getting into a tub of 24 degree water, it would feel like you are freezing.

[@scottarmstrong2641]

Alcohol laws very state to state

[@CJWJR]

*vary

[@scottarmstrong2641]

@@CJWJR ty lol

[@MJCwithKeriLynn]

My grandpa was a cowboy. He rode broncs and bulls. He also drove cars in the demolition derby.

[@SuzA8110]

What's really funny about the football stadium stuff. That guy plays for the SECOND ranking team in Oregon (Oregon State - Beavers). You should see what the FIRST ranking team (University of Oregon - Ducks) have at their stadium.

[@dionysiacosmos]

I'm in my 60s and when my grandmother passed she had 7 children, 38 grandchildren and 38 great-grandchildren. We usually held reunions, including spouses, of course, at a local park that had pavilions that could be reserved . Some attendees usually brought RVs or travel trailers to park nearby for more facilities. They were usually held in a area were many lived, so mostly visitors slept on pallets, in RVs and trailers and the more adventurous kids slept in sceened in porches or backyard tents. There's a great song by John Denver called Grandma's Feather Bed. It would hold 8 kids and 4 hound dogs plus a piggy we stole from the shed. We didn't get much sleep, but we had a lot of fun, on Grandma's feather bed!

[@georgemetz7277]

Already, #1. I've never experienced that. The a/c in a store should be comfortable, if it's too cold maybe it's just them or the manager likes it cold but it certainly isn't universal. 11:20 Depends on the state. Here in Texas you have to pass an annual emissions test and a safety check to continue your registration.

[@toodlescae]

Not after January from what I understand. I believe they're getting rid of the emission testing at least.

[@Jml416]

@toodlescae just the opposite. They doing away with the safety check portion. Still have to do emissions if the county is already required.

[@notabot3375]

At large stores like Walmart, the store has no control over the temperature of the AC, it is done through the home office. If there is an issue, you send an email to corporate monitoring, and a tech is sent out to see if there is a problem, but it can't be controlled at store level.

[@zacharyricords8964]

Haha my great grandma turned 100 in June. We had about 50 people show up. Thats just 1 side of my family.

[@stevenjohann5435]

Hmm, for a good midwestern US experience....how about a two-day overnight canoe trip on a small, clean missouri river......fishing, jumping off cliffs, rope swings, bbq over a campfire, tons of wildlife and trees everywhere, all in two days....lol

[@michellehathorus3324]

YES! Lew needs to experience this, not just big cities. This sounds like heaven to me!

[@99Stutz]

The super cold AC is, in my experience, usually just blowing at the entrance door of a store - you'll have this strong fan blowing at the door. The interior is air conditioned, yes, but it's not like the whole store is a refrigerator. I think it actually feels great on a very hot day to get that cool blast of air for a moment as you walk in.

[@trashman1979]

The stores are cold because once the shop fills with people, the air conditioner has to work harder to keep it cool. The more people, the more comfortable it is, the fewer the people, the colder it is. I ran a party bus company for a few years and we realized that once people got on the bus, the inside temp would rise by 90 degrees.

[@marydohrenwend7612]

And... because of the Culinary Institute, the food is incredible in the Hudson Valley, as lots of the chefs stay in the area after they graduate.

[@sdandrea8171]

It’s 40c here today (US, of course) and my husband keeps it so cold, that you can hang meat! I have to get under a Korean blanket drink coffee or run outside to warm up.

[@meganbezio4320]

Big families? 😂 my grandmother was the 4th youngest of 32 children! Yes it was an irish catholic farm family. And, yes there a few twins and a set of triplets in there. No, not all made it to adulthood. But all were named and given catholic burial. I have 5 aunts and uncles, and I am 3rd youngest of 14 grandchildren. The second largest family recorded in Vermont USA

[@frankbartus9743]

This is the first time I felt my Grandparents underproduced! My grands on had 11 on the one side, and 13 on the other! Our annual family reunions averaged 80 attendees for quite a while whilst that generation of progeny lived, then fell off gradually with Today's remote relatives reaching down to the 5th generation attending rarely, so a reunion these days cycles up and down around from 10-30 in roughly a three year cycle.

[@justinpetersen5273]

Yea my great grandmother had 20 kids and her sister had 15

[@stich21]

4th of July is my favorite holiday. The weather in Wisconsin and the beautiful lakes make it an amazing experience.

[@susiebee122]

I think it's just the contrast on the hot skin with the cool air

[@lauranichols945]

Regarding family reunions, my grandmother’s used to attract up to 1,000 people. They were held at parks, not houses.

[@JohnSmith-tw5fl]

How big of a family, I have about 130 cousins! That's 1.2,3rd cousins. Actually, my 2nd cousins are closer to me than my own siblings. The norm was to have 12 kids and more; one grandfather was the youngest out of 16, was 66, and his oldest brother was just under 100. There is one of two towns in my state; if you're white, they are my relatives. I say that because the town was right next to a native American reservation

[@AmberDMiller]

Our family Christmas party has about 35 people, but about 10 of those are family friends. Though we do have bigger houses, we rent out a community center for the Christmas party. Then 4th of July is another big one for our family, and usually about 20-25 of us, but we can do that in one of our yards.

[@marygunn2521]

You can walk around with beer. It just has to be in a plastic cup

[@DianeCasanova]

Not everywhere. A couple of towns by me allow this only in a certain area.

[@marygunn2521]

I know it's not allowed in the Bible belt. There you can't buy liquor on Sundays.

[@CarlGorn]

17:40 With or without a beer, boating is just fun. The sun, the spray, the roar of the engine, the acres of nature just gliding by, it's a liberating feeling.

[@jennyfinlay5093]

A lot of businesses keep their place very cold because it prevents germs from spreading more.

[@CJWJR]

Additionally, their employees are on their feet, running around, working up a sweat, and the super cold A/C feels good to them. 😄

[@TruthHurts2u]

LOL, unless it's below 40F it doesn't prevent anything. The reason it's so cold is because the workers are working and they're hot because it's hot outside. They turn the AC down so it's comfortable to them. We used to get in trouble for messing with the AC where I used to work as a kid but we would do it anyway.

[@alishaperry6521]

​@CJWJR this is exactly what I was going to say lol. Could be 60 degrees in there and I'd still be dying

[@Tylermaddox1911]

​@@TruthHurts2uexactly the heat index in Georgia can easily get to 115. Humidity is terrible 95% of the time. When you come inside you really want it less than 72. I prefer 68-67. It also helps if the HVAC struggles during the hot hours. It helps keep it from heating up as fast when you get it really cold at night. Can cause the compressor to get iced up but won't if the HVAC system is clean and draining correctly.

[@emerald637]

Plus, the more bodies at 98.6 degrees each, the stuffier and warmer the room gets. Nothing like no A/C in a room full of sweaty bodies of foul-smelling B.O. on a hot summer's day, especially in a restaurant. The Health Department could fine the owners Big Time for that.

[@steves2241]

I am a 64 year old American, born and raised in Peoria Heights Illinois, a little suburb of Peoria, and I have never been to a rodeo in my life, let alone on the 4th of July. We used to rent a hotel room near the fireworks show every year and swin in the pool, drink, and eat while we watch the fireworks.

[@Aelea]

@11:10 We can drive "banged up" cars, but they have to pass an "emissions test" to make sure they're not harming the environment; and they have to be deemed safe enough to drive . *The reason they don't care if your car is **_aesthetically_** beat up, is because it would be seen as taking advantage of those in the lower classes* (who maybe cannot afford to get every ding fixed.) _However_ you must have insurance... so if your 'beat up' car causes an accident for some reason (ie: something falls off in traffic) you're liable, and could even be charged criminally with negligence should it cause injury.

[@zeuso.1947]

Many States don't have emissions or any other type of inspection or tests.

[@chrissyc8244]

We live in Washington State and go boating often and live on the Puget Sound waterfront. If you come we can host you and take you to the obligatory Seattle sights and also take you out to see the orcas in the wild and take the boat thru the lochs into Lake Washington. The lochs are like an elevator that takes boats to a higher elevation and it also goes from salt water to fresh water. If you come in summer we go tubing, paddle boarding, and kayaking…usually in the bay in front of our property. TBH, the summer is really the only good time to visit. Camping is also an option if you really like the outdoors. We like to go to the Olympic National Park

[@JamesMartinelli-jr9mh]

I'm at the public library in Miami now. Outside it's hot ( in the low 90's ) and humid. I bring winter clothes in my back-pack to wear in the library as it's so cold. I have to change in the rest-room. They always blame the computers. "The computers won't work if it's hot'.

[@4freebird69]

The driving damaged cars are not aloud, but that typically is if the bumpers are missing or a cracked windshield, such as it was in the video. They just are taking a chance at getting pulled over.

[@samiamperry2616]

It is the information in video is correct some places only car about emissions or cars of certain age or salvage title basic safety. It truly varies by state. Cars w/o bumpers or even a hood-i saw one today-doesn’t phase the local pd in my area.

[@leslielavertu5954]

Our big family started with 7 kids, then 35 nieces and nephews and then they started having their families and we lost track!!! 😂

[@kyrataylor2035]

My dad's family was just like that, but we've lost dad and all his siblings and their spouses so I'm now one of the older generation. When I was younger, it wasn't unusual to have family get-togethers of 50 or more people for most major holidays since most of us lived in the immediate area.

[@sharonmulloy2181]

16:24 We used to go down the valley and spend time with 2nd , 3rd and whatever cousins. Someone had 5 boys and at least 4 of the boys had 3 to 6 kids. However very few of their kids had more than one or two. My uncle had 4 kids, 5 grandkids, 2 great grandkids.

[@TinaVivian]

Come to Michigan, bro! The Great Lakes state has so much to offer. Detroit is enjoying a second renaissance and all the wonderful, wide open spaces, the Mighty Mac bridge heading to the Upper Penninsula, and just gorgeousness everywhere!

[@johanwarrens900]

The reason why company make their building more cooler than usual. Is to account for maximum occupancy. As we should know, our bodies put off heat. And the more bodies that are in a room/building. The hotter that building will get that much faster. Thus making them have to constantly adjust the A/C. And cold temperatures also fight off common sicknesses & illnesses. A reason why ALL American hospitals & clinics of any kind. Keep their buildings cold. ALL YEAR AROUND.

[@jacquelinebouldin8191]

When live somewhere like Texas you appreciate the cold AC because you know that hell is waiting for you when you walk back out the door. 😅

[@SurprisedAirboat-vv1zj]

It depends on what part of the country you in

[@melaniebosel1451]

My Mom is from a family of 12 children My Dad from 9 ! I had one sibling lol but the amount of cousins is insane!

[@ajerinbound9802]

Yeah I have 54 in my family that make up brothers, sisters, parents, cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, 1st cousin once removed, etc.

[@JJ-vt7sh]

My parents have 47 grandchildren so until they died around thirty years ago our family gatherings were huge. Families grew and moved away so we only have about two large family gatherings a year now. We had one last week and there were around 80 people. Obviously a lot couldn’t come but we always have between 75 and 100 still.

[@courtneyraymer6586]

Lewis, in the last part of the video where you were so envious of where the family was living, I couldn’t help but laugh a little. The visual clues in the video showed that they were in Minnesota. It is known as “The Land of 10,000 Lakes; so there are many lakeside houses. The rodeo was in St. Paul, the state capital. Maybe you’d like to be there on the 4th of July, but I doubt you’d want to be there on the 4th of January. Refer back to some of “Lost in the Pond’s” winter videos. Minnesotans really treasure their summers because they’re so short.

[@barneyduncan5811]

I think they are in Oregon because you just don’t drive down to Corvallis, Oregon from Minnesota

[@tylerdahlstrom9993]

Its Lake Oswego right outside of Portland Oregon and the St. Paul rodeo is in a small farming town in the Willamette valley also in Oregon.

[@pacmanc8103]

It’s not Minnesota, at all. It’s the Portland suburbs (Lake Oswego, a very pricey suburb) and 2 towns in the Willamette Valley - St Paul, which has an annual July 4th rodeo, and Corvallis, home of Oregon State University. Didn’t you notice the difference in trees with all of those Douglas firs?

[@kurtsnyder4752]

2:18. It is trying to compensate for the opening of the doors. If there aren't enough customers entering and exiting, it gets overly cool.

[@tiptonck55]

We spent every weekend on our boat at the lake. I would fly home every weekend to meet my family at the lake and fly out Sunday or Monday to go back to work! So many amazing memories!

[@wesnikimattes4811]

My grandmother was one of six siblings. So between the two sides of the family everyone considered my grandmother's house to be "home" for holiday gatherings. We'd have fifty swing by on Christmas lunch time to visit and meet up and another fifty in the afternoon later on. Our actual Christmas was early in the morning and only consisted of about a dozen people, but our CLOSE extended family ran up to a hundred plus. We'd have folding tables EVERYWHERE.

[@steves2241]

We have all sizes and prices of houses here, from $50,000 to $50 million, we have them all. My Father only paid $10,000 for his first house in 1950, and it was brand new, that house is still there and now it sells for about $80,000. It's a 3 bedroom one level one bath ranch style house, with an enclosed back porch and a garage. And yes, people can drive damaged cars on the road, as long as the headlights and all the taillights are still working, it is no big deal, I see damaged cars on the road almost every day. Sometimes they get the insurance money and keep it, and they do not get the car rapaired.

[@kate2create738]

My mom was born in a large family, so we always had BIG Thanksgiving celebrations and camped together at least once a year. One time our head count for Thanksgiving was over 40 almost 50 people. Christmas we can have large gather but it varies that year, the family is spread out so not everyone is available.

[@drewsteffen8166]

My grandfather was 12 of 14 children. So I have a massive family.

[@cathybrookeburt2616]

Remember every venue or every state won't have the same rules. Liquor is carefully regulated so you can't just go anywhere on the grounds if the property doesn't have the proper licensing. They can't control if kids are drinking, if you are moving around in the crowd. Places that allow it, have special licenses & insurance. ~ In the US a car can be rusty & banged up, as long as thing work properly. The lights & signals etc. ~ The boat & cool house is owned by folks with money & it is on an inland lake. We have over 11,000 of them in Michigan & we get all 4 seasons. So lucky. I can't afford to live on one, but I can visit them any time I want to. You would love it. We have waterfalls & forests & any sport you can imagine. Boating, jet skiing, swimming, water skiing, fishing, hunting, hiking, snow skiing, ice skating, snowmobiling, trail riding on bicycles or trail bikes etc.

[@MaryEvans-e5z]

My opinion is that stores are kept at a cooler temperature because the doors are opening so often the temperature inside continues to be raised each time the doors or drive up windows are opening. When my mother was growing up in the late 1920s and 1930s, the family had Sunday dinner together each week. That was my grandparents, my mom, my uncle, 4 of my grandfathers brothers and their families because they all live near each other. I grew up a minimum of 100 miles from aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents. By the time I was 9, the closest relatives were 100 miles away and all others were at least 200 miles away. We did visit the relatives 100 miles away often.

[@dgray2228]

When my family gets to gather for special occasions ie; family reunions, weddings, 4th of July, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, Mother's Day, Father's Day, Easter, Super Bowl..There is at least 57 (at last count) and we have 3 being added shortly via weddings and 2 new babies on the way.

[@lindacarroll6896]

Where my ancestors lived in the late 1800s, they decided they wanted the courthouse somewhere else (closer to the railroad), so they moved it. [They put it on large logs/trees and rolled it where they wanted to go.]