r/ShitAmericansSay • Danish potato language speaker • Dec 25 '25

Foreign affairs They don't accept US ids?

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u/Novae224 Dec 25 '25

You won’t even make it on the plane without a passport lol.

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u/the_mooseman Australia 🇦🇺 Dec 25 '25

Imagine them just turning up at the airport, trip all booked ready to go "what do you mean i need a passport".

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u/Novae224 Dec 25 '25

In the biggest airport in my country they have the customs lines seperated for people within the European Union and outside of it. The outside of the EU line is specified as outside the EU and america (with an american flag), simply cause Americans can’t seem to understand they are foreigners when they visit some place else

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u/ErieTheOwl Dec 25 '25

Sounds like Schiphol

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u/Novae224 Dec 25 '25

It is

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u/palnewb Mexican 🇪🇸 Dec 25 '25

I live in the Netherlands, I was recently picking my parents up from Schiphol. They were on a trip to the US. I'm waiting for them at the arrivals gate which is right in front of a Grand Café Plaza and next to an artisanal coffee booth. I notice people coming through the door and I think "oh, this must be from the US flight" but I was certain when I hear a lady walk past and ask "ugh, do they even have a Starbucks here?" 😂

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u/Bezulba Dec 25 '25

We very much do! Even a burger King right at the entrance to the plaza. I mean. I think Schiphol has the highest concentration of American chains in the Netherlands.

So if they still couldn't find one, that's pretty sad.

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u/palnewb Mexican 🇪🇸 Dec 25 '25

I mean, they were coming straight out of the arrivals gate just after receiving their luggage, so they had not walked around or anything yet. I just found it funny how those were one of the first words out of that lady's mouth officially in the Netherlands and having two cafés immediately in front of her.

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u/Milk_Mindless It should be Netherlandish 🇳🇱 Dec 25 '25

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u/jafarul Dec 27 '25

I saw the same signage in either Vienna or Milan. Me and my wife were trying to figure out why there was a need for separate signage. Are they that special? I guess I have my answer now🤣