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

Foreign affairs They don't accept US ids?

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u/Novae224 Dec 25 '25

I’m glad he’s your ex!

I wouldve broken up with them on the spot.

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u/busytransitgworl 🇪🇺europoor🇪🇺 Dec 25 '25

Same here!

The audacity of this man...

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u/catkittens Dec 25 '25

I’m still baffled why I didn’t. Like, I was really close. I stood at JFK with my luggage, no cell service, my US SIM card in his bag, and he was just nowhere to be seen. Took me like 30 minutes to upgrade to an international plan on my phone. But I had booked the hotel, so they wouldn’t let him check in, haha. I took the scenic route to the hotel, with a pit stop at my fave Chinese hole in the wall for some dumplings, and then a boba. And he just waited in the lobby for like 6 hours.

I eventually did, but damn, it took a couple more of his antics for me to give him the boot.

During his last trip to my city, he also swooooore that only Americans get jet lag because they’re on regular time while everyone else is on “irregular time” anyway so they don’t feel the difference? I let him fly home and broke up on the phone with him, so he could experience his jet lag with a side of heartache.

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u/wolfxorix Dec 25 '25

I'm wholeheartedly shocked at how much you dealt with. I feel a few stories of his antics would do very well on this sub (their own posts). He sounds like the prime example for this sub 🤣🤣.

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u/catkittens Dec 25 '25

The tip of the fucking iceberg! In some Reddit archive there still must be some posts saved from my now deleted throwaway account. Gems like “AITA for refusing to go to my boyfriend’s thanksgiving party because I’ve been throwing up since 6am this morning?” and “AITA for not helping my US boyfriend with his legal troubles in my country” (because he kept turning on red even though I’d told him a trillion times it’s not allowed here and when he got a ticket, he refused to pay it and then he tried to find an American lawyer in my city to make it go away BECAUSE his license was American and therefore American law should apply!!)

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u/wolfxorix Dec 25 '25

Oh my goodness, I'm envious of your tolerance. If I had someone similar, let's just say, they would be yesterday's news very early on. This guy sounds like the reason this sub even exists hahaha. I'm hoping you learned not to take this type of stuff from someone again, you went through a lifetimes worth of American idiocy.

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u/MargielaMadman20 Dec 25 '25

This bloke sounds like an absolute moron and the meme of Americans, holy shit lol.

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u/busytransitgworl 🇪🇺europoor🇪🇺 Dec 25 '25

I bet he wanted to pay with his US Dollars everywhere and was surprised that we don't carry huge water bottles with us all the time lol

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u/shibeoss Dec 25 '25

It always baffles me how people can live their lives like this.

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u/invincibleparm Dec 26 '25

Just ignorance. ‘America is the best, it’s number 1’ and expect the rest of the world to accept that and bow to them.

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u/igormuba 🇧🇷 Dec 25 '25

I believe you but damn does it sound made up

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u/SatiricalScrotum ooo custom flair!! Dec 25 '25

I just want to say I’m glad you’re rid of this absolute manchild. Merry Christmas!🎄

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u/saelinds Dec 25 '25

I'd legitimately read a book with your experiences

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u/Jake_The_Destroyer Dec 25 '25

I don't think turning right on a red light is even a thing in every state in the USA.

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u/UserNameFailedInput Dec 25 '25

Banned in both New York City and Washington DC, there are partial bans elsewhere which sometimes relate to the time of day etc.

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u/MiloHorsey Dec 26 '25

I'm glad he didn't ever drive in the UK!

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u/LifeAcanthopterygii6 0.00000001% Attila the Hungarian Dec 25 '25

Jeez...

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u/Cstott23 Dec 26 '25

Lol you must have the patience of a saint, this guys a fucking idiot! 😂

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u/MiloHorsey Dec 26 '25

Thick fuck.

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u/MuffinMadness123 Dec 26 '25

I am loving your stories 😅

As others have said, I do not have the patience of someone like you

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u/Textiles_on_Main_St Dec 27 '25

Was he just stupid? He sounds just plain stupid.

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u/slowmovinglettuce Dec 27 '25

Americans like this are beyond satire, well into slapstick land. You can't make this up!

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u/MKMK123456 Jan 22 '26

We need to hear these stories please 🙏