Since I DID miss a post I will make up for it by making this. Here are a bunch of things that are fun and different about Germany!
1) Every grocery store has at least 2 yards of shelf that is just Haribo
2) Grocery stores don't provide you with bags, paper nor plastic, you have to bring something for yourself
3)People that are checking you out always have a seat, they are never (or very seldom) standing4) The windows open both on the bottom hindge and on the side
5) Stuff that is finger food, is eaten here with a fork and knife
6) One moment it's sunny, the next moment it is pouring, and then in 10 minutes it is again sunny
7) Resturants don't give you water for free
8) Often it is not free refills, even for subway or something like that
9) Breakfest consists usually of bread with some spread on it, lunch is usually something hot, for me I usually have a sandwich, and dinner is not always hot, it can sometimes just be bread with cheese and meat
10) The drinks here all have bubbles. Eg. They have mineral water and regular water, they have apple juice with and without bubbles, sports drinks almost always have bubbles. I like bubbles in everything... except water, that tastes nasty to me =)
11) Smoking is much more common here, and much more accepted
12) Gas pumps are parallel to the road that they are on, often in the US they are perpendicular
13) Everything comes in smaller packages. My family buys 10 1L milk things at a time, not 4 big huge jugs
14) The windows are huge, they are made so you don't always need the lights on
15) Cars here are small and effecient. One of the cars here gets 80 mpg. Also, Americans are never allowed to complain about gas prices, $8 per gallon is common here, and considered quite cheap
16) In Germany there are 4 main garbage bins. Yellow is for plastics, including most wrappers, Green is for paper, Black is for general garbage, and brown is for organic stuff.
17) There are 2 buttons on the toilet! German's have tons of little things to make stuff more effecient, and frankly speaking, Americans don't really care about that much
That's what I can think of just now, haha, there are many other small things!