Brits were quick to chime in about why things are the way they are
An American tourist has revealed the four peculiarities she discovered in her hotel room whilst visiting the UK, prompting Brits to step in and clarify the reasoning behind each one.
Amber Kacherian, who boasts over one million TikTok followers, has been documenting her travels across Britain with friends on the platform.
Whilst her audience has been captivated by her adventures, British viewers have frequently flooded her comment sections, baffled by the cultural differences between the UK and USA.
In her latest clip, Amber highlighted four aspects of her hotel accommodation that struck her as peculiar, though Brits were quick to justify why these differences actually make perfect sense.
“Things in my British hotel that are weird to Americans,” she announced at the beginning of her video, filmed in what looked like a typical hotel room.
No plug sockets in bathrooms
Top of her list was the absence of power sockets within the bathroom itself.
“So the only outlet in this bathroom is just a small one for an electric shaver,” she pointed out.
Amber expressed particular annoyance at being unable to use her hairdryer, curling iron or straighteners in the bathroom, as the nearest socket was positioned in the centre of the hotel room. “Which begs the question, where do you plug in your hair styling tools?” she queried her viewers.
“How do you do your hair with no mirror?”
Two flush buttons on the loo
“Number two, no pun intended, two different buttons to flush the toilet,” Amber disclosed as she displayed the two flush buttons on the wall above the toilet.
She continued to explain that above every toilet, there are two buttons – a larger one and a smaller one. She assumed they differ depending on what you’re flushing.
“So, in America, there’s just one switch that flushes everything. We don’t have two different flushes based on how much you’ve just deposited into the toilet,” she clarified. “Just one switch takes care of it all.”
Ground floor is not the same as first floor
For her third point, Amber exited their hotel room to the lifts, where she pointed out the sign which listed all the different floors of the building.
“The ground floor here is called zero instead of one. In America, we would call the ground floor the first floor,” she informed her viewers. “And the floor above that would be the second floor.”
She elaborated that when they had received their room number, which was on the first floor, they found it puzzling that they’d had to go up to the first floor, which they had considered the second floor, in order to locate their rooms.
Light switches outside the bathroom
Next, Amber voiced her bewilderment upon discovering that the light switches for the bathroom were located outside the bathroom door rather than inside.
“Why do they put the light switch outside the bathroom?” she queried. “Because that means you could turn off the light on someone who’s in the bathroom while they’re in there.”
This sparked a mischievous idea, as she was then seen dashing over to her friend’s room to switch off the bathroom light while he was still inside.
While these peculiarities left the American group of friends baffled, Brits quickly took to the comments section to shed some light on these ‘odd’ practices.
“Yeah it’s against the law to have sockets in bathrooms because you know safety,” one person clarified. Another added: “Anything electrical that needs a 3 way British plug aren’t used where there is water and steam. Too dangerous.”
Another commenter chimed in: “To be fair I’m not sure most of us understand the flushes. We just press something and hope for the best.”
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