Keith's Top 10 Things Learnt in Brighton

We’ve been in Brighton for close to two years now, so I thought it was a good time to look back and summarize what I’ve learnt (yes, learnt).  So, here are my Top 10 Things I’ve Learnt in Brighton.  Enjoy.

Keith

1. Don’t use the “hand towel” hanging next to a bidet.
2. “Tea” only means “tea” when it is coupled with “coffee” as in “tea and coffee.”
3. Body odour smells the same in England as it does in Texas . . . unless the offending person recently ate curry.
4. Brits love curry.
5. If you see dry seagull poop, it’s not dry.
6. If you inadvertently use the word “pants” when you mean “trousers” it is almost always funny.
7. If you’re on a city bus, it’s actually possible to get off at a stop and get on another bus in front of you at the same stop before it drives away.
8. Driving on the left side of the road isn’t that difficult, but going the right direction around a roundabout is.
9. Two hundred people can be on one train car to London on a weekday morning and not one of them will be talking, but only two people can be in an open-plan office (no cubicles) and they’ll be talking so loudly you can’t hear the phone ring.
10. You don’t have to pick up your own dog’s poop—you just circle it with chalk and write “pick up.”  You can even make a package out of it by putting paper over it, taping it down and writing on it “Dog poo under here.”  That way, if anyone wants it, they can get it.  We never seem to have any chalk or paper and tape with us when we walk Lucy, so we just pick it up with dog poop bags.