"I couldn't eat Flipper!" The dolphin you see on restaurant menus is NOT Flipper. We do not (to the best of our knowledge) eat dolphin the mammal, they are safe if a little overcrowded at Miami Seaquarium. The dolphin you see on a menu is a rather pleasant white fish and not one of those lovely creatures you can swim with in the Keys.
"These bloody notes all look alike". For a start, they're not notes, they're bills. You're definitely just off the boat if you refer to a ten-dollar note. And they're all the same colour because Americans, believe it or not, can tell the differences between the figures 1, 5, 10, 20, 50 and 100! You've been mollycoddled in the UK with your different-coloured bills .. er ... notes.
"Oooh, these midge bites are itching like buggery..." Wrong again. You've been bitten by mosquitoes or no-see-ums. And no, as far as medical science is aware, you're not going to catch AIDs if a mosquito bites you. Give it a couple of months and you won't even notice those bites ... honest.
"Why is everybody driving so damn slow?" Firstly because speed limits here in Florida are WAY lower than in the UK. Or it could be that you're in a school zone - watch for those flashing lights!
"Twenty Marlboro, please" Dead giveaway! Ask for twenty Marlboro at 7-11 and you'll get two cartons....
"Wanna fag?" Firstly, you know very well that fag means something completely different so it's not wise to let THAT little word slip out too often. Secondly, it's a curiosity of UK/US etiquette that in England you offer people your (expensive) cigarettes, whereas people rarely do with their (far cheaper) American ones. Odd, I know, but true.
"Hell, it's hot".
Yup. Welcome to Florida!
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