My kinda town

I have this notion that Americans before they can say "Mommy" or "Daddy" learn how to whoop and scream. I know us Brits are generally reserved, well except in an office environment but the Yanks sure know how to get excited.

At any opportunity American's find a reason to clap, whoop, cheer, wave their arms in the air and shout and scream. In sport, every move is met with a whooped approval. On quiz shows they answer a question and clap themselves before the answer is given. High fives replace a nodded approval. Girls scream, not only when they are in my company, but at a drop of a hat and heaven forbid someone spotting a television camera. It is taught at an early age that it must be screeched into looking like a mad thing, normally holding up some hurriedly produced banner like "Hello Wichita" or some equally fucked up faraway place where everyone has the same surname.

In fact it is more likely that the average American 2-year old's first words would be "whose ya Daddy" as opposed to plain "Dadda."