Money and cars

I am still finding all sorts of little things that throw you. Take the money for example. All the notes are the same size and they are all green. A few years ago they added colour to some of their notes so some are green with a touch of brown or some other type of colour, not the sort of thing those of us familiar with really coloured notes would expect. But, at first glance, they all look green. As a result it is so easy to get the different denominations mixed up so I am making sure I keep my notes facing the same way and in order in my wallet, i.e. all the US$1 notes together, then the 5$s, then the $10s, followed by any $20s then if I have any the $50s.
Then there are the coins. They are all much smaller than coins in either the UK or Oz. The smallest is the 1 cent which is brown, followed by the larger silver coloured 5 cent, and then the smaller 10 cent and the largest of all, the 25 cent coin. I gather they are some 1$ coins around but I have not seen one yet. I am still finding this confusing.
However, there was a recent court decision stating that the current dollar bills are discriminatory as blind people have extreme difficulty with them as they are all the same size and virtually the same colour (which makes it difficult for partially blind people, and of course people like me). It will be interesting to see what happens to the greenback from here.

Another one of those little things that I have noticed, you cannot buy roll on deodorant, no idea why.

Petrol (read gas) stations here are also different. I am used to the big oil company chains, such as Shell, or BP, or Esso, or Amoco, followed by supermarket label stations such as Sainsbury in the UK or Woolworths in Aussie. Here the biggest chain I have encountered is called, WAWA. I have yet to see oil company gas stations though I am sure they exist.
Not only that, you pull up, swipe your card, and it checks you balance. If it determines you have enough credit (or if it is a debit card whether you have sufficient in your account) and then lets you fill up, or at least to within a certain limit of your maximum credit/debit. You get your receipt and drive away. If however you want to pay cash, you go in and pay first, then you can put that amount of gas in your tank.
Car washes. I seem to recall that they are virtually the same in the UK and in Oz. You usually go to a petrol station and pay your fee, drive round the back of the car wash, when it is ready, drive in and the car then sits still while the device moves around the car. All in all it does not take up much space.

I was taken to a car wash that was on a huge (and I mean huge) amount of land. You paid for your wash, drove the car on to a moving ramp and sat in it as it was taken through went through the initial cycle. Whereas in Oz and the UK the brushes etc move around the car, here the car moved along whilst the brushes stayed in one place. Once this part is finished, you drove out the other end and towards the next section where you got out and went and had coffee. Meanwhile, a person drove your car onto the next moving ramp and a team of people polished it and cleaned out the inside as it was all moving along. It was a regular production line of cars going through. At the end the car was delivered back to you. It was not exactly cheap but it was extremely busy.

This place also had a Dog Wash area. You take you pet it and there are special tables, leads (to hold the animal in place, nozzles and hoses, shampoos etc, to wash and then dry your dog. I also have seen place where you can wash your horse as well.......