plastic or paper
Where: grocery shopping.
So this one looks so easy for Americans but actually it is not for foreigners especially who just started to learn English or try to use English. When I first came to the United States about 4 years ago, I went grocery shopping. When I try to pay, the employee asked me “Plastic or Paper.” What the heck? I had no idea what he was asking. All of it sudden, what is plastic or paper. It turns out they are asking me whether I want to have plastic bag or paper bag. I think they use a lot of short expressions to make everything faster. So brace yourself when you go shopping!!!
It typically goes the other way, like, “paper or plastic?”