Culture shock

At home one of my favourite things to do is go late night shopping on a saturday. Its fun and i always run into people i know, usually several. Saturday night in australia, after feeding the kids we headed out about 6pm to go get some groceries. We headed off to the local woolworths, but lo and behold they were closed. We found a local guy just getting into his car, and he was helpful enough to point us to the local gas station, then he remembered "Food works" a sort of dairy/mini-mart which was open til 7pm. We got there at ten to 7 ran in and grabbed a few things that we needed and dashed out again. Bizarre this place. Theres also a profusion of traffic lights everywhere here. Every 200m you have to stop at a red light. The other weird thing is the millions of toll roads everywhere. We had to stop 3x on the motorway the other day between Brisbane and the Gold Coast to pay money for the roads. Roads cost a lot so i can see why they have to charge for it, it just takes some getting used to.