Originally Posted by
catandmouse
I also remember once being screamed at a McD as I failed to fill my bucket with ice before filling it with soda.
That's aberrant behavior (the screaming, I mean, not the absence of ice). Maybe they thought you were getting more soda than you were entitled to, but I almost never put ice in my soft drinks and have never been yelled at--or even spoken to-- about it here in the US.
Come to think of it, the only flak I've caught on the ice issue has been in Europe, where I've occasionally been lectured about Americans asking for ice, even though I've done no such thing.
I do admit, though, that my occasional quest for a cold glass of milk has marked me as an American weirdo, especially in Italy!