I have a couple of things to add. My son ends most of his sentences with "and what nots"--whatever that means. And my British son-in-law says "hoovering" for vacuuming, calls the car trunk a "boot" and the hood a "bonnet". There are a lot of other things he says differently but I can't remember them right now.
As far as basing directions on something along the route, my former son-in-law gave me directions on how to get to their house by saying something like this: "Go down the road and turn at the cows." Turn at the cows? This was in a farming community. Cows are very common in that area. I did understand what he meant though, when I got to the "cows". I had passed many intersections that had a few cows in the field, but the one he referenced had probably 500 cows in the field. It was still confusing and make me uncomfortable thinking I was going to get lost--because how do you base directions on something that moves around, like cows? :lol: