I found this online, and believe it or not, most of the points are true! Here are my favourites:
- You rummage through your plastic bag collection to see which ones you should keep to take to the store and which can be sacrificed to garbage.
- The first thing you do on entering a bank/post office/pharmacy etc. is look for the queue number machine.
- You accept that you will have to queue to take a queue number.
- A sharp intake of breath has become part of your vocabulary, as has the sound 'ahh'.
- Silence is fun.
- Your front door step is beginning to resemble a shoe shop.
- You give up on trying to find fat-free food and pile on the butter, cream and sugar.
- Wearing black leggings with floral dresses is fashionable.
- The only thing in your quick memory is “Hej” and “Hej Hej” in Swedish.
- The reason you take the ferry to Finland is:
a. duty free vodka
b. duty free beer
c. to party - The fact that all of the "v's" and the "w's" are together in the phone directory seems right.
- Your old habit of being "fashionably late" is no longer acceptable. You are always on time.
- You use mmmm as a conversation filler.
- Christmas has changed so much that you only associate it with rice porridge, lucia cats, and Donald Duck
- You start to differentiate between types of snow
- You happily engage in a conversation about the weather.
- You wear sandals with socks.
- You don't mind letting people know what you're planning on doing when you go to the bathroom.
- You can use bra, fart, and slut in the same sentence without giggling
- You start to miss falukorv when you go on vacation.
- You eat jam with savoury dishes.
- You put ketchup on your macaroni. Just ketchup. And love it
- After eating at a café/restaurant, you think it's completely normal to tidy your table, collect all your stuff onto a tray and carry it over a trolley so that the staff doesn't have to do it.
- You split the bill by the exact penny after eating at a restaurant.
- You have only two facial expressions, smiling or blank.
- You think riding a racing bike in the snow is a perfectly sensible thing to do.
- Your wife watches TV while you look after the kids.
- When a stranger asks you a question in the streets, you think it's normal to just keep walking, saying nothing.
- You wonder how people afford beer.
- You always carry a pocket full of coins to pay for public toilets or the toilets at McDonalds
- You plan every second of your day, including the visits to the bathroom.
- Your wardrobe now consists of 20 different shades of black and grey..
- You eat unlimited amounts of sausage products without worrying about your nitrate intake.
- You assume that anyone who apologizes after bumping into you is a tourist..
- Paying $5 for a cup of coffee seems reasonable.
- You get offended if, at a dinner party, someone fails to look you in the eyes after raising their glass for a toast.
- Seeing a young woman with lit candles stuck to her head no longer disturbs you.
- You become extremely skilled at assembling pre-packaged furniture kits.
- "Candles" are a permanent fixture on your weekly shopping list.
- Most of your friends have the same names and you must use both names to distinguish between them.
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