Thursday, January 27, 2011

You know you've been in Sweden too long, when..

I found this online, and believe it or not, most of the points are true!  Here are my favourites:
  1. 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.
  2. The first thing you do on entering a bank/post office/pharmacy etc. is look for the queue number machine.
  3. You accept that you will have to queue to take a queue number.
  4. A sharp intake of breath has become part of your vocabulary, as has the sound 'ahh'.
  5. Silence is fun.
  6. Your front door step is beginning to resemble a shoe shop.
  7. You give up on trying to find fat-free food and pile on the butter, cream and sugar.
  8. Wearing black leggings with floral dresses is fashionable.
  9. The only thing in your quick memory is “Hej” and “Hej Hej” in Swedish.
  10. The reason you take the ferry to Finland is:
       a. duty free vodka
       b. duty free beer
       c. to party
  11. The fact that all of the "v's" and the "w's" are together in the phone directory seems right.
  12. Your old habit of being "fashionably late" is no longer acceptable. You are always on time.
  13. You use mmmm as a conversation filler.
  14. Christmas has changed so much that you only associate it with rice porridge, lucia cats, and Donald Duck
  15. You start to differentiate between types of snow
  16. You happily engage in a conversation about the weather. 
  17. You wear sandals with socks.
  18. You don't mind letting people know what you're planning on doing when you go to the bathroom.
  19. You can use bra, fart, and slut in the same sentence without giggling
  20. You start to miss falukorv when you go on vacation.
  21. You eat jam with savoury dishes.
  22. You put ketchup on your macaroni. Just ketchup. And love it
  23. 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.
  24. You split the bill by the exact penny after eating at a restaurant.
  25. You have only two facial expressions, smiling or blank.
  26. You think riding a racing bike in the snow is a perfectly sensible thing to do.
  27. Your wife watches TV while you look after the kids.
  28. When a stranger asks you a question in the streets, you think it's normal to just keep walking, saying nothing.
  29. You wonder how people afford beer.
  30. You always carry a pocket full of coins to pay for public toilets or the toilets at McDonalds
  31. You plan every second of your day, including the visits to the bathroom.
  32. Your wardrobe now consists of 20 different shades of black and grey..
  33. You eat unlimited amounts of sausage products without worrying about your nitrate intake.
  34. You assume that anyone who apologizes after bumping into you is a tourist..
  35. Paying $5 for a cup of coffee seems reasonable.
  36. You get offended if, at a dinner party, someone fails to look you in the eyes after raising their glass for a toast.
  37. Seeing a young woman with lit candles stuck to her head no longer disturbs you.
  38. You become extremely skilled at assembling pre-packaged furniture kits.
  39. "Candles" are a permanent fixture on your weekly shopping list.
  40. Most of your friends have the same names and you must use both names to distinguish between them.

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