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| You Know You're Greek When...#3 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1. You make frappe before leaving home, when getting to the office, after lunch, when having guests, before the guests leave, after the guests leave and before going to bed. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2. When shops have a sale, they call your mom. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 3. You still have clothes that you used to wear when you were five stored in suitcases. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 4. You call an older person you've never met before "Theo" (Uncle: father's side) or "Thea" (Uncle: Mother's side). | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 5. You hide everything from your parents, but they still think they know everything about you, and make you believe that they actually do. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 6. You learn how to beg the personnel at the airport to allow the excess baggage you've got as soon as your father stops doing that for you. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 7. When you arrive home, you find 20 people waiting for you at the airport. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 8. Every summer you must go to your village. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 9. Every time you go to your village, you meet relatives you never new they existed, and they look nothing like your family. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 10. You look for universities as far away from home as possible or as close to home as possible. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 11. You always curse at Greeks and then when you travel to Europe or the States you only make Greek friends. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 12. When you come back from college, you still have to live with your parents, and fight over curfew all over again, as if you never left them before. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 13. Your relatives alone could populate a small city. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 14. Everyone is a family friend. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 15. You fight over who pays the dinner bill. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 16. You teach Europeans/Americans swear words in your language. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 17. When you go on a date, you start thinking of places that you never thought of before to avoid family or family friends. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 18. You end up in a lousy place and still bump into the relative with the biggest mouth. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 19. You think you are liberated when you can't even smoke in public. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 20. If you are 25 and not married yet, your parents make you feel that you are getting too old. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 21. Getting married becomes the only way you could escape your parents. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 22. You tell your friends how to rebel against their parents when you can't stay out past midnight. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 23. You always say, "Open the light" instead of "Turn on the light" | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 24. You ask your dad a simple question and he tells you a story of how he had to walk miles just to get to school with no shoes. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 25. Your parents were ranked the first in school. (...or so they claim) | ||||||||||||||||||||