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You know you’ve been in Sweden too long, when...
- It's acceptable to eat lunch at 11.00.
- 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.
- A sharp intake of breath has become part of your vocabulary, as has the sound 'ahh'.
- You associate Friday afternoon with a trip to system bolaget.
- Silence is fun.
- Your front door step is beginning to resemble a shoe shop.
- It no longer seems excessive to spend $200 on alcohol in a single night.
- Your old habit of being "fashionably late" is no longer acceptable. You are always on time.
- You are no longer scared of volvos and volvo drivers.
- You enjoy the taste of surströmming.
- An outside temperature of 9 degrees Celsius is mild.
- You wear sandals with socks.
- You think riding a racing bike in the snow is a perfectly sensible thing to do.
- You think it's more fun to stay at home and drink then go out.
- You wear warm clothing when it's 25 degrees plus in April - because it's April.
- You wear shorts and t-shirt when it's barely 10 degrees in July - because it's July.
- You get extremely annoyed when the bus is two minutes late.
- You think women are more than equal than men and deserve to have better positions in the work place.
- You become a punctuality freak and dump your friends for being late more than once.
- You've been engaged for four years and don't have any plans to get married.
- You think that if you smoke a joint you will wind up in an insane asylum. [or become a habitual criminal]
- You wear a dress or skirt over your trousers and combine them with training shoes. [this is especially problematic if you're male]
- You think black rimmed glasses are cool.
- You don't question the concept of 'telephone time'.
- Paying $5 for a cup of coffee seems reasonable.
- You understand that when a colleague asks you out for "a drink," it will probably be a long night with a severe hangover the next day.
- You start to think that having a sauna in the nude with a bunch of strangers is a necessary part of daily life ... and a necessary part of business.
- You get offended if, at a dinner party, someone fails to look you in the eyes after raising their glass for a toast.
- You become extremely skilled at assembling pre-packaged furniture kits.
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