Sad, but true
You know you're EASTERN EUROPEAN when..... (I have only kept the ones that actually are true for me)
1. Your neighbour comes over every day uninvited, for coffee.
4. You arrive one or two hours late to a party - and think its normal.
5. All your siblings have nick names, which sound nowhere close to their real names.
6. You know someone with 20 kids
7. You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house.
14. Your house is full of medicine from your old country and it’s probably all illegal here.
19. Your dad ever butchered a pig or lamb.
21. You're in your twenties and your parents are trying to send you back to your country to get you married cause your old.
24. You don't use measuring cups when cooking.
27. Your parents don't realize phone connections to foreign countries have improved in the last two decades, and still scream at the top of their lungs when making foreign calls.
33. You own a leather jacket.
40. If you are a girl and not married by the age of 20 you are an old maid
44. Your friends' parents talk to you like they're YOUR PARENTS too.
50. You’re a proud Eastern European and pass this on to your European friends..
54. You have 17 consonants and 2 vowels in your last name.
57. You take your shoes off when you enter the house, and everyfamily member has his/her own slippers (plus some extra for the guests).
61. Your mother threatens you with "Oh, just wait till your father gets home."
posted by Elena at 3:41 PM
7 Comments:
dude, in my house, there's at least 10 pairs of slippers.
Hey, some of those apply to me, too!
Jenn, which ones :)?
i think these apply to anybody with a relatively large extended family ;)
1, 6, 7, 24, 44, 40, 57, and especially 61
Also, I'm the opposite of 54, I have more vowels than consonants in my last name. But we're Italian, what do you expect? ;)
Yeah, I guess maybe these are more universal than just EE. But then again, you study EE, so they might have rubbed off on you.
Funny list, some features sound more oriental than eastern european to me. I liked the most the talking at the door. It's so true. I'm sure many people would have it in their Top 3 favourite things list. It's almost epic, deserves some sort of poetic name -'Eternal Leaving' for ins :)
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