Sunday, March 28, 2010

You know you're Romanian when...

Hilarious!!!! And oooh so true!!!! Puuuahahahahahaha
You know you're Romania when:
You cant have a boyfriend when you are 17 but you have to be married at 18. You grew up on liver pate sandwiches.... and thought that it was normal.
You make your own noodles. You had to share a room until you were 21.
You eat everything with sour cream. You try and reuse gift wrappers, gift boxes, and of course aluminum foil.
You are standing next to the two largest suitcases at the airport. You arrive one or two hours late to a party - and think its normal.
All your children have nick names, which sound nowhere close to their real names. You know someone with 20 kids.
You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house. You can fit 10 people into a Dacia.
You know what a Dacia is.
Your parents never throw anything away and if you by some chance manage to get something to make it to the garbage can... it mysteriously appears back where it was again.
You have lace tablecloths. You have lace curtains. You have lace curtains hanging across doorways.
You have rugs covering every inch of your house.
You have or ever had rugs on your walls.
Your mom tells you you're too skinny even though your 30 pounds overweight.
You ever heard of 'stomach stew'.
Your parents tell you not to care what your friends think but they won't let you do certain things because of what 'frati' and 'surori' will think.
You know someone that married his girlfriend of 2 months.
You ever said, "Nu pot right now ca sunt busy!" or any other sentence in a similar bilingual format.
Your mom is a doctor and force feeds you medicine for anything ranging from a headache, stomach ache to a stubbed toe.
Your house is full of Romanian medicine that is probably illegal here.
You ever had to hide your little tv from your parents.
You and your friends have ever been kicked out of a restaurant orrecreational park for being too loud or rowdy.
You and your friends are banned from ever entering a restaurant or recreational park.
Your mom recycles plastic cups and paper plates, and sandwich bags by washing them.
You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table.
You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
Your dad ever butchered a pig or lamb.
You ever ate pig skin.
You keep leftover food in your fridge in as many numbers of bowls as possible.
Your kitchen shelf is full of jam jars, varieties of bowls and plasticutensils (Got free with some household items).
Going to the movies is a sin.
Your parents call you farm animals when you get them mad.
Your mom ever chased you with a rolling pin or a broom telling you to stop so that she could hit you.
Your dad ever threatened to smack you across the mouth for being disrespectful.
You're twenty years old and your parents are trying to send you to romoville to get you married cause your old.
Getting married at 18 is normal.
Getting married at 16 actually happens.
Your mom washes your clothing at 40.
Asking if you can get a discount at a discount store on clearance items is normal and not embarrassing for your parents.
You don't use measuring cups when cooking.
You feel like you've gotten a good deal if you didn't pay tax.
You can only travel if there are 5 persons at least to see you off orreceive you whether you are traveling by bus, train or plane.
You only make long distance calls after 11 p.m.
If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they ask if you've eaten, even if it's midnight.
When your parents meet strangers and talk for a few minutes, you discover you're talking to a distant cousin.
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.
You have bed sheets on your sofas so as to keep them away from getting dirty.
It's "normal" if your wedding has 600 people.
You dont know half the people at your wedding cuz your parents invited them.
You've seen the ground while inside the lavatory of a train.
You have mastered the art of bargaining in grocery shopping.
You walk out of the grocery store with no less then two packed shopping carts weekly.
You ever took a picture in a bathroom or saw a pic of a group of girls in a bathroom.
You have a RO sticker on your car.
You drive at 180 kph on even tiny roads, but when someone flashes to say there are cops in the neighbourhood, you slow down to 50 in a 100 zone.
When you hear someone say "We live in Romania and that takes up all our free time", you nod and smile knowingly.
You've just bought a top-of-the-range washing machine in Flanco, but still insist on washing by hand to save on electricity.
When going to pick someone up from their home and you don't know them very well yet, you are too embarrassed to go in so you look for silly excuse to wait at the door; like: its sunny out, its fine, they wont take long either.
When going to someones house to pick them up and their grandma/grandpa answer the door they don't invite you in but instead they listen to your greeting then slam the door in your face. Then you hear a really loud scream (like they scream from Europe to Asia): "______ is here to get you, move it don't make the guest wait at the door until you get ready."
Every time you call your grandma to check in with her she complains about the heat and hot water being too expensive.
If in your group of friends happen to be a few guys (this is for a girl) then you've ashamed your family. "what are the neighbors gonna say now???" your grandma will say.
Your dad is extremely strict and has a baseball bat by his bed, and in his car of course for any guys trying to approach you.
Your dad is extremely strict and you're not allowed to have a boyfriend until very old, but when you don't do it as soon as you're allowed they start freaking out about what's wrong with you.
You eat a dinner of Ciorba de Perisoare (topped with smantana), 1/2 Kilo of pork, a portion of Cartofi Taranesti, a load of pilaf, maybe a few sarmale, topped off by a plate of Papanasi with LOTS of smantana and a few beers, followed two hours later by 8 mici and a plate of greasy chips, with more beer, and then wonder why you are putting on weight.
You keep bread in plastic bags that you hang at a door knob or something.
Instead of change you get gum or candy from the cashier at the supermarket.
You have really enjoyed reading this :)
If you'd like to ad to this list, please feel free!!!!
Xo