- You rummage through your plastic bag collection to see which ones you can keep to take to the shop and which ones can be sacrificed for rubbish.
- The first thing you do upon entering a bank/post office/chemist etc. is to look for the queue number machine.
- When a stranger on the street smiles at you, you assume:
a: he is drunk
b: he is insane
c: he’s an American - A friend asks about your holiday plans and you answer “Oh, I’m going to Europe!” meaning any other Western European country outside of Sweden.
- Silence is fun.
- Your coffee consumption exceeds 6 cups a day and coffee is too weak if there is less than 10 scoops per pot.
- You pass a supermarket and think “Wow, it is open, I had better go in an buy something!”
- Your notion of street life is reduced to the few teenagers hanging out in front of the railway station on Friday nights.
- You eat herring in 105 ways.
- Indoors you wear sandals with socks, regardless of the season.
- You know that more than three channels means cable.
- It’s acceptable to eat lunch at 11.00.
- You associate Friday afternoon with a trip to systembolaget.
- You get extremely annoyed when the bus is two minutes late.
- It doesn’t feel like lunch unless it’s a hot, full course meal drenched in gravy.
- You get into a Mercedes taxi cab and think nothing of it
- When offered a bottle of beer the first thing you look at is the alcoholic percentage.
- You think it is normal EVERYTHING is regulated and you obey the rules voluntarily.
- People keep showing you print outs of this list on the bus.
- You wear a dress or skirt over your trousers and combine them with training shoes (this is especially problematic if you are male)
- You can’t throw a plastic bottle away with out having a guilty conscience.
- You can use bra, fart, and slut in the same sentence without giggling.
- Food is supposed to often be white in colour.
- You no longer look for toilets marked specifically male or female
- You are accustomed to every other front page headline in Expresson or Aftonbladet being about some food/drink/activity being dangerous for your health
- YOU CAN’T UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE LIVE ANYWHERE BUT IN SWEDEN!!!!
from: aussies in sweden full list here
