YOU KNOW YOU'RE GREEK WHEN..... (part 1)

       The following list has been compiled from an online student group and on a Facebook group called "Greeks Invented Everything", and even though some of it is written from the perspective of Greek-Americans, it's still highly amusing and relevant:

You know you're Greek when.......

•  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.

• You still have clothes that you used to wear when you were five stored in suitcases.     

• You hide everything from your parents, but they still think they know everything about you, and make you believe that they actually do.

• When you arrive home you find 20 people waiting for you at the airport.

• 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. 

 

• Your relatives alone could populate a small city.

• Everyone is a family friend.

• You fight over who pays the dinner bill.

 

When you go on a date you start thinking of places that you never thought of before to avoid family or family friends. You end up in a lousy place and still bump into the relative with the biggest mouth.

• You tell your friends how to rebel against their parents when you can't stay out past midnight.

• 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. 

• You're 6'2", can bench press 325 pounds, shave twice a day, but you still cry when your mother yells at you.

• Your uncle owns a restaurant, has $300,000 in the bank, but still drives a '76 Monte Carlo.

• You are a card-carrying V.I.P at more than 3 dance clubs.

• At least 5 of your cousins live on your street.

• All 5 of those cousins are named after your grandfather.

• There are more than 28 people in your bridal party.

• You have at least one relative who wore a black dress every day for an entire year after a funeral... or their entire life!


• Every Sunday afternoon of your childhood was spent visiting papou (Grandpa) and yiayia (Grandma) or extended family.

You've experienced the phenomena of 150 people fitting into 50 square feet of yard during a family cookout.

• You thought killing the lamb each year and having feta, tzatziki and olives on your dinner table was absolutely normal.

• You learned to play tavli(backgammon) before you went to school.

• You thought that talking loud was normal.

• You thought everyone got pinched on the cheeks and money stuffed in their pockets by their relatives. 

 

• Your mother is overly protective of the males in the family no matter what their age.

to be continued.....

                                                                                          All photos are courtesy of Google images.