YOU KNOW YOU'RE GREEK WHEN.... (part 2)

 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.......(part 2)

• You have a family wedding to attend at least twice a year. 

 

•  You or at least most of your uncles own a spit 

 

• You consider soccer the eighth wonder of the world.

 

Your cheeks receivetheir weekly work out every time you visit an aunt. 

                                                

 

• Your last name ends with: opolous, os, as, or is.

• Your last name consists of the entire alphabet .

 When leaving a house, you stand at the front door for a half hour more and talk 

You expect atleast 600 people at your wedding 

 

You tell your parents you're seeing someone and they start sending out wedding invitations. 

 

 

You're home an hour late and you're already listed as a missing person. 

• You break a leg, and yiayia thinks your life is over. 

You tell your parents you're having a party.

They buy out the whole supermarket. 

 

 

It doesn't matter people can't hear what you're talking about - you talk so much with your hands that people know what you're going on about anyway.  

 

You go to a wedding, and are introduced to cousins that you never knew existed.

  

You tell mama you're not hungry and she thinks you have an eating disorder. 

Your yiayia / mama / thia has a miracle cure for everything. 

 

Your mother or father still feels the need to tell you, "katse kala" ("behave") in public 

 

You are familiar with the phrase, "Sto leo yia to kalo sou" (I'm saying this for your own sake!)

 

 

You have one or more of those porcelain figurines in your house or you have broken one of those porcelain figurines and mama still hasn't forgiven you for it

 

You have a bottle of OUZO in your house right now 

 

Add aki to the end of any American word, and it becomes Greek 

Your family inheritance includes olive trees and xorafyia (farming fields)

If you missed part 1 you can read it here!

All photos are courtesy of Google images.