>
>Everything you eat is savored in garlic, onion and tomatoes.

>
>You try and reuse gift wrappers, gift boxes, and of course
>aluminum foil.

>
>You try to eject food particles from between your teeth by
>pressing your
>tongue against them and making a peculiar noise like, tshick,
>tshick,
>tschick, tschick.

>
>You are standing next to the two largest size suitcases at
>the airport.

>
>You arrive one or two hours late to a party - and think its
>normal.

>
>You peel the stamps off letters that the Postal Service
>missed to mark up.

>
>You recycle Wedding Gifts.

>
>All your children have nick names, which sound nowhere close
>to their real
>names.

>
>You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's
>house.

>
>You load up the family car with as many people as possible.

>
>You use plastic to cover anything new in your house whether
>it's the remote
>control, VCR, carpet or new couch.

>
>Your parents tell you not to care what your friends think but
>they won't
>let you do certain things because of what the other "Uncles
>And Aunties"
>will think.

>
>You buy and display crockery, which is for special occasions
>and that never
>happen.

>
>You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table.

>
>You use grocery bags to hold garbage.

>
>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
>plastic
>utensils (Got free with some household items).

>
>You carry a stash of your own food whenever you travel (and
>travel means
>any car ride longer than 15 minutes).

>
>You fight over who pays the dinner bill.

>
>You majored in engineering, medicine or law and now are after
>Software and
>only Software, no matter, which field you belong to.

>
>You live with your parents and you are 40 years old.
(And
>they prefer it
>that way).

>
>You don't use measuring cups when cooking.

>
>You feel like you've gotten a good deal if you didn't pay tax.

>
>You never learnt how to stand in a queue.

>
>You can only travel if there are 5 persons at least to see
>you off or
>receive 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 embarrassing if your wedding has less than 600 people.

>
>List your daughter as "fair and slim" in the matrimonial no
>matter what she
>looks like.

>
>You've seen the ground while inside the lavatory of a train.

>
>You have mastered the art of bargaining in shopping.

>
>You have really enjoyed reading this mail.

>
>Peace
>
>"multi traiesc zile, putini traiesc viata" (nicolae iorga)