35 Ways You Know You've Become Swedish

4. You greet everyone in the room by simply saying your name while giving a quick handshake.

 

5. The first thing you do upon entering a bank / post office / drugstore / etc. is to look for the queue number machine.

 

6. You accept that you have to queue to take a queue number.

 

7. The reason you take the ferry to Finland is:

a.

• Duty free vodka

b.

• Duty free beer

c.

To party hearty… No need to get off the boat in helsinki, just turn around and do it again on the way back to Sweden.

 

8. You hear loud-talking passengers on the train. you immediately assume:

a.

• They are drunk

b.

• They are not Swedish

c.

All of the above

 

9. You can barely get in the front door because of all the shoes.

 

10. You own a volvo.

 

11. It no longer seems excessive to spend 1,000kr on alcohol in a single night.

 

12. You have only two facial expressions: smiling or blank.

 

13. You’ve don’t think it’s weird for a couple to be engaged for four years and have no plans to get married.

 

14. You assume that anyone who apologizes after bumping into you is a tourist.

 

15. You get into a Mercedes taxi cab and think nothing of it.

 

16. You think it is normal EVERYTHING is regulated and you obey the rules voluntarily.

 

17. Hearing the words “f*ck” on daytime TV or the radio seems perfectly normal.

 

18. You know that pigs say “nöff nöff”, frogs say “kvack, kvack”, and roosters say “kuckeliku”.

 

19. you know that “extrapris” goods are cheaper, even though your English mind translates the word as “extra price”.

 

20. You think horse meat is a totally acceptable sandwich topping.

 

21. You are no longer offended by the fact that you are a Swedish size XL when at “home” you are a medium.

 

22. You say “I’m almost annoyed” when you’re as furious as humanly possible.

 

23. A 25 % sales tax on just about everything is no big deal.

 

24. “VD” is the boss, not something you need to get medical treatment for.

 

25. You can use “bra”, “fart”, and “slut” in the same sentence without giggling.

 

26. You refer to weeks by their number.

 

27. It is your birthday and you accept that YOU have to plan the entertainment, make the food and the cake.

 

28. You are no longer surprised when you see full-frontal male nudity in a commercial or on TV.

 

29. You think an hour and a half cycle on your washing machine is a “quick wash”.

 

30. Your shed becomes the first stage in the recycling process and you can’t get in it for bags of paper / cardboard / bottles, refundable glass / plastic, recyclable glass / plastic / containers / etc.

 

31. A sharp intake of breath has become part of your vocabulary, as has the sound ‘ahh’.

 

32. You associate Friday afternoon with a trip to systembolaget.

 

33. Your native language has seriously deteriorated; you begin to “eat medicine” and “hire videos”.

 

34. You use “mmmm” as a conversation filler.

 

35. You eat your pancakes and waffles with jam instead of syrup.