You know you're Swedish when...
- You go seriously sentimental when entering an IKEA store, outside the borders of Sweden.
- You secretly love the Eurovision Song Contest to pieces.
- Whenever discussing international problems you always, without exception state that “why don’t you do it like we do it in Sweden?”
- You take your shoes off when entering a house.
- You thought wall-to-wall carpets were a concept of the past or the ferries to Finland/Estonia/Germany/Denmark.
- You have been accused of being from Switzerland. Repeatedly.
- You find it OBVIOUS that a mile is 10 kilometers.
- Every time you see a Swedish brand/actor/company/phone/car/furniture store you feel compelled to point that out to your friends (with badly hidden pride in your voice).
- You in pure disgust try to tell your fellow peers that it’s basic human behavior to shower after PE.
- You brag about the free healthcare and the free school system to every non-Swede that you have a political conversation with.
- Non-Swedes laugh at you for wearing a bicycle helmet and you answer: "At least I won't be the one dying of a skull fracture".
- You find it suprising that you can't swear on TV abroad.
- People are very long instead of being very tall.
- You refer to weeks by their number.
- You refer to your age with the year you were born.
- When someone asks you “Hi, how are you?” you actually take time out to explain how you are.
- You either take it for granted that cars will stop for pedestrians OR you have serious difficulties crossing the street when there is a red light. Even when there are no cars.
- You have a craving for at least one litre of milk a day.
- Non-Swedes say your name in fifty different ways, but no one can get it right.
- You find it adorable when people from other countries get excited about a few milimetres of snow that only stays on the ground for a few hours.
- You have absolutely no idea what is meant by” Swedish massage” that keeps being advertised in spas all over the world.
- You can't understand why people write in pen instead of pencil.
- It's acceptable to eat lunch at 11.00.
- It doesn't feel like lunch unless it's a hot, full course meal.
- You use mmmm as a conversation filler.
- Having to book seat numbers at a cinema makes perfect sense. And you sit in your booked seat even if there are only 2 other people there and your seat is in the front row, on the side.
- You don´t eat the jacket on your potato.
- You would never ever even consider using a metal knife on the butter.
- It's May. It's 15C degrees. And you're stretched out on your balcony in your bikini trying to get a head start on your tan.
- You use the word "or" as a question.
- You get uncomfortable when a stranger starts talking to you on the bus.
- You automatically line up the barcodes on all your groceries at the supermarket checkout.
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» Olivia Ingman
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