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You know you are from Sweden when..
(IKEA)
1. You trust IKEA more than your government.
2. IKEA is home away from home.
3. You grew up in a house looking exactly as if it would have been in the IKEA-catalogue.
4.You fear beyond death not getting the IKEA catalogue if you put up asign for the postman saying that you don’t want any adverts.
5. You know the names of a multitude of IKEA items.
6. You know how to pronounce these names and sigh when Non-Swedes don't.
7.You live abroad and virtually all your furniture is from IKEA even ifthere are still no IKEA stores in the country. (note the word“still” asin you are expecting IKEA to one day be found in every single country)
8.You rarely visited IKEA when you lived back in Sweden but once you areabroad you think visiting IKEA is a small trip back home, that makesyour eyes damp and feel even more home sick than before.
9. Going to IKEA abroad, you end up loitering in the Swedish Food Market, buying more food than furniture.
10.While on one hand you praise the Swedish Food Market, you feel betrayedsince the “Svenska bullar" they sell are clearly not anything like whatyou had back home.
11. In addition, you just have to stop andexplain to the locals in the Swedish Food Market what they are buyingand exactly how delicious it is.
12. When living outside the borders of Sweden you panic when IKEA has sold out of “julmust” before Christmas.
(Shopping)
1.You find it normal to have to go to a special store that is owned bythe government, that's only open during daytime to buy a bottle ofwine, or other alcoholic beverages.
2. You feel uncomfortable whenthe cashier asks you "how are you today", because you assume she reallywants to know and expects a thorough answer - isn´t she being a littlebit too private?
3. You don’t mind the sales assistants chatting away (though you're in a hurry) because you don't want to offend them.
4. You're buying clothes you ask the cashier if you can keep the coat hanger.
5. You line all the shopping up with the barcode towards you to help the cashier.
6.When, while entering a supermarket in another country, find that youcan buy alcohol…and you get the same look in your eyes like a child onChristmas.
7. You get a nervous breakdown if the person in front of,or, behind you at ICA doesn't use the next customer stick on thegrocery belt.
8. You have to go to a supermarket to post your letter.
9. You're about to pay in any shop and wonder where you get your ticket to stand in the queue
10. You get annoyed when shopping for food abroad and keep looking for price per kilo/piece etc. without ever finding them.
11.You feel uncomfortable with the cashier packing your bags for you, andsecretly you consider this to be very inefficient since he/she shouldconcentrate on helping the next customer.
12. You consider some plastic bags being too nice to use for rubbish.
13. You go to Germany to buy loads and loads of Swedish beer.
14.On your annual trip to the Mediterranean you automatically answer thesales person who asks you where you're from with "no thank you".
15.You prefer to buy food at ICA instead of Netto or Lidl, just because ofprinciples and the fact that it looks neater at ICA. No matter howexpensive it is.
16. You love ICA Maxi, and sometimes hum theadvertisement-song heard randomly since you believe that the ICA-cardis best invention ever.
17. You don't feel ashamed jumping from last place to first in the queue at ICA when someone opens a new cash till.
18. Sizes 6, 8, 10, 12 etc. really confuses you.
19.It's completely normal for you that all newspapers are stapled togetherand you can't handle non-Swedish newspapers, that are not.
20. You get angry because you have to order "Coffee Americano" to get normal coffee.
21.You get a strange a strange feeling when walking around at“Systembolaget”, like someone is watching your every move and what youbuy (and of course, you note what everyone else has in their baskets).
22. You actually count your items before going to the max. 10 items cashier.
23.You can't use the plastic bag you got from “Systembolaget” for anythingelse after bringing your alcohol home. Especially NOT letting your kidsbring their PE clothes to school in it!
24. You're a bit embarrassed for going to “Systembolaget” and especially walking out of it with your bag full.
1. You trust IKEA more than your government.
2. IKEA is home away from home.
3. You grew up in a house looking exactly as if it would have been in the IKEA-catalogue.
4.You fear beyond death not getting the IKEA catalogue if you put up asign for the postman saying that you don’t want any adverts.
5. You know the names of a multitude of IKEA items.
6. You know how to pronounce these names and sigh when Non-Swedes don't.
7.You live abroad and virtually all your furniture is from IKEA even ifthere are still no IKEA stores in the country. (note the word“still” asin you are expecting IKEA to one day be found in every single country)
8.You rarely visited IKEA when you lived back in Sweden but once you areabroad you think visiting IKEA is a small trip back home, that makesyour eyes damp and feel even more home sick than before.
9. Going to IKEA abroad, you end up loitering in the Swedish Food Market, buying more food than furniture.
10.While on one hand you praise the Swedish Food Market, you feel betrayedsince the “Svenska bullar" they sell are clearly not anything like whatyou had back home.
11. In addition, you just have to stop andexplain to the locals in the Swedish Food Market what they are buyingand exactly how delicious it is.
12. When living outside the borders of Sweden you panic when IKEA has sold out of “julmust” before Christmas.
(Shopping)
1.You find it normal to have to go to a special store that is owned bythe government, that's only open during daytime to buy a bottle ofwine, or other alcoholic beverages.
2. You feel uncomfortable whenthe cashier asks you "how are you today", because you assume she reallywants to know and expects a thorough answer - isn´t she being a littlebit too private?
3. You don’t mind the sales assistants chatting away (though you're in a hurry) because you don't want to offend them.
4. You're buying clothes you ask the cashier if you can keep the coat hanger.
5. You line all the shopping up with the barcode towards you to help the cashier.
6.When, while entering a supermarket in another country, find that youcan buy alcohol…and you get the same look in your eyes like a child onChristmas.
7. You get a nervous breakdown if the person in front of,or, behind you at ICA doesn't use the next customer stick on thegrocery belt.
8. You have to go to a supermarket to post your letter.
9. You're about to pay in any shop and wonder where you get your ticket to stand in the queue
10. You get annoyed when shopping for food abroad and keep looking for price per kilo/piece etc. without ever finding them.
11.You feel uncomfortable with the cashier packing your bags for you, andsecretly you consider this to be very inefficient since he/she shouldconcentrate on helping the next customer.
12. You consider some plastic bags being too nice to use for rubbish.
13. You go to Germany to buy loads and loads of Swedish beer.
14.On your annual trip to the Mediterranean you automatically answer thesales person who asks you where you're from with "no thank you".
15.You prefer to buy food at ICA instead of Netto or Lidl, just because ofprinciples and the fact that it looks neater at ICA. No matter howexpensive it is.
16. You love ICA Maxi, and sometimes hum theadvertisement-song heard randomly since you believe that the ICA-cardis best invention ever.
17. You don't feel ashamed jumping from last place to first in the queue at ICA when someone opens a new cash till.
18. Sizes 6, 8, 10, 12 etc. really confuses you.
19.It's completely normal for you that all newspapers are stapled togetherand you can't handle non-Swedish newspapers, that are not.
20. You get angry because you have to order "Coffee Americano" to get normal coffee.
21.You get a strange a strange feeling when walking around at“Systembolaget”, like someone is watching your every move and what youbuy (and of course, you note what everyone else has in their baskets).
22. You actually count your items before going to the max. 10 items cashier.
23.You can't use the plastic bag you got from “Systembolaget” for anythingelse after bringing your alcohol home. Especially NOT letting your kidsbring their PE clothes to school in it!
24. You're a bit embarrassed for going to “Systembolaget” and especially walking out of it with your bag full.
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