You know you have lived in Sweden too long when...

I found this on Facebook. Here are a few that are all-so-true for me:

'You know when you have lived in Sweden too Long, When..'

1.You associate pea soup with Thursday.
All Nations and many restaurants (like the one at school) serve pea soup and pancakes on Thursdays...it's awesome.

2.The first thing you do on entering a bank/post office/pharmacy etc. is look for the queue number machine.
You don't stand in lines here. There are little machines that issue you numbers as you come in.

3.You accept that you will have to queue to take a queue number.
Standing in line to stand in line is awesome right?

4.A sharp intake of breath has become part of your vocabulary, as has the sound 'ahh'.
Making a short gasp is a way that Swedish people say "yes" or just kind of acknowledge that they're listening, same with saying "ahh" a lot. It's funny because the first couple times I heard the little gasps I though my professors had some kind of a breathing problem that must be really prevalent in Sweden

5.You associate Friday afternoon with a trip to system bolaget.
The government owned alcohol monoply

7.Your native language has seriously deteriorated; you begin to "eat medicine" and "hire videos".
So true, I always say I'm going to "make a picture" now. Haha I guess it's difficult for non native speakers to see the difference between make and take...it goes both ways (they also say like..."lets take dinner tonight")

11.Your front door step is beginning to resemble a shoe shop.

12.When a stranger on the street smiles at you, you assume that:
a. he is drunk;
b. he is insane;
c. he is American;
d. he is all of the above.
Hahaha I loved this one because I was definitely the American that smiled at everyone when I first got here. Everybody just keeps to themselves.

21.Your old habit of being "fashionably late" is no longer acceptable. You are always on time.
Learned that within the first couple days since I missed almost every bus I was supposed to take. They are so on time that they are just early now. So frustrating!

23.You know that "religious holiday" means "let's get pissed."
Valborg is a holiday they have at the end of April to celebrate the end of Winter and May 1st is essentially a national hang over day

28.You use mmmm as a conversation filler.
Along with "aahh" and the little gasps

29.An outside temperature of 9 degrees Celsius is warm.
41 degrees F...I love those days

33.You have only two facial expressions, smiling or blank.
It's like botox

34.You think riding a racing bike in the snow is a perfectly sensible thing to do.
Is it not?

40.When you no longer try to just present your VISA card on its own but in tandem with your obligatory ID card.
Can't do anything without my freakin passport

44.When offered a bottle of beer the first thing you look at is the alcoholic percentage.
I didn't even realize I did this until I read this, but I absolutely do. They don't sell alcohol above 3.5% at the grocery store. It's always either 2.8%, 3.5%, 5.2% or occasionally 7.2%. Yup...didn't even realize I did that.

Hope you enjoyed this as much as I did!