Guide part 2

16) Greeks dont like getting plastered, (unless they are young or alcoholics)they dont see the point in it.Getting a girl plastered, yes, there is a benefit.Drinkind a drink after work to get the edge off, at home is still -thank God- an unknown habit.


17)We are just discovering Halloween. We put masks all year long and especially for three weeks in March. An then we pay a flat bread twice the price of the normal bread.We dont have a santa clause coming rhe night befor christmas, but a saint Basil that comes the 1st of January.
We play cards all night, that night.
We used to put lights on a model boat before we adopted the Christmas tree. Easter is a time when we eat Lamb, lamb intestines and heads, to celebrate the end of the fasting. The greek fasting is to eat all kinds of breads, and junk, but no meat,no oil, no animal produce.
We kiss our priests hands.We do our cross when passing outside a church.


18)Namedays are more important than birthdays and you go to peoples houses unannounced, the house is open for the day.When you do have a birthday, you add a year.
For instance, if you were born in 1980, January...this January you wont be 26 but 27.Cause once you had one day into your 27th year...you re there!


19)We love our kids so much we never teach them to be independent. We shove food down their throats to keep them chubby like babies, and we never cut the ombilical cord.


20)We are not allowed to baptise our kids other names than the christian ones(orthodox), if we are not married we are not allowed to baptise them...if we die an are not baptised, the priest refuses to read a prayer, Ive been told.Also, we are not allowed to be cremated(although I heard theres a change). If you have to bury a parent in Athens, you have to be there 3 years later when they open the grave, and collect the bones of your loved one(hoping the worms did their job),joggle with bureaucracy...because the cemeteries are full.Lovely.

21) we dont believe in breastfeeding, we deliver in general through C-section but than again we give potato chips and chocolate as snacks because " its good for you"


22)we are always in court.
If you call someone a name, he can sue you. The law still exists, although everybody curses.


23)We dont like it if our wife had other lovers before us. We dont talk about it, we dont dwell on it.(we never forgive it either)

24) Pizza hut and Fridays, and Applebees are expensive.
Our coffe costs as much as a coffe in Manhattan.
We call the turkish coffee, greek coffee.
We have a thing with names, specially with Geography and when it comes to history, we are obsessed.We do have a selective memory...

25) We have balconies and terasses, to our appartments.

26)There are more cars in Athens than ants on a honey jar cup.

27)In winter it rains ALL the time.

28)There are a lot of motorbikes around

29)Theres a lot of drugs too

30) we love to stay in the sun and have coffee (shaked) called Frappe(shaked in French-although we dont like French people) when the weather allows it.In cafetertias.We jist discoverd Frapuccinos and espressos etc. We love to play bagghamon at the beach with beers.We would love to nap in the afternoon.We eat late, we sleep late, our kids as well.

31)If our 13 year old son bangs a girl, we dont freak out, we are proud. If its our daughter we go to jail for murder.


32)Kids go to school, than get tutors and work the whole afternoon to get the job done, since teachers in school were probably too bored or tired to explain it right in the first place.


33)You have to study religion in school and participate in the morning when a prayer is said.


34)everybody smokes, and if you dont, tough.
Even if you re pregnant, or with a baby, the taxi driver will light one up.Its his taxi and you should be gratefull he stopped.You and the other 3,49575638 passengers next to you.If its the summer and you call a cab company, you will probably get charged 3 euro for the use of A/C in the cab.

35) Dont expect change of 1 cent, 2 cents, 5 cents at the supermarkets.


36) we dont know how to use a bidet.


37) internet is for the 80% a place to find someone to have sex.The rest is business, entertainment, communicating etc...


38) everybody in Greece is a singer, or a politician by nature, that didnt get a break.


39) actors think they are something special because they read a lot and presume they are cultivated.Snobbish as hell(not all, ok)


40) everybody assumes his or her oppinion is a revelation to others/important/the one that holds the pure truth. Everybody is a critic and they forget, that opinions are like azzholes...everybody s got one.




(if I get/think/hear more, Ill be back)