Even though I don’t speak European, I think I’m kind of like
one. Here are the reasons in no particular order:
- I have a small refrigerator and no ice maker.
- My TV is 11 by 13 (inches not feet). Or maybe I should say centimeters not meters but I’m not sure how big those are.
- I like things that are old and dusty. By this I mean every thing I own.
- My car is a Toyota, which I'm pretty sure is a European brand.
- I live in a flat or maybe a pied a terre.
- I go to the market at least once a day.
- I listen to Edith Piaf on Pandora. And Andrea Bocelli. Even when they sing in European.
- I have a very, very small bathroom.
- I like Mexican food. Mexico is like Europe.
- I like Italian food. Italy is like Europe.
- I like cheese.
- I live with a cat. (The only reason I put that in is because she made me).
- I consider myself to be a great, although yet undiscovered, artist.
- I like eating outside as long as it’s not too hot or cold or there aren’t too many gnats. Or homeless people.
- I don’t really need an oven. I can do all my cooking on one burner. And a microwave.
- I like chocolate, mainly Hershey Bars. Not that dark crap.
- I don’t wash my clothes all that often.
- Some people seem to think I have socialist leanings.
- Deodorant? What deodorant?
- I like to watch people dance the tango, which started in Argentina, a place I'm pretty sure is in Europe.
- I think siestas are a very good idea.
- When I stop by Panera Bread to pick up my salad, I always ask for the baguette instead of the chips.
- I seem to have a lot of empty wine bottles.
The good thing about kind of being like a European is that you get all of the advantages I've listed above, but you don't have to bother with a passport or put up with those tiny elevators they call lifts or people unwilling to learn to speak American.
19 comments:
Ahahahahaha! Oh, how I miss your sense of humor!
Old World lifestyle has its rewards wherever we live. Europeans treasure anything old. Like me. But there is nothing like fresh dark chocolate!
Love it!
i don't know, Marcia. You sound pretty darn American to me--except for the ice maker thing. Laugh on.
I wanted to make some witty comment but I have been embarrassing my husband with my unrefined laughter ever since the Toyota, and by the time I got to Mexico he told me to stop laughing. I didn't; I couldn't; and then the tango and Argentina did me in. I am grinning like an idiot and erupting in occasional giggles.
I'm in Tucson, and it snowed this week. I needed a belly laugh. Thank you!
You are cute, tho a bit geographically challenged. LOL
But do you shave your underarms?
:)
Thanks to all of you. Your comments make me so happy. Jean, I'm so old I don't even need to shave under my arms any more.
I LOVE the way you think! Must have ice, though. :)
I have a few of your ways -- I would not call myself European though. American Bohemian would probably describe my type of living. -- barbara
True Europeans never close the bathroom window whatever the weather; the ladies never shave their legs.
You are funny. You know I am from Paris, France – don’t know whether that is in Europe – I have been in Georgia so long now that I have forgotten my geography…. I am pleased that there are kind of Europeans like you to tell me what I should really be like! I know – you are teasing – but the stereotypes you wrote are believed by many Americans.
My turn - now I know I am not kind of American because I like to read books, I can speak 3 languages fluently and 2 more passably but I don’t speak American, I don’t eat only fast-food or frozen food, I can drive a manual 5-speed car, I am not loud in public and rude to foreigners or a racist, I am not greedy, I am interested in other cultures and not overly religious. I am not self-righteous and extremely conservative and patriotic. I guess I cannot be an American yet, don’t you think?
Vagabonde, You are correct. I was making fun of Americans and how some of us look at everyone else. You did a great job of turning it around to show us what others think about us.
Marcia dear, and there was I thinking Americans don’t do irony. Actually, I thought Americans don’t even get irony.
Just looked over your blog and noticed the mention that your daddy just had his 100th birthday!!!! I don't know him but I sure can wish him Happy birthday from me. Terrific to know that you have had all these years with him. -- barbara
Marcia,
Better watch it, the Eurocops will be after you. They are rounding up all the usual socialist suspects.
I will be next. Only this morning I wondered why I stopped bathing once a week to bathe every day. Of course, I stopped that silliness when i retired, and you should see our water bill now. Dianne
OMELG... You are so full of it!!! Thanks for the laugh!
Hershey's gave you away, impossible for a true European to go for that. Thanks for the laugh.
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