YOU KNOW YOU'RE ROMANIAN WHEN...
Everything you eat is savored in garlic and onions.
You try and reuse gift wrappers, gift boxes, and of course aluminum foil.
You are standing next to the two largest suitcases at the airport.
You arrive one or two hours late to a party - and think its normal.
You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house.
You have or had rugs on your walls.
Your parents tell you not to care what your friends think but they won't let you do certain things because of what other 'frati' and 'surori' will think.
Your house is full of Romanian medicine that is probably illegal here.
Your mom recycles plastic cups and paper plates, and sandwich bags by washing them.
You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
Your dad ever butchered a pig or lamb.
You keep leftover food in your fridge in as many numbers of bowls as possible.
Your kitchen shelf is full of jam jars, varieties of bowls and plastic utensils (Got free with some household items).
A new tax being passed by the government is simply a cover up because the end of the world is really coming.
You don't use measuring cups when cooking.
You feel like you've gotten a good deal if you didn't pay tax.
You can only travel if there are 5 persons at least to see you off or receive you whether you are traveling by bus, train or plane.
If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they ask if you've eaten, even if it's midnight.
When your parents meet strangers and talk for a few minutes, you discover you're talking to a distant cousin.
Your parents don't realize phone connections to foreign countries have improved in the last two decades, and still scream at the top of their lungs when making foreign calls.
It's "normal" if your wedding has 600 people.
You dont know half the people at your wedding cuz your parents invited them.
You walk out of the grocery store with no less than two packed shopping carts weekly.
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