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You know you're Haitian When... Your parents still put you "a genou" even though you are 19.You use bed sheets as window curtains.............You've eaten rice within the past 3 days. ..........You eat too much chicken, diri kole, or diri a djon djon.......Your living room couches are covered with plastic........You try to bargain your way out of everything and anywhere even in department stores...........You have a bunch of expensive perfumes on your dresser but prefer to use the cheaper ones because you don't want to waste your good stuff.........You point at things and people with your lips............There are entire rooms in your house that no one is allowed to go in because they are reserved for company.........You have three sets of china: odd, even, and miss-matched............You prefer juice in the form of concentrated syrup..........When you really get mad at someone you want to take off your shoe and slap him or her with it.........You prefer salt and pepper in your peanut butter rather than sugar. ...........Saturday is "soup day" at your house...........Yawning more often indicates hunger than fatigue.........All soda is called "cola" and all chewing gum is called "Chicklets"...............Maggi, Matouk's/Tabasco, & tomato paste are cooking essentials.................You refuse to throw out old grease. So that everything you fry has that taste of fried fish, chicken, bannan pese, or griot...........The US is only made up of three cities: Miami, NY, and Boston............Deep fried pork (griot) is one of your favorite dishes............You have either Jean or Marie placed somewhere in your name and you know someone named Roro, Fanfan, Pouchon or Marie Rose..................Your furniture is too big for your house...............You dip bread in your coffee, hot chocolate, and even certain kinds of liquor (Kremas)...............You go to work as though you were dressed for church, you go to church as if you were dressed for a wedding, and you go to a wedding as if you were dressed to meet Queen Elizabeth..............When you hear "pssssssssst", you know that someone is trying to get your attention............You nod your head upward to greet someone when you're too busy to talk..............If someone says that the party starts at 8pm, then you know not to show up until 11PM!!!!!
