You arrive one or two hours late to a party - and think its normal.

.All your children have nick names, which sound nowhere close to their real names.

You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house.

Your house is full of medicine from your old country and it's probably all illegal here.

You use grocery bags to hold garbage.

Your dad ever butchered a pig or lamb.

You don't use measuring cups when cooking.

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.

Your 15 year old sister can out-drink any American guy.

You drive a nicer car than your parents.

Your parents have gone on vacation ONCE and it was to your home country.

You base your whole life on the fortune in your coffee cup

Your parents still prefer to buy cassettes instead of CDs.

Your family owns a manual coffee grinder

You take your shoes off when you enter the house, and every family member has his/her own slippers (plus some extra for the guests)

Your neighbor comes over every day uninvited, for coffee

You start your day with a cup of coffee and a cigarette

You have 17 consonants and 2 vowels in your last name

Your mother won't accept the fact that you're not hungry

You have "pita" for dinner at least 4 days a week

You have "sarma" (cabbage rolls) for dinner the remaining 3 days

A loaf of bread is eaten for lunch every day

You're 6 and your father sends you out to buy him cigarettes and beer

You don't speak to your cousins who support "Zeljo"

When your mom insists you eat something with "kasika" at least once a week

You chop up some onions and then decide what to cook for dinner

Your mother insists that "promaha" (too much wind) will kill you

Your mother tells you not to sit on the concrete slabs, or your ovaries are going to freeze

Your mother tells you to wear "potkosulja" (under shirt), no matter what the temperature outside

Your mother tells you not to sit close to TV, and not to use cell phones, because you'll get brain tumor

Your mother tells you that you'll get sick from drinking cold water

You tuck in your "potkosulja" into your underwear because you don't want your kidney to get cold

I'll be back in an hour really means three

Your parents have "goblene" (croche) on their walls, and "heklanje" (more croche) on every piece of their furniture, including the TV

Your parents make "zimnica" (prepare food for winter time) every september

You take a cab to go everywhere

You begin most sentences with "jebi ga" (fuck), "svega mi"(I swear), or "Tita mi"(I swear in TITOS name)

You can't explain what "ba" means, but you use it all the time

You're the only one who gets all the Mujo and Suljo jokes

Your mother bakes a cake without oil, sugar, eggs, or flour, and she calls it "a war cake"

The time is divided into "before" and "after" the war

Your father refers to all politicians with "djubrad" (piece of shit) "lopovi" (Bandits) and "kriminalci" (criminals)

You have at least one best friend from high school who went to "their side" and you still can't explain it to yourself (as in the opposing side)

Your remaining friends from high school live in Australia, Norway, South Africa, and Malaysia

You don't want to talk about the war to anyone, but that's the only thing you talk about with other Bosnians

You have at least three passports, and have lived in at least 4 countries in the last 12 years

:) Taca