Found this on facebook. Scary how many apply to me. Its funny because it's true though!
the list...
European license place in the front (most likely with your name written on it)
2. You have relatives who aren't really your relatives
3. You sing the same song - "100 lat" - on every occasion weddings, birthdays, baby showers)
4. You watch soccer [well when I'm in Poland at some point I do]
5. You know very well Pope John Paul II was Polish and his name was Karol, not Carol
6. You go to Midnight Mass every Christmas Eve and keep your Christmastree up till February.
7. You drink your wodka straight
8. You open your presents on Christmas Eve.
9. You don't feel the need to add an "s" to Pierogi because you already know the word is plural and it annoys you when others do. However, you still add 'y' to already plural english words... "chipsy", "dzinsy"
10. You are convinced your pets only understand Polish
11. You are forced to listen to Disco Polo by your parents
12. You can spot Polish people like Asians can spot each other
13. When others find out you're Polish, they tell you about every Polish person they've ever known, which is most likely followed by them mispronouncing common phrases such as "czesc" or "dziekuje"
14. Your name always gets slaughtered on the first day of school
15. The thought of eating cow stomach (flaki) doesn't gross you out
16. When you're at a stranger's house, you expect their garbage can to be under the sink
17. Every window in your house must have "firanki", even in the bathroom
18. Once in a while, you do a big "przemeblowanie" at home ["once in a while" is a lie]
19. You always take off your shoes as soon as you step into someone else's house
20. You celebrate your birthday AND your nameday, "imieniny"
21. You were extremely surprised to learn that American weddings last hours, not days
22. your grandmother insists that you wear kapcie in the summer
23. you write sms messages like crazy.
24. You know Chopin was born in Poland and not in France
25. You were speaking Polish before you were English
26.You never ate meat on Christmas Eve or Good Friday
27. At every party that you attend ppl tell dowcipy and there is a disscusion about politics
28. You watched Bolek i Lolek before bed time
29. You park your car on the side walk
30. You know how to "kombinowac"
31. you or someone you know wears bursztyn
32. when your parents have no idea how to use a computer except for solitaire.
33. Your grandmotherhas a picture framed of Pope John Paul II, right beside your school photo.
34. when your family considers mushroom picking as 'having a good time"
35. when your mom tells you to wear papcie/kapcie because the floor is cold and you'll get a cold...even if its the middle of summer!
36.You know you're Polish when you have paper towels in the house but they're just for show, because everyone knows you're supposed to use a szmatka.
37.You know you're Polish when your mom looks through your school phonebook and points to a name and says "Popacztysie...Polak!"
38.You thought that your Uncle's name was 'Szwagier' until you turned 12.
39. when you were sick as a child you were stuffed with czosnekuntil youfelt like you were gonna vomit
40 when something breaks easily, is of crappy quality or is an ugly looking bike... you call it Ukranian
41. All your friends wished they were polish because of smigus dingus
42.Your were beaten at least once with a wooden spoon, belt, broom, or all of the above.
43.You couldn't say a bad word, even stupid, around your mother without getting smacked.
44.You have at least one relative who plays the accordion.
45. if you fail a blood/ drug test because you've eaten so much poppyseed cake some time before it
46. Sometime in your life when you were sick you had one of these 2 remedies: hot milk with butter and garlic (mleko z czostkem) or syrop z czebulie (onions with sugar)
47. your dad doesn't care what you do or what time you're home, as long as your mom said it was okay. if your dad calls you and proceeds to yell at you to come home, you only need to say "ale mama wie gdzie jestem i powiedziala ze moge zostac jeszcze dwie godziny..." and he promptly replies "oh. okay. have fun then," and hangs up.
48. there is a book by sienkiewicz on display in your house, but no one has ever read it.
49. When you, or your family/Polish friends talk in English, you occasionally slip in Polish words, and it's ok because you all know what eachother are saying.
50. You might know ur polish when you get stopped by police and instead of him handing you the ticket, you hand him money.
51. If your born in Canada, you are regarded as the inferior genetic counterpart to the purebred pole.
52.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 "MAMO!? HALO?!? KTO TAM?"
53.Your dad ever butchered a pig or lamb.
54. you are surprised to find that the toilets in the pub/restaurant/shop are free of charge
55. You have kielbasa hanging somewhere in your kitchen.
56. If your family had at least three working Fiat Maluchy sitting in their front yard...one of which, at any given, time usually had 5 or more people stuffed into it.
57. when you're obsessed with cleaning, you clean your cleaning
58. go to saturday morning polish school! xD
59. You know your Polish when you have those brown/clear-ish cups.
60. you wear socks with sandals
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