You know you are in Cyprus when...

Stolen from around the internet, I found the most interesting, true and funny ones. Enjoy. (in brackets my comments).

You know you are in Cyprus when:

• A mercedes is not a personal car, it's a Taxi (so true a few years back).
• Talking sounds just like arguing.
• Not smoking is considered 'weird' (another one of Cypriots bad habits)
• Everybody has an opinion about everything
• Not eating meat is unthinkable (UNTHINKABLE)
• You take a generator when camping (to supply your fridge, micro, TV!)
• Police park on the sidewalk to give you a ticket for parking on the sidewalk..
• The translation of 'thank you' is......... "thank you".
• The translation of 'sorry' is......."sorry
• Your next door neighbour cooks "souvla" all 52 Sundays of the year.
• You call everyone "koumbare"('best man') malaka (asshole)
• we are facing a drought problem but people insist on washing their cars and the road in front of their house (and if you tell them something be prepared to hear everything about your family)
• everybody thinks they are the best driver in the world..and everybody else is the worst.
• drunk people insist "I can drive..I am fine"
• people who drive $100,000 cars are not willing to give $2 to park their car in a parking lot, leave them on the sidewalk with the risk of being hit and go pay $8 for a frappe (coffee).
• people are not willing to walk. They have to park right outside of their destination (it does not matter if that means leaving the car in the middle of the street..as long as you put the parking lights on, you are OK).
• you see women talking on their cellphone having it on speakerphone while driving using their one hand, because speaking on the phone while driving is prohibited
• the no-smoking sign in cafes is just indicative. For the majority it means "who cares, I will smoke"
• if you are a beautiful foreing blonde girl you are automatically associated with girls working at cabarets
• grandmas and old ladies consider it weird and rude that you haven't eaten all your food..(that is the 8 different plates that can feed about 5 people).
• when people eat karpouzi (watermelon) with halloumi every night for dinner in the summer.

Disclaimer: This post is supposed to be funny, and many of the above instances are things that we have learned to live with. Cyprus has its many advantages too, like the good weather, the nice beaches, the (usually) hospitable and friendly people.