How You know you're from Estonia
- You always use of the word "normal" when something is well
- You always take Kalev chocolate with you when visiting friends abroad
- You know that going to the sauna is 80% leisure and 20% washing
- When you were small you thought that the Latvians have six toes
- You spit three times over your left shoulder so that everything would go well
- Words such as "veoauto", "täieõiguslik" or "jäääär" is easy to pronounce for you
- You like brave speeches
- You say, "noh" (sounds like "no") and the word "oota" (which means wait), even when speaking in English that makes people very confused
- Your best friend's girlfriend is your English teacher's daughter and they live next to your grandparents who were your colleagues mentors who are your friends ...
- You would think that less than 20% does not count as alcohol drink
- You always view thermometer before going out
- You are checking both sides of the road before crossing, even if it is one-way traffic
- You're smiling when people ask you about your ethnic food
- If anyone asks you, "Where is Estonia?" you'll quickly answer "In northern Europe, a little south from Finland" --> never heard about Eastern Europe! We are so different from Latvia and Lithuania.
- Your grandma's "handbag" is an old plastic bag that has been used several times
- You would think that sour cream goes with everything
- When some foreigner speaks Estonian with terrible mistakes you constantly tell him that he is still much better compared to most of the Estonian Russians
- You always ignore gendered words in other languages, he-she-it --> who cares?
- Your think that running to a liqueur shop10 minutes before the closing time in Friday evening is a separate sport
- You would think that the blue-black-white combination is a cheerful
- Everyone in your family has pictures of funerals
- You're so proud of Estonia that if a foreigner should say the Estonian population is 1 million, you quickly fix them by saying its actually 1.3 million
- When someone says "ühesonaga" (that means shortly) then it is followed by a long explanation
- It has been weeks since you last saw actual cash money because everything goes by card, or by mobile phone, or ID-card, or by internet banking
- You're assuming that the Internet is widely available in all the other countries
- When one day the summer actually arrives, you're probably working that day
- You know the names of all three black peoples living in Estonia
- You are not impressed of people who speak three different languages
- Your biological clock can understand exactly when 15 minutes of parking in the Old Town is expired
- If going somewhere in a city takes more than 10 minutes, you're seriously upset that it is so far away
- You know how to correctly pronounce "jüriööülestõus"
- Your doctor will tell you to go to solarium because of too light skin
- Buildings that are higher than 20-storeys are sights for you and you also show these to your visitors
- There is an irresistible desire for men to drink beer and women to drink cider and eat barbeque on 23 June
- You're proud that Ernst Hemingway wrote once that in every port in the world you can find at least one Estonian
- Ten months of the year it's too dark to stay up and two months is too white to go to sleep