You know you’ve been living in London too long when…
- You don't even bother looking out of the window when you get up in the morning to check what the day is like. You know it is overcast.
- You believe that Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday are all good nights for drinking. Sunday day is also entirely reasonable.
- You can't remember what 'customer service' means.
- After a big night out you find yourself looking for a Curry house and not a 24 hour McDonalds.
- You start to accept queuing as a way of life.
- More than three hours sunlight on summer days seems excessive.
- You always call soccer 'football' ...and you have a team...and it's not Manchester United.
- You don't think twice about buying a packaged sandwich.
- A sunny lunchtime means searching for a patch of grass and stripping off practically down to your underwear.
- You expect men to actually cut, comb and style their hair (using hair products). And to wear decent clothes. Jeans and a t-shirt are no longer socially acceptable.
- You think 40 quid for a haircut is quite reasonable.
- You finish every sentence with "Cheers" or "In'it", and start every conversation with Hiya.
- You only just realise you have lost your sunglasses - you left them in Greece 2 summers ago.
- You start thinking English cuisine isn't all that bad after all, I mean, it's hard to beat a full English breakfast.
- You are on to your 6th umbrella and your second overcoat.
- You buy a disposable baby BBQ from Argos.
- You realise your sunscreen is the stuff you originally brought from home with you.
- A day at the beach means wearing the warmest clothes you own while standing on golf ball-size pebbles and the thought of swimming doesn't even enter your head.
- You actually say, "Sor'ed" or "it's all gone a bit pear shaped".
- Wearing a suit in a pub is relatively normal attire.
- You have given up complaining about the Victorian-like banking services offered in the UK.
- You have given up explaining why you are half an hour late to work as no-one notices or even cares. In fact - you may even join the one hour gossip session around the coffee machine before booting up your computer.
- Coming to work with a hangover is entirely accepted and indeed expected at least once a week.
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2 Comments
hannah
Big LOL! Makes me look forward to living in London :D
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11 May 2009
Firefly07:25 pm
LOL!!!