All of us, citizens of post-Soviet countries, have habits, family traditions that will seem strange to an ordinary foreigner. Well, let. But for us all this is so close and dear.
Even somehow it becomes difficult from the mere thought that if you suddenly have to give it up ...
1. The first thing you need to do when you get home is to take off your shoes, and not walk around in the apartment, as they do in the West.
2. This action will necessarily be followed by putting on cozy slippers.
And on the shoe shelf flaunts with a dozen pairs of shoes in case the guests come to you.
3. If you miss the second paragraph, either you risk getting a reprimand from your mother, or you'll catch cold, since not every floor has underfloor heating.
4. In general, if you get sick, you know, the main reason is - once you forgot to put on slippers and walked around the house barefoot.
5. You do not admit to yourself, but you are a superstitious person.
Do not believe me? And how, then, is it not a rule to whistle in the house, to sit down on the walkway or not to take out the garbage after sunset?
6. When you studied at school, you voluntarily and compulsorily participated in all kinds of school activities: KVN, quizzes, "What? Where? When? "And stuff.
Classroom leader necessarily saw in you a talented athlete, a great writer or both, both in one person.
7. And you also hated the sign "Duty desk".
Yeah, who likes to stay after classes and dress up in elegant clothes all class?
8. For the New Year, a mandatory dish on the table is sandwiches with red caviar.
True, foreigners think that we eat it with spoons.
9. Every girl in elementary school must wear such a huge bow.
Of course, maybe it's beautiful, but those who sit behind her do not see anything that is written on the board.
10. It is simply vital to write with a calligraphic handwriting.
It does not matter that our style develops with age. The main thing is that the prescriptions are beautifully filled.
11. Birthday is not only a lot of gifts and a delicious cake, but still long phone greetings from all relatives.
The most interesting is that within 10 minutes all these wishes are read from postcards or special books bought, for example, in some Book Club.
12. In the refrigerator there is always a huge saucepan of rich borscht.
13. A month before the New Year, a huge bag of sweets appears in the sideboard.
On holidays, the table is covered with a smart tablecloth, specially concealed for such special occasions.
In many families it is passed on from generation to generation.
15. Once a year you finally get out of the sideboard crystal glasses.
Many even forgot why it was once bought.
16. All day you spend at the preparation of hearty salads.
To be honest, it's time for us to reconsider our views on their presentation. These are the leaves of parsley or lettuce long ago it is time to leave in the past. Still stop pouring dishes unsuitable shop mayonnaise.
17. Before the hostess could sit down at the table, as one of the guests had already managed to hide sandwiches with red caviar for both cheeks.
Yes, everyone has such a relative.
18. Another equally important dish on the festive table is dumplings or vareniki with potatoes, filled with homemade sour cream.
And they are always so long that you start forgetting what you are talking about at all.
20. When all the guests have drunk enough glasses of champagne, they all go to dance under the incendiary songs of Verka Serduchka.
21. Even in such moments you have an acoustic guitar in your house.
It does not matter that you do not know how to play it.
22. Each New Year's Eve is accompanied by watching festive concerts.
True, every day on the screens the same faces flit.
23. But it's best to watch not boring concerts, but your favorite Soviet cartoons.
24. In any incomprehensible situation, your mother advises you to drink valerian.
The main thing is not to give it to your cat.
25. Probably all the cabinets in the apartment are filled with books that no one has read for a long time.
26. Somehow it so happened that your family has the most engineers.
Do you have a technical profession? Chances are great that you are an engineer. Programmer? Engineer. Builder? Engineer. Designer? Engineer.