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You Know You Are in Germany When……………………..

Living in Germany was an unbelievable experience! It seems to me, a much different experience then tourist travel in Germany.

You see things as they really are rather than being so much in awe. There is NO country in the world like the USA.
This experience makes you very proud to be American and appreciative of our life, FREEDOM, security and conveniences.

………When you pay for parking by buying a ticket in a machine then placing the ticket in your car window

………When find out the parking permit allows you park legally the next morning because you paid too much tonight
………When you pay a deposit on every bottle glass or plastic at 7 elevens! (which there are none)

………When women’s haircuts look like men’s

………When you follow a tractor for 5 miles going 30 MPH because you aren’t allowed to pass

………When you get NO refills on Coffee, Ice Tea or Water….You get only what you pay for each time

………When the girls use bright red dye streaked in their hair instead of Blonde like in the USA

………When EVERY Semi Truck, Trailer, Barge, and Train car is completely covered so no debris flies out

………When giant windmills are making electricity instead of nuclear power plants

………When you wake up in the morning to find your spark plug wires eaten by a mortar!!($300 to replace)

………When there is no decaffeinated anything to drink

………When the only choice in soda is coke, coke light, Sprite and Fanta orange!

………When you stand at the corner to cross a street and the cars stop to let you cross!
………When you pay to get your shopping cart.

………When you are in church and EVERYONE is singing loud.

………When the cats are fat because they live outside eating the field mice

………When a warm day is 50 degrees!

………When you pay to go to the toilet or Water closet

………When a salad is green beans, sauerkraut, shredded carrots, lettuce topped with yogurt dressing

………When the liquors ( Baileys etc.) are cheaper than a coke or a beer

………When you have to ask and pa extra for bread or rolls at a meal

………When every “Italian” restaurant in Germany tastes like Chef Boy ‘r Dee!

….…..You are going 90 MPH on the autobahn and someone passes you going 120 mph.

….......When the kids are drinking legally at 16 and driving at 18!

……...When EVERYONE is smoking.

……...When someone is drinking beer at 9AM in the morning.

……...When you go to a restaurant and pay $4.00 for a coke & $3.00 for a beer

……...When you hear church bells ringing for 15 minutes at 6AM calling the farmers to work, 12 noon calling them to lunch
again for 15 minutes at 6PM telling the farmers supper is ready.

………When the men wear peddle pusher pants.

………When their wedding rings are on the right hand instead of the left.

………When you put out your trash at 6AM and come back at 6PM and it is in the exact same spot, empty, with the lid on.

………When there is no road rage, no fingers displayed and no horns blowing at all!

………When everyone looks like they got their clothes at the dollar store.

………When you pay twice as much as in the USA for something in the store especially plastics, chemicals, & paints.

………When you receive a ticket in the mail a month after the infraction because they took a picture of your car in violation.

………When someone says “hallo” but does not look at you when doing so.

………When the porn magazines are next to the comics at the newsstand.

………When you can only get bread and rolls or lunchmeat for breakfast no eggs or bacon.

………When you get dinner or lunch and no bread is served.

………When someone is standing next to you is two inches away.

………When they sell beer at McDonalds.

………When EVERY town and village has a church with bells ringing on the hour and half hour.

………When you pay 16% sales tax on EVERYTHING.

………When there are no screens or fans in the house.

………When every store, bakery or restaurant has flies and wasps flying around.

………When there are 8 recycling cans for paper-plastic-wax cartons-bottles-cans-plastic soft, plastic hard,& cardboard.

Oh I forgot refuse or garbage.

………When EVERYONE sings at Mass very loud without practicing beforehand.

………When everyone is either walking or biking at night or on the weekends.

………When Sundays all the stores except cafes and Ice Cream stores are closed.

………When NO ONE does any work around the house or lawn mowing, or gardening on Sundays.

………When the women all wear their hair like men or their hair is dyed deep red.

………When you have to pay for a shopping cart or to go to the bathroom.

………When you seat yourself in a restaurant or have to ask for your check to go home.

………When you pay a monthly telephone fee AND for every call by distance and time spent on the call.

………When your freezer is the size of a case of coke and your fridge is as tall as your 12 year old

………When gas is $5.00 a gallon.

………When your car insurance is twice what it cost in the states.

………When your house has no screens!!! Or ceiling fans!

………When all the women go to the market every day and use a basket to bring home their groceries.

………When you see NO SUV’s on the road.

………When some of the cars are as big as your kids’ battery operated play car.

………When the tip is INCLUDED in the price on the menu!

………When every town or village has a soccer field for the men not the kids.

………When schools all get out for summer vacation at different times during the summer.

………When you walk into a restaurant and someone brings in their dog to eat with them.

………When you go on an escalator in the store and you can bring your shopping cart with you because it has no stairs!

………When cars and pedestrians are in the same street at the same time in downtown city centers.

………When the girl on the corner looks like a hooker…she is!..... its legal here

……....When there are flies and wasps on the bread and pastries at the bakery and the meat at the butcher.

………When the coasters for your beer are to keep the flies out

………When you are a pedestrian crossing and the cars stop to let you walk across

………When every business must close one day a week by law

………When you go to the hotel and its not the kids making noise but the dogs

………When every town has at least one fest a year to celebrate.

………When along the sides of the road are little statues and memorials to the Lord

………When almost every church you walk into was built in the 1700s or earlier and not knocked down

………When the entire road is not repaved but just the part that is damaged is repaved

………When you enter the store with a customer in front of you and wait 20 minutes till he owner is done with him

………When the glasses of beer are labeled according to the brand and the kind of beer

………When each bar only sells one or two labels of beer not 10 or 20