HAHA VAR TVUNGEN
You know you're habesha when:
You have at least one extended family member living in your house.
Your parents talk REALLY loud into the phone
You make eye contact and nod your head if you see another habesha on the street
You can spot an habesha from a mile away
You're at a birthday party and you hear: "Ha-py Berezday to You!"
The letter Z is pronounced "Zed"
Your mom is in the kitchen for 10 hours & still is not done cooking
Your freezer is stuffed with kebay, berbere, and injera
You ask "Are you habesha?", even though you know they are.
You, your father, and your mother have three different last names
You brush your teeth with a tree branch
Every habesha is your "cousin"
You are familiar with the expression "Waaa" and its various functions, which can be used to express a warning, excitement, anger, sadness etc
Your mother and her friends gossip over buna/bun
Your parents always make you take pictures by flowers or greenery
When you enter someone's house you spend the first 10 minutes going around and kissing everybody 3 times
Your parents want to call your name but they call all your siblings first before they finally get it right
A party starts at 6 and you show up at 10
You pronounce your last name 20 times for people and they still dont get it right
You recognize a simple family gathering to be more than 50 people
You say things like "what did he said" or "what did he did"
If your parents say: "shat ap your mouz"
If you or parents pronounce "the world" as " ze worlid"
You have never heard your parents say "I love you" to each other or seen them kiss
You are forced to eat more injera even though you have already had 2 plates
You always try to get a discount at a store even if the item is on sale
Your parents get very excited when they hear the word "FREE"
Your parents tell you how everything is better back home than it is here
The shortest song is 7 minutes long
Your family fights over who GETS to pay the bill, who HAS to sit in the front seat, GETS to wash the dishes, etc
If at every wedding it looks like all the mothers have robbed a jewlery store
Everybody back home thinks that you are rich
Bob Marley is pronounced Bom Barley
You are at a party and you hear: elelelelelelelelelelelele
You pronounce "brother" as "brazer"
Anytime you see someone you know, you kiss them 3 times
You have family who've been in the country since the 70s, and they still have an accent
The men are always in the living room talking politics, and the women are in the kitchen talking about something that happened to someone
...You are laughing right now!
hahahah, herregud! :D