You know you're from ATHENS when...

[Ellinas]

Most of them are not a joke at all...
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You know you're from ATHENS when:

Afternoon becomes morning, and evening becomes noon

You eat dinner after 10 p.m.

You eat breakfast before going to bed

When the traffic light turns orange, instead of pressing the brakes, you speed through

It takes you three hours to drink a cup of coffee

You dress up to go for coffee, but you go clubbing with sandals

You are over clubbing by the age of 20

"Clubbing" doesn't really mean clubbing, and you use the term for fun because you find it odd

Pollution doesn’t bother you

You hate everything about cab drivers: their music, their know-it-all bitter attitude and their fake stories. Just take me to my destination and shut up.

Your neighbourhood has a street called El. Venizelou

Your city is filled with signs for “El. Venizelos” airport

When driving, people mistake your thank-you gesture for a MOUNTZA

You forget what Telestet is now called

You complain that it’s too cold when its 30 degrees with a little cloud cover in summer

You argue with your friends about whether North is better than South

Pavements are seen as parking spaces

You can’t understand how cities in other countries function without periptera

Tourists amuse you

You’ve never seen the changing of the guard at Syntagma, and still cannot understand why people find it so amusing.

You are tired of seeing women with 4x4s driving as if they own the road.

You are so over the Athens-Thessaloniki rivalry

You consider Athens the only true city in Greece

Most people came from somewhere else, even if they hide it

You consider the Interamerican tower a skyscraper

You call your friends and your enemies by the same name: MALAKAS

You have had two meals of the day at a cafe/restaurant because you sat there for so long

Strikes are so frequent that you rarely know what they are for

Rain and snow wreak havoc but simply add to the excitement

You associate Syggrou with debauchery (hookers, strippers, Baby-O)

The progressive degradation of Athenian adolescents depresses you

You avoid using Piraeus harbour as your gateway to the islands, and choose the more efficient Rafina instead

Everyone smokes, and it's usually Marlboro Lights

Frappe was the first type of coffee you tried

You can easily find yourself in a traffic jam at 4 am on a Sunday morning

You refuse to go out for the 8th night in a row to PARALIAKI, but you do it anyway.

When you go to Kolonaki on a weekday, your friends from abroad wonder: do these people work?

You drive to the bakery which is down the street from your house

You are annoyed that in order to go shopping on a Saturday you need to wake up early

You like getting in bitch fights with public servants

You see a children's party centre right next to strip clubs on Syggrou

Your taxi driver's music puts you in a bad mood

No smoking signs are so vintage.

Recycling is still theoretical to you.

Your souvlakia come faster than an ambulance

You wouldn’t dream of wearing red near or about Leoforos on a football night

You pay a whole month's salary at the Bouzoukia in one night

Despite all this, you wouldn’t dream of living anywhere else.

[Hellenika]

Haha, so Ellinas, how many of those are you guilty of? lol

[Ellinas]

In a lot of them. However I rarely go to bouzoukia or bars... I usually stay awake at home
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[DespoThessalo]

XAXAXA poli kalw Ellinas

[Hellenika]

lol ok. Was funny how you have to eat 2 meals at the cafe cause you sat there so long
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And this one,
When you go to Kolonaki on a weekday, your friends from abroad wonder: do these people work? LOL Is that like a club or something?

[Ellinas]

Originally Posted by Hellenika
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lol ok. Was funny how you have to eat 2 meals at the cafe cause you sat there so long
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And this one,
When you go to Kolonaki on a weekday, your friends from abroad wonder: do these people work? LOL Is that like a club or something?

Kolonaki is an elite area in central Athens, in the South foothills of Lycabettos hill. Many actors , politicians etc live there. Kolonaki has a commercial part with many cafes and shops (it's good to look, painful to buy though..
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[Greekhooligan]

You know you're from Athens when its 100 degrees... 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and the body odor from others in the "standing room only" Elektriko train doesn't bother you

[Hellenika]

Originally Posted by Ellinas
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Kolonaki is an elite area in central Athens, in the South foothills of Lycabettos hill. Many actors , politicians etc live there. Kolonaki has a commercial part with many cafes and shops (it's good to look, painful to buy though..
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Sounds like a nice place. I can imagine must be a fortune.

[Apollyon]

Originally Posted by Hellenika
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Sounds like a nice place. I can imagine must be a fortune.

haha..... baby-o.....
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Athens are a nice place , (<<----Really thats an Attica dialect )
so I cried black tears of sorrow when i moved away to Kalamata.

[Hellenika]

I am afraid to ask now what is this place Baby O, lol Are you originally from Athens or did you just live there and now moved back?