Only in Armenia:
- you do spend 2 hours chatting with your friend over the phone
complaining about the lack of time to see each other.
- you do invite few of your closest friends to your birthday party and
300 people show up.
- people stand in the doorway saying goodbye for 30 minutes and then get
back into the house for a cup of coffee.
- you are not supposed to say "NO" at a meal.
- you agree to meet your friend at 6.00 sharp and you both show up at
8.00. (and this happens in a regular fashion).
- people leave their country straightforwardly, then miss it
desperately, but never come back.
- you spend 2 hours on Abovian street explaining to a complete stranger
why you don't want to sit in a cafe and have a cup of coffee with him.
- you look out of your window at Mt. Ararat located in Turkey and say,
"what a beautiful mountain do we have!"
- you meet someone for the first time in your life and can be sure you
will find at least 5 people both of you know.
- you will find people who say "you can travel to Paris, Rome or London
but you will never find a building as beautiful as our Hamalir!"
- you will see people tinkering with their car engines in their best
clothes in full view of their "hayat".
- people go weak at the knees with exhilaration when discussing
apricots. (Yuuuuummm... :))
- you can tell the story of your life to someone you meet for the first
time, and then wonder why and how gossips spread so fast in Yerevan.
- you start making wedding plans after meeting your "future spouse" for
the second time in your life.
- you should refuse 3 times before having a meal when visiting someone.
- they would have a banknote (10 drams) equal to about 2 cents.
- you have been told for 5 times that you're fired, yet you still work
for "Medicines Sans Frontier".
- you can fit 30 people in a mini-bus that seats 12.
- they believe than an Armenian invented the Georgian alphabet (the
Georgians certainly don't confirm it!!)
- you think that Armenians invented everything.
- you believe that the most important people in history MUST have
Armenian blood in them.
- you talk with your hands when you are on the phone.
- everyone has at least 5-7 relatives in the USA (mainly in LA)
- you have read this through the end and now shine with happiness
that you have such nice friends who'd sent you this.