Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Your Dutch when

LOL so true...

>
>BE A DUTCHMAN IF.......
>>>
>>>You finish the food on your plate in a restaurant even though it is
>>>burnt or otherwise unfit for human consumption;
>>>
>>>You reused plastic margarine containers long before anyone had heard of
>>
>>>the environmental movement;
>>>
>>>You have a two volume address book, Volume I: A-U Volume II: V-Z
>>
>>>
>>>Your main contribution to gender equality was the switch from King to
>>>Wilhelmina brand peppermints;
>>>
>>>Your range of restaurants is restricted by the contents of a "Buy one
>>>meal, get one free" coupon book that you purchased to support
>>>missionaries in Brazil;
>>>
>>>You wipe the last of the butter out of the container with your bun;
>>>
>>>Your mother's hairdo is the same at your wedding as it was at hers;
>>>
>>>Your closet is divided into work clothes and Sunday clothes;
>>>
>>>Your church attendance record is not disrupted by childbirth;
>>>
>>>Your Sunday routine resembles: church, coffee, roast beef, soup,
>>
>>>snooze, and church;
>>>
>>>You have a living room but never sit in it;
>>>
>>>All your cookies taste like almonds;
>>>
>>>You make the bed in your hotel room;
>>>
>>>The last tip you left at a restaurant! was: "Don't wear so much makeup"
>>>and "A little quicker with the coffee next time";
>>>
>>>You have always been to church on New Year's Eve;
>>>
>>>You can sing "eere zij God" even though you can't speak Dutch;
>>>
>>>Seeing raised hands during worship causes you to look around for a
>>hold up man;
>>>
>>>You are still trying to justify owning a dishwasher;
>>>
>>>At your wedding everyone is swaying but no one is dancing;
>>>
>>>You have attended worship services at a campground amphitheater;
>>>
>>>You know what an afghan is;
>>>
>>>You have lace on your windows but not on your underwear;
>>>
>>>Your two permanent Saturday jobs are to wash the car and make sure you
>>>have enough change for the offerings;
>>>
>>>All of your recipes are adapted to fit a 9 x 13 pan;
>>>
>>>You can't imagine a funeral reception without ham buns;
>>>
>>>The usher never needs to ask you where you want to sit;
>>
>

5 comments:

morgan said...

that's funny.

i'm excited you're 'in on it' too! YAY! who do you have?

Alyson Sunny said...

as far as I remember S & A ( I dont really want to say it all out there, cause you know.... they could be reading this.... which reminds me I should go and get the stuff.

Anonymous said...

As for the "butter container" comment...I must admit the Polish have you beat...for as long as I remember it always was used as "Polish tupperware" in my family. As for "The usher never needs to ask you where you want to sit" this is definitely Lutheran as we have not changed in 500+ years...ok just joking about the last one. But ya I am sure you can make those things fit whatever your background maybe...Polish Lutheran...man one would think I would be Roman Catholic...Nope!

Tim said...

Ahhhh, it's all so true....really it's almost sad how we can be stereotyped by a internet list.... but on a cheery note, I know there is another Dutch person in my complex because they have those weird lace half-curtains with windmills on them in the window, Netherlands Rule!!

Anonymous said...

HA HA I LURV IT.
You know, I think its funny that a lot of the time people go "ha ha that is so lutheran" etc. and the like. and all the while i'm thinking in my head, "you know, the CRC/Can.RC is exactly the same in that way..."

I *heart* being catholic, but i'm sure we have stereotypes as well.

*Amber*