Via JD on Facebook
Take off your shoes, grab a blanket, and read this (while sitting up).
posted on Aug. 7, 2015, at 11:11 a.m.
4. Everything was bad luck. Whistle inside? Good job, you just ensured yourself a life with no money.
5. Actually, you were always being told a lot of things would rain destruction upon you, like reading lying down, which would basically leave you blind.
8. Every pickle jar, jam jar, anything jar was promptly cleaned, repurposed and used as tupperware.
10. One out of every two people you knew from the old country was an engineer.
No, not that kind.
11. Dropping lines from Pushkin poems or centuries old sayings was just what you did in conversation.
15. Birthdays meant fielding phonecalls from every uncle, aunt, second cousin, and family friend, saying: “I wish you health, happiness, and success in your personal life.”
16. Telling your friends to take their shoes off once they got in the house was always a treat.
17. You were pretty sure books were meant to be bought as series — the collected works of [every Russian writer who ever lived].
18. Your parents always praised the wonders of American medicine — but kept a few bottles of the magical Russian stuff stashed around the house.
Ever heard of Valerian? Great for anxiety apparently. And why use iodine when you could use zelyonka.
19. It was only when you started going to school that you learned sandwiches came with two pieces of bread, not just one.
21. Novoe Russkoe Slovo was all the news that’s fit to print (in Russian and a month or three late).
22. When the U.S. took a political decision they didn’t agree with, the first thing you heard was: “This country is turning into the Soviet Union!”
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