Received the following from Poor Innocent Guy Asa of Montgomery, Alabama:
25 Ways to Know That You or Your Parents Are Missionaries
- You can’t answer the question, “Where are you from?”.
- The vast majority of your clothes are hand-me-downs.
- You speak two languages, but can’t spell either.
- You embarrass yourself by asking what swear words mean.
- You read National Geographic and recognize someone.
- You don’t know how to play Pac-Man.
- You have a time zone map next to your telephone.
- You would rather eat seaweed than cafeteria food.
- You consider a city 500 km away to be “very close”.
- You watch nature documentaries, and think about how good that animal would taste if it were fried.
- You can cut grass with a machete, but can’t start a lawnmower.
- You speak with authority on the subject of airline travel.
- You read the international section before the comics.
- Strangers say they can remember you when you were “this tall”.
- You have friends from or in 29 different countries.
- You do your devotions in another language.
- You sort your friends by continent.
- You realize that furlough is not a vacation.
- You wince when people mispronounce foreign words.
- You’ve spoken in dozens of churches, but aren’t a pastor.
- The majority of your friends don’t speak English.
- Someone brings up the name of a team, and you get the sport wrong.
- You like everything from Reggae to Japanese rap.
- You never take anything for granted.
- You watch a movie set in a foreign country, and you know what the nationals are REALLY saying into the camera.
(Shared by Kirsten M. Chaplin-Rucquoi via The Sixth Sense – The Sense of Humor )
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