Post by Bozur on Jul 15, 2009 1:26:58 GMT -5
from CM
You know you grew up from Montenegro when...
You know you grew up from Montenegro when...
You know you grew up from Montenegro when...
01. You watched that weird Italian TV show on Rai 1 with the talking muppet bird in the tree every morning
02. You ADORED "muceno jaje"
03. You loved to watch German MTV and RTL, yet did not understand anything
04. Your grandfather would get up at 4:55 am to go get bread and milk at the pijaca (pronounced piatsa or market)
05. When the whole city would literally shut down between 12pm-5pm, and you would only see a confused dog wandering through the streets
06. When you dread the half hour and hour long news on RTCG
07. When you played soccer in the most obscure places with that famous soccer ball which had the stitches of the 94/98 world cup flags on it
08. When you only had a ventilator and only recently got "klima" (AC)
09. When the best thing to do from 7pm was play hide'n'seek
10. When the tap water in Podgorica is the best water in the world
11. When there was always the weird guy in your area who never
spoke to anyone and usually went about his own business, everyone called him "ludi (crazy) Mitar/Jovan/..etc…"
12. When anything and everything was stolen in the blink of an eye
13 . When your grandmother would send you to the local market to get a johnny walker red label, or any other sort of alcoholic beverage, and you were 5 years old ;D
14. You loved AC Milan to death when Dejan Savicevic played on it
15. When you went to the market, and when the clerk didn't have enough change, or didn't feel like giving you any, they gave you a piece of chewing gum
16. When you saw a brand new Mercedes parked beside a broken down 'peglica', with a different colored door
17. When you ate EVERYTHING with bread, even pasta or potatoes
(some disagreed)
18. When your grandfather would not let you open the car window, in fear that you would catch a cold, even when it was 40 degrees outside ;D ;D
19. You would all argue to death about who's going to pay the bill at the cafe or restaurant ;D ;D ;D
20. You went to the beach with nothing but a pair of 'natikace' (flip flops), swimming shorts, and sometimes a towel
21. When some nights, you hung out with your best friends, eating burek and 'kisjelo mlijeko' (yogurt), sitting on some stairs outside till 3 am
22. After clubbing and or drinking, you would always go and get a greasy gyros or burek'
23. When are your going out, your mom/wife/sister made sure you wore clean white socks with black shoes (In Zeta only ).
24. When in time of inflation ur neighbor would come with a cup and ask for some sugar or oil.....
25. When your mum would call you to come home from playing, shouting on the top of her voice from the balcony.... "Marko dolazi kuci vise majmune jedan da rucas!!" ('marko come home already you monkey to have lunch!!') ;D ;D ;D ;D
26. When we used to play basketball all day long at the "Gimnazija" and after all that used to stink like skunks.
27. If you used to do something bad your parents would impose sanctions on you for a week by staying home and getting bored to death.uh ah
28. Going to "Brdo Gorica" every day to pump and flex muscles so we can get more "Ribica" ('Fishes' or girls) in the city.
29. When your mom wouldn't let you go outside after you took shower because you are going catch a cold even if it was hotter then hell outside.
30. You couldn't eat kolace (cookies) because guest are coming over. ;D
31. When you drink "deutch coffee", which is called "espresso machiatto" everywhere else in the world, including Germany...
32. When you can hear turbo-folk music in a discotheque...
33. When you no matter how hungry while being guest would never accept the offered food so that people around might not say 'poor guy he doesn't have to eat home' ;D ;D
34. When you were betting in bookies every weekend to get some money for going out.
35. When the main question when buying car is how much petrol it consumes? ;D
36. When you can remember buying new shoes in August, because in September is school and you have to wear new shoes
37. When you 1.9tdi (red i) is the best machine ever
38. When you were little, you were told that if you keep being naughty, ciganka (gypsy woman) will take you away. ;D ;D
39. When you and your friends went to na bedeme in the spring time to throw eggs on tourists. ;D ;D
40. When you go to movie theater and you come out with chewing gum and pizza dough stuck in your hair, and a very sore head from playing zunkalica. ;D
41. When you get severely drunk and go to the ambulance to get a c**ktail infusion hooked up, and your other drunk friends take over and speed up the process "because they know better than doctor does".
42. You know you grew up in Montenegro when your Baba (Granny) taught you how to say your first cuss words. ;D ;D ;D
43. You know you grew up in Stari Grad when you played hide and seek and your best friend takes a dump and has no t. paper so he finds a dead vrabac (Sparrow bird) underneath the tree and wipes his butt with it. (the legend lives)
44. When you had to shower with water bottles
50. When your baba regularly called you and your siblings "magarce" (donkey) ;D ;D ;D
51. When you played 3 on 3 basketball games using a sign on the wall as a target/basket
52. When your djedo (grandpa) lets u at 8 years old play with his guns (as the real men do) ;D ;D ;D
53. When all the rakija your family had was made by your grandpa ;D
54. When in the winter we put snow blocks on the road so the car cant pass through, and the man get out of his car to put the blocks away and the hole neighborhood would shoot him with snowballs ;D ;D ;D ;D
55. When in the summer all neighborhood will go to steal fruits, but the beauty was not in the fruit but in running from insane man with a gun ;D ;D ;D ;D
56. When you hear instrument with only one string
57. When you see man shouting in the streets so everyone can here he has a business to run, or he scored last night.
58. When u are usually taller and better looking than most of the guys around
59. When you were sitting in the last row in the cinema and throwing popcorn or something else on the people in front of you
60. When many were driving 'zastava' or 'jugo' .... (I find it hard to notice them in Montenegro nowadays... )
61. When you ,at one point, realise you aint got s**t!
62. When you are ljakse (seljak or peasant/uncultured) and when you are driving thru red light , you are pissed of from those who passes through green one, ;D
63. When in the middle of the summer season the lights go out and everyone finds himself in darkness. (happens even along the coastal area)
64. When friends while sitting in a cafe, invite other friends to sit down and spend the day in laziness, ordering only one 'kisjela voda' (mineral water), or other cheap drinks. ;D
65. When all hot girls go wet/crazy on criminals/badboys instead of the normal folk.
66. When you would go out late at night with your friends to steal the neighbors "sipke/narandje" (pomegranates/oranges) for fun ;D
67. If you watched Good night Children (Laku noc deco) at 19.30 before going to bed
68. You know you're from Monte when you get (or used to get) electricity restrictions for half a day in 21st century, for households spend (waste) way too much electricity and don't pay the bills;
69. When you were little and sick, your mama would rub your body with loza (brandy) , so that your temperature drops. (I like this one ) ;D ;D
70. When you're declared to be the eco-state, yet many people throw their trash everywhere, except into trash containers.
71. When it's nice weather and you see hundreds of people wondering around the city, or drinking coffees at noon, although it's working day. ;D
72. When you're over 22, 23, 24, ...30 and you still live with your parents (this is a sad one) ;D
73. When you work your ass off for not more then 200/300 EUR
when your state uses EURO currency, yet is not a member state of the EU, and nobody can explain to foreigners' question 'how come?'
74. When bars and cafes are full every day and night, although everybody complains for bad standards and money lack ;D
75. When you remember smoking in the high school hall, because nobody told you that wasn't allowed
76. When you are celebrating New Years Eve home with family around candles because there is no power in whole neighborhood ~_~
77. Remember the days when you had high fever and your mum put potato slice in your socks before sleep. ;D
78. When father used rakia (brandy) to heal your wounds (even to heal toothache)...that was pain ;D ;D
79 On the first day of school you used to come in new fancy shoes (preferably Nike) and show them off...
80. When your friends used to slap you across your head when you get a new haircut… ;D ;D ;D
81. When you can’t help tapping with your Fila papuce (shues) in the summer wherever you go, even downtown…
82. If u drink only Turkish coffee (and amazingly there are only a few cafes in Podgorica where u can order one... so sad... )
83. If u ur grandma gave u the first Turkish coffee (secretly) ;D
84. If there was some woman in the neighborhood who knew to foreseen the future by looking in ur cup ;D
85. If some gypsy came to ur door step claiming that she is clairvoyant Violeta
86. If u must turn over ur cup when u have drunk ur coffee ;D
87. If you brake your arm or leg and you dont go to the hospital, but to some guy in Tuzi who heals it better then the doctor or if you are from "primorje" (coast) you go to Mr. Radulovic in Budva. ;D ;D
88. You know you grew up from Montenegro when...sjedis kuci (sitting home) i cekaju da ti pare padnu sa neba (and waiting for money to drop from the sky) ;D ;D
89. If u played 'Zzzzzzzzzumkalice...', Marbles and used unforgettable expressions like 'nema dzampale' or 'toskale'...,
Blind grandma, 'Trulih kobila'
90) If you played wars and used various kinds of plastic guns including those with water
91) If you played cards all night long, especially during the summer (remi, zing, lore...) and especially when we were a little, the game - 'donkeys' and unavoidable yelling: 'I am a donkey!' three tmes
92) If you played doctors, drivers, teachers (my favourite), singers, models... , mothers and dragged a big, bald doll with u all the time
9. gumi-gumi, all day, especially during big brake at school
93) Naughty by putting big cartoons on the street
94) Naughty by throwing eggs or balloons full of water on passers-by (if u were living in a building) ;D
95) By putting an empty wallet on the street which u previously tied with a tiny rope and wait in the bushes that someone tries to steal it ;D
96) By ringing on people's bells and run away... ;D
97) By putting disconcerting letters in peoples mailboxes ;D ;D
98) Played with words by adding -pa, -pe, -pi, -po, -pu... (for example: japa tepe vopolipim) ;D
99) Played 'fota' and drunk a LOT of water or did various stupid things
100) with a sound of sirene that informs u that it is exactly 12 pm on the 1st day in a month (i guess that most of u don't remember this )
101) Interrupted with a sound of sirenes for alarm (in 1999)...
(i know that most of these games were played all over the world but i couldn't resist mentioning them )