Forty Ways To Tell If You're EgyptianForty Ways To Tell If You're Egyptian
You say "estubid" and "owet" for "stupid" and "out"
Your Mom hits u with anything that is near her, anything from a shoe to a bowl
Your parents brag about you even if you're bad
You are married to your first cousin
Your family eats koushari with their hands
You own a grocery store or a gas station
You're fat and blame it on your parents, or you're bald
Your taunt asks you when she can dance at your wedding
You smoke as if it were your last day on earth...and you only smoke apple or manga sheesha
You wear more cologne than deodorant
You pronounce "the things" za sings"
You put tahina in and on everything and brag about how healthy it is
You gossip about your own family...with members of your own family
Your aunts and uncles have more than 4 kids
You eat kofta at least 4 times a week
You cook a meal that lasts a week
You pity anyone who is not an Egyptian and think all other
cultures are morally corrupt
You have fruit trees in your backyard and when they are in season you live off of them
You watch the hell out of the Arabic channel
You have billions of cousins
At weddings it takes the bride and groom 4 hours to kiss all the guests and everybody hits their drink with their forks
You "get down" from the car instead of "getting out" of it
You act like you want to pay, but in reality you hate to pay
You have a gold necklace of your name written in Arabic
You own and/or play a tubleh
Your middle name is your father's first name
You never pay the tolls on the highway
You play cards till the break of dawn
Your Mom says things like: put za sings in za sing
You can't have a meal without aish
If you are an Egyptian woman you dye your hair an obviously fake shade of blonde that is nonexistent in nature and swear that it's natural
You feel proud when someone famous or a celebrity has any Arabic blood in them
You teach your American friends Arabic words (mostly bad ones) and get happy when they use them in normal conversations
You have five different foods at your dinner table
If you're a single Egyptian guy, your Mom tries to get u married when you're 12
Your favorite food is warah aneb, but you are embarrassed to tell your friends that you eat leaves for dinner
You get really happy and call the whole family to the room when there is a special or documentary on Egyptians or anything Arabic related on CNN or PBS
You use church as a social ground to meet potential wives/husbands
You have lefa hair...and if you don't, u have curly hair
Your father swears at you with words that effect himself