Jeff Foxworthy started a series of “you might be a redneck” jokes. These were things like “If you own a home that’s mobile, and 13 cars that aren’t… you might be a redneck.”
These spawned a whole series of jokes and people saying “If you… you might be a…”
Today, I share with you a few of my “If you… You might be a traveler”
- If you hear people asking you (often) how much weight you’ve lost, and asking them “I’ve lost weight?” (because you truly haven’t noticed), you might be a traveler.
- If you have fewer shirts available to you (on a daily basis) than you have fingers on one hand, you might be a traveler.
- If (in your brain,) you organize the information you receive about happenings back home by the country you were in when you heard the news, you might be a traveler.
- If you no longer have room on your 500 GB backup drive because it is filled with thousands of pictures from all kinds of places, you might be a traveler.
- If you get asked the question: “What’s your favorite place?”, and you answer “For what activity?”, you might be a traveler.
- If you eat things which you suspect people in your home country would judge you for eating (rabbit, reindeer, rat, alligator, and guinea pig come to mind), you might be a traveler.
- If you judge the cleanliness of your clothing not by whether or not it’s dirty, but by how dirty it is (and how much it smells), you might be a traveler.
Do you have any that YOU would add to the list? Please post them using the comments below!
If you arrive at the airport, convinced it is time to leave the country, and the nice lady at the counter says “You’re not booked for today – your ticket says you’re supposed to fly out tomorrow”, you might be a traveller.
Hey Anne! This is a GREAT one. Where and when were you when this happened?
This was shortly before Christmas 2004 – Anja and I were travelling from Fiji to New Zealand and we couldn’t wait to see our friends – so flew out a day early ;o)
Nicely done! 🙂
Awesome! And really not at the same time! When was this?
You might be a traveller, or just very trusting when it comes to that selfwritten itinerary 😉 That was Fiji on our worldtrip, and one of the most horrible starts to a day that in the end turned out to be awesome, because it took us to New Zealand!
Most days that end in New Zealand end up being good days. 🙂
-When people ask you “if you learned the language before going”, and you think (say),yea, sure, and next week I am going to learn my next country language, and then in two weeks another language and in three weeks…..
-learned what Skype was back in ITS beginning, before it became so popular, due to a sticker shock international cell phone bill……
-you know your passport # by memory
-your travel agents phone number is on your speed dial
-you quit buying crap from countries because your house is full of it 🙂
-people think its cool when you tell them the underwear you are wearing is from one country,socks from another,shirt from another. You know its because either baggage was lost or laundry was late getting back to you…
John, these are AWESOME! You sound well-traveled.
I completely relate to the Skype one… I was using “Net2Phone” to call Carrie in 2004 because of a crazy cell phone bill I once had.
Did we meet you somewhere or did you just happen across our page somehow?
Oh… there’s another one…
If you met someone in your travels, but need to visualize the coffee shop, hotel, hostel, dive shop, or airport, in order to know what country you met them in…
-If you can’t remember the American words for things anymore (cilantro / coriander, trolley/tram, flammable/inflammable –yes those are opposites, but mean the same), and have to ask for help, you might be a traveler.
-If your passport contains significant numbers of stamps, while your mailbox is non-existent… you might be a traveler.
What fun! Somehow I missed this a couple years ago, but in just the last week, I’ve come to the conclusion I must be a traveler.
… when your sister asks you which Mexican trip you prefer and you keep revisiting each place for about an hour just giving all the positive things about each place and her eyes kind of glaze over.
… when your neighbor asks you which country would you want to go back to and you keep talking about specific things you experienced while there, unable to determine which one you’d go back to.
… when asked where you’d like to go next and the list just keeps going on and on.