Addendum to "You Know You've Been Here A While"

• When you put on your hazards because the person in front of you is turning or going slow
• When you drive a little more aggressively, because that's the only way you're going to break into that line of traffic
• When you're a pro at traffic circles
• When you honk like the locals heading around a narrow curve
• When you don't even bother doing up your sandals on your way to a friend's house, because you know you'll take them off soon anyway
• When you light up inside to see the gaudy lights of the local hypermarket
• When you can't remember the exchange rate in the last country you visited or lived in
• When you can read the signs before you drive/ride by them
• When you keep a Hungry Bunny menu in your car
• When you look at people and immediately peg their nationality (I told someone that I wondered if this made me a racist, and she said that it probably just meant that I was aware. Here people are pretty proud of their diverse nationalities, which is different from back home, where it's often more polite to pretend that everyone is the same . . . or at least to honor everyone as American, without drawing attention to their ethnic heritage.)
• When you stare at local guys wearing pants