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Q: Anybody else bring home some bad habits back home?
I'm home (US) for the holidays and I've caught myself:
- not tipping at the bar
- agreeing with someone with an "ungh"
- jaywalking
I now interrogate everyone and verbally abuse them when they don't give the the answers I want.
sorrel:
@Phil
i hate you
you're a loser and a ****
stop judging me
do you kown the law?
I have even mastered answering questions with random comments that have no relation to the questions and are insulting 
icnif77:
@Phil: was marriage in China your thing? Is there anything wrong with Ozz girls? 
philbravery:
yep sounds like marriage to me lol @ icnif was married to a Aussie girl for 15 years then got parole and married a lady
icnif77:
We misunderstood Phil!
I think, he meant Sorrel's interrogating and verbally abusing everybody same as (his) 
wifey does to a husband.
I've never been to Ozz and I've never been married, either. Got to hit Ozz one of these days.
I wouldn't call it a bad habit but one of the oddest habits I found myself doing was opening the VPN to look at websites that are freely accessible in my own country. I guess it has become such a routine thing for me to do that I now use VPN's without even thinking about it.
Scandinavian:
I actually continue to use VPN back home... making it moderately more difficult for intelligence agencies to track my online activities.
I get jumpy in queues. Standing right behind the person in front, always looking around for potential queue jumpers and ready to fight them off at a moments notice. Everyone else is just casually lining up, so to them it must look like I'm on a crazy caffeine high, or something to that effect.
Another on is crossing the road one lane at a time. I casually stride out into the middle of the road, to wait for the traffic to clear in the other direction, only for the drivers in both directions to slam on the breaks and the entire road comes to a standstill. It's extremely embarrassing.
Basically I think these are signs I've been in China too long. Reverse culture shock is real, and causes all sorts of anxiety where I wouldn't expect it whenever I go home.
I took the wife home with me last time I went, does that count?
coineineagh:
yes. yes it does. in how many ways, depends on your wife's habits.
mArtiAn:
Well she used to be a death metal nun, so she has a lot of bad habits.
I now interrogate everyone and verbally abuse them when they don't give the the answers I want.
sorrel:
@Phil
i hate you
you're a loser and a ****
stop judging me
do you kown the law?
I have even mastered answering questions with random comments that have no relation to the questions and are insulting
icnif77:
@Phil: was marriage in China your thing? Is there anything wrong with Ozz girls?
philbravery:
yep sounds like marriage to me lol @ icnif was married to a Aussie girl for 15 years then got parole and married a lady
icnif77:
We misunderstood Phil!
I think, he meant Sorrel's interrogating and verbally abusing everybody same as (his) wifey does to a husband.
I've never been to Ozz and I've never been married, either. Got to hit Ozz one of these days.
speaking mostly chinese and some english with my kids, to the annoyment of german locals and dutch relatives.
as martian, my wife adds a few habits. the tasty sichuan cuisine makes up for a lot, though.
the worst of the bad habits: referring to myself as a foreigner, and my babies as foreign-looking because they resemble me. which my wife is very happy about. we met some other half-half kids, and they look more chinese, which their moms don't seem to like.
I'm not at all concerned with food safety when I go home.
Mom, "Don't eat that roast beef, it's a little shiny."
Me, "Haha, Mom I've eaten so much street food that it's a statistical probability that I've had stray cat on a stick. Your shiny, USDA approved beef doesn't scare me."
I am not back home but I rarely use please and thank you anymore. I used to say it all the time before! Losing my mannerism!
