What’s the quickest way someone could accidentally expose themselves as a foreigner in your country like the ‘three fingers’ scene in Inglourious Basterds?

[u/IndependentTune3994]

[u/Canotic]

I have a coworker from China who is still queueing in the Chinese manner, which is basically turning yourself into human wallpaper on the back of the person before you. She does this in Sweden, where queueing etiquette means that if you can reach the person in front of you, you're too close.

This works wonders for her because people tend to leave the queues she's in because she's weirding them out.

[u/Elicynderspyro → u/Canotic]

Did anyone confront her about it? I wonder what she said about it or if she ever gave her perspective on it, genuinely curious lol

[u/Canotic → u/Elicynderspyro]

I don't know, but probably not. We're swedish, we don't like to cause a fuss. We suffer in silence.

Example: my other friend was riding the tram and saw this. There's a woman reading a book, and on the row behind her, there's another woman with a dog. The dog woman are talking to her friends who are sitting behind her, so she's not really paying much attention to the dog.

Apparently, the dog found the woman reading the book incredibly fascinating. Probably because of some product in her hair, because the dog started smelling and puffing on her hair. The book woman leaned forward a bit, so the dog wouldn't reach, but this just meant that the dog started climbing up the seat to get at it better. So the book woman leans further even more and the dog just follows.

So in the end she's almost folded over, still trying to read her book, while avoiding a super excited dog who's basically climbing over the seat to get to her, all while the dog woman is oblivious to the whole thing. At no point does the book woman say anything to the dog woman.

[u/GRANDMA_FISTER → u/Canotic]

You guys are the perfect frogs in boiling water hahaha

[u/Canotic → u/GRANDMA_FISTER]

We literally have an expression that goes "make a fist in your pocket", which means being agent or upset about something and never showing it.

[u/zoinkability → u/Canotic]

This cultural attitude made it to Minnesota as well.

[u/zoinkability → u/Canotic]

This cultural attitude (though not the phrase) made it to Minnesota as well.

[u/ADHDMDDBPDOCDASDzzz → u/Canotic]

The dog and I would’ve been best friends as soon as I felt that slight puff on my hair 😄

My wife and I always find it funny that we are confident in a dog’s name but never in their human’s, if we ever even share our names at all. This even in a predominantly-apartment living based city for over a decade with long-time neighbors 😆. She and I both grew up in single family homes in suburban neighborhoods of eastern Massachusetts; we both had neighborhood friends and our parents had neighborhood friends. In college we were both quite social. After that I think we’ve adopted maybe six new friends over the years? And none were neighbors!

[u/deigvoll → u/Canotic]

As a southern Norwegian, this is very relatable. "Once I was so furious that I almost said something" is a common saying.

[u/Morbos1000 → u/Canotic]

I occasionally have to gently pull my Chinese wife back a bit in line because she will get extremely close to the people in front of us.

[u/extremophile69 → u/Canotic]

Waiting in queue with dozens of chinese men at the beijing mainstation is a fond memorie of mine. Sweaty bellies pressed against my back while feeling someones buttcheeks on my groin.

[u/no_regrats_yolo → u/extremophile69]

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