- All through your reading, unless otherwise specified,
you should KEEP YOUR TONGUE FIRMLY
IN YOUR CHEEK
- Take a pinch of salt with each commandment
- Have a couple of High Horses handy.
You will need them to jump on, at a moment's notice.
- P.s. Click on the links in the text,
they are informative.
Now you can proceed.
HOW TO BE A TRUE HELLENE
- BLAME THEGOVERNMENT FOR EVERYTHING, be it Air Polution, Earthquakes, Floods, Fires, traffic jams, your son's poor grades, your mother in law's cooking, your daughter's undesirable boy-friend, etc.etc.
- Abhor ALL TAXES.
- As soon as a new tax law is voted in parliement, scrutinze it for loopholes.If it is ironclad and you can't find any, jump immediately on your High Horse and declare it UNDEMOCRATIC
- Deride and deplore all Civil Servants while at the same time move Heaven and Earth to secure a job in the Civil Service for your son/daughter/grand child/cousin/mother in law/pet.
- If you're male, refer to your wife/girlfriend as " The better half who takes care of the house and the children, submissive and excellent cook". If you're female refer to your husband/boy friend as " the better half who takes care of the house, the children, submissive and excellent cook."
- If you're a Union Member you will ALWAYS organize your Protest Marches/ Gatherings/Strikes, on Fridays, so that you can have a long week-end to "ponder on the results".
- You will be loyal to your Soccer team, be it the neighborhood Kickers FC, or the giants like Panathinaikos or Olympiakos. You will always be ready to defend their honor. All Umpires and Linesmen are either incompetent or deranged when your team loses, and top professionals if it wins. Needless to say all discussions pertaining to soccer are conducted with you riding your High Horse.
- Keep a running feud with the next village/town/city/island/region, on anything, from water rights to who has the superior intellectual capacities. Be the first one to defend them , with your life if necessary, whenever an external danger threatens them.
- It goes without saying that your daughter(s)/sons(s) are the most beautiful, intelligent, accomplished children in the Universe, surpassed only by your grand-children.
For the last commandment you can now remove your tongue from your cheek, throw away the salt and get rid of your high horse
- In the multiple occasions you will have, to gaze at the golden rocks jutting out into the aquamarine sea, at the high mountains where Gods dwell, and the pearly islands lacing the Aegean and Ionian Seas, you will thank God for being part of them and they part of you.
AND THAT LAST ONE IS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH.
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