You know you're a Bosnian when:

- your family owns a manual coffee grinder
- you take your shoes off when you enter the house and every family member has his/her own slippers (plus some extra for the guests)
- your neighbor comes over every day uninvited for coffee
- your father wears striped pajamas
- you start your day with a cup of coffee and a cigarette
- you have 17 consonants and 2 vowels in your last name
- your mother or grandmother does not want to accept the fact that you are really not hungry
- you have "pita" for dinner at least 4 days a week
- you have "sarma" for dinner the remaining 3 days
- a loaf of bread is eaten for lunch every day
- when your grandmother insists that you eat something with a "spoon" at least
once a week
- you are six and your father sends you out to buy him cigarettes and beer
- you do not speak to your cousins who are the fans of the rival soccer team
- you chop up some onions and then decide what to cook for dinner
- your mother insists that draught will kill you
- your mother tells you not to sit on the concrete slabs because your ovaries are going to freeze
- your mother tells you to wear an undershirt, no matter what the temperature is outside
- your mother tells you not to sit close to the TV and not to use cell phones because you will get brain tumor
- your mother tells you that you will get sick from drinking cold water
- you tuck your undershirt into your underwear
- your parents wonder why you take shower every day
- your parents tell you that they had you and your sister/brother when they were your age
- a couple of days really means a week or so
- your parents have embroideries on their walls and crochets on every piece of furniture including the TV
- your parents prepare pickled peppers and cabbage every autumn
- your mother threatens you with the words "just wait until your father comes back home"
- you spend all your family vacations in Neum or Makarska Riviera
- you drive there in a family Golf
- you take a cab to go everywhere
- you begin most sentences with "jebi ga" (f***), "svega mi" (I swear to all), “matere mi moje” (I swear to my mother), or "Tita mi" (I swear to Tito)
- your young cousin does not know what "Tita mi" means
- you cannot explain what "ba" means, but you use it all the time
- you are the only one who gets all the Mujo and Suljo jokes
- you know the entire script of the movie "Walter brani Sarajevo" (Walter protects Sarajevo) by heart
- you despise your cousin who is going out with a UN-soldier
- your mother bakes a cake without oil, sugar, eggs, or flour, and she calls it "a war cake"
- time is divided into before and after the war
- your father refers to all politicians with "djubrad" (garbage), "lopovi" (thieves),
and "kriminalci" (criminals)
- you have at least one best friend from high school who went to "their side" and you still cannot explain it to yourself why
 - your remaining friends from high school live in Australia, Norway, USA, South Africa, Malaysia, etc.
- you do not want to talk about the war to anyone, but that is the most important thing you talk about with other Bosnians
- you have at least 3 passports, and have lived in at least 4 countries during the past 13 years