21 Signs You’ve Been British For Too Long. The First One Is The Worst.

1. You’re angry that the Canadians have stolen our stereotype of being polite, but you’re too polite to say anything about it.

21 Signs You've Been British Too Long

2. On at least one occasion you have thrown the teabag in the sink and the spoon in the bin.

21 Signs You've Been British Too Long

3. You have been known to applaud sarcastically when your train arrives 20 minutes late.

21 Signs You've Been British Too Long

4. This infuriates you in more ways than you can describe:

This infuriates you in more ways than you can describe:

5. So does this:

So does this:

6. You often find yourself dropping everything and running outside to look at a hedgehog.

You often find yourself dropping everything and running outside to look at a hedgehog.

7. You don’t know how to react when you ask someone how they’re doing and they say something other than “Fine, thanks.”

21 Signs You've Been British Too Long

8. You are enraged when you see two buses pass each other on the road and the drivers don’t wave at each other.

21 Signs You've Been British Too Long

9. You have apologized to an empty room because the person you were looking for wasn’t in it.

21 Signs You've Been British Too Long

10. You’re worried that the person at the Tesco checkout thinks you’re saying “I don’t know” rather than “I don’t, no” when being asked if you have a Club card, thus making yourself look like a brainless imbecile.

21 Signs You've Been British Too Long

11. You know the dark, existential anguish of eating a Penguin and accidentally throwing away the wrapper without remembering to look at the joke.

21 Signs You've Been British Too Long

12. And it secretly bothers you that there’s not a white-chocolate version of Penguins called Polar Bears.

21 Signs You've Been British Too Long

13. It bothers you that microwaves don’t come with the Countdown theme installed.

21 Signs You've Been British Too Long

14. You often have occasion to be sad that your fingers are now too large to properly fit Hula Hoops on.

You often have occasion to be sad that your fingers are now too large to properly fit Hula Hoops on.

15. It takes you 10 minutes to write a one-line email because you’re constantly worrying that you’ll sound too formal/informal/patronising/rude.

21 Signs You've Been British Too Long

16. You have had the experience of going to make a cup of tea and realizing halfway through making it that you already had a cup you hadn’t finished yet.

21 Signs You've Been British Too Long

17. And you’ve also had the world-shattering experience of going to drink your tea and finding out you’ve already drunk it.

21 Signs You've Been British Too Long

18. You often find yourself apologizing to innocent people standing NEAR the queue, just in case you’ve accidentally jumped in front of them.

21 Signs You've Been British Too Long

19. You’re slightly upset that you weren’t actually given any say in ASDA’s “Chosen by You” range.

21 Signs You've Been British Too Long

20. You have said “Thank you” to a cashpoint.

21 Signs You've Been British Too Long

21. And you still miss Woolworths.

And you still miss Woolworths.

21 Signs You've Been British Too Long

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