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How To Fall In Love In Sweden by Nobody: 11:34am On Oct 20, 2011 |
I just read this in a blog and it's so freaking funny. ![]() In a nutshell, loving someone in Sweden goes something like this: A) Meet at a mutual friend's party. B) Get really, really drunk. C) Make out. Sex is optional. D) If you're lucky, you are sober enough to save the other person's telephone number in your mobile, AND to put it under the correct name. E) Send a text message along the lines of "last night was nice. Shall we have a coffee sometime?" F) Spend hours analyzing the various ways in which aforementioned text message could be misinterpreted. Get your friends involved. G) Have a "fika." *(see below for an explanation of this uniquely Swedish institution) *A "fika" is a Swedish word for an ambiguous meeting that may or may not be a date, or better explained as a non-date, or a date that is pretending-not-to-be-a-date. It is also worth mentioning that one can also have a fika with a friend, colleague, family member, or neighbor. Hence the ambiguity of the whole affair. During this "fika" Swedish non-date, things are a little stilted and awkward as both parties pretend that nothing happened last Saturday night, and politely and awkwardly ask questions about the other person, usually beginning with "Where do you live?," descending into a discussion about the difficulty and frustration of the Stockholm housing market, and complaining that you have had to move seven times in the course of six months. Now, where were we, oh yes: H) At the end of this date pretending not to be a date, give each other an awkward hug, or possibly a handshake, ended with the statement, "Vi hörs!" or "Hoppas vi ses snart!" ("I'll talk to you soon." or "Hope we see each other soon!" ![]() I) Spend the entire next week pondering over who should make the next move. A WORD OF WARNING: It is not assumed here that the guy will take the lead. More likely, the opposite is expected. If the Swedish guy is brave enough open his mouth and say something at all during this date, he may feel that it is now the girl's turn to put herself out on a limb. J) Spend many more hours analyzing your feeble attempts at text message"flirting," agonizing over whether you should or should not use the word "mysig" (cozy) or "trevlig" (nice), fearing the former may be too much, and the latter may not be enough. Once again, enlist the help of your friends. K) Repeat Step A. L) Repeat Step B. M) Repeat Step C, all the while pretending it never happened the first time. N) Sometime after several more renditions of Steps B and C, go out to dinner. O) Since it's a little harder to pretend you are not on a real date in the formal atmosphere of a restaurant, drink massive amounts of the house wine. P) At the end of dinner, closely examine the bill to make sure each person pays for his or her appropriate share, including the extra five kronor for dressing on the side. Q) Get kicked out of your way-too-expensive second-hand rental contract because the person you were subletting from didn't take 10 study points and lost his/her contract for student housing. R) Get drunk again, and commiserate on the horrors of the Stockholm housing market. S) Move in together. T) Go shopping at Ikea. U) Take a romantic trip to the Canary Islands. V) Move to the suburbs, buy a Volvo and start collecting “Vuxenpoäng” (see Stockholm Syndrome for more on the ‘adult points’ systems). W) Have a child. X) Name it Johan, Erik, Fredrik, or Henrik if it’s a boy or Sara, Anna, Lisa, or Emma if it’s a girl. Y) Two months after you go back to work after having Johan/Erik/Fredrik/Henrik/Sara/Anna/Lisa/Emma, repeat Step W. Z) Enjoy an additional 18 months of parental leave. Å) Get married for your 20th wedding anniversary. 1 Like |
Re: How To Fall In Love In Sweden by Dyt(f): 11:35am On Oct 20, 2011 |
ok |
Re: How To Fall In Love In Sweden by Nobody: 11:40am On Oct 20, 2011 |
It's so simple and complicated at the same time. ![]() ![]() |
Re: How To Fall In Love In Sweden by LordReed(m): 12:13pm On Oct 20, 2011 |
Interesting but problem is what if step B & C repeats consecutively with different people? How many fika's are you gonna do? |
Re: How To Fall In Love In Sweden by lindabon: 12:18pm On Oct 20, 2011 |
noted ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Re: How To Fall In Love In Sweden by r231(m): 12:55pm On Oct 20, 2011 |
ok |
Re: How To Fall In Love In Sweden by Nobody: 1:26pm On Oct 20, 2011 |
Lord_Reed:You're talking about a love triangle there. ![]() Step B and C is absolutely necessary but you don't have to get to the final step Å) neither is a Fika necessary. |
Re: How To Fall In Love In Sweden by iice(f): 1:55pm On Oct 20, 2011 |
Sounds exhausting. I prefer to get to the point. Get the issue out of the way so to speak. |
Re: How To Fall In Love In Sweden by Nobody: 2:34pm On Oct 20, 2011 |
@iice . What issues do you mean. |
Re: How To Fall In Love In Sweden by iice(f): 2:45pm On Oct 20, 2011 |
Sleeping together and knowing next to nothing about the person. |
Re: How To Fall In Love In Sweden by MrsChima1(f): 2:51pm On Oct 20, 2011 |
Why would I want to fall in love in Sweden? ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Re: How To Fall In Love In Sweden by Nobody: 3:18pm On Oct 20, 2011 |
iice:You could fall in Love anywhere. iice: That's the way it works for them. They sleep with each other before even knowing if they're in love or not. |
Re: How To Fall In Love In Sweden by iice(f): 3:25pm On Oct 20, 2011 |
*sighs*, no even get energy ![]() |
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