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when someone asks you to light the grill and your response is, "sure, where is your blow dryer?"

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When you have to chose between two queues at the Unimarc. If you choose the one with the European tourists, they are holding their funny money in little plastic zip-lok bags the way you do with crime evidence or left-over green beans but at least they won't be holding things up by paying in handfuls of 10-peso coins that they pull out of multiple socks and pockets and envelopes and they're always short and so they have to surrender that one litre of beer and then the cashier has to call the supervisor to unlock the register so that a new total can be calculated. Or you can chose the checkout queue with the little chilean people and you tower over these tiny munchkins while spending 35 minutes to move just four people through the queue because they have sent out scouts to continue shopping but when mamá reaches the checkout she realises she forgot the bread and so the cashier goes into suspended animation while mamá shuffles to the back of the store and finds a plastic bag and selects two no maybe three no maybe four no three after all and gets in the queue to have the bread weighed and labeled and then comes shuffling back with a big shit-eating smile and starts going through all those pockets and socks and envelopes for enough 10-pesos coins to pay for it all.....

patagoniax wrote:.
When you have to chose between two queues at the Unimarc. If you choose the one with the European tourists, they are holding their funny money in little plastic zip-lok bags the way you do with crime evidence or left-over green beans but at least they won't be holding things up by paying in handfuls of 10-peso coins that they pull out of multiple socks and pockets and envelopes and they're always short and so they have to surrender that one litre of beer and then the cashier has to call the supervisor to unlock the register so that a new total can be calculated. Or you can chose the checkout queue with the little chilean people and you tower over these tiny munchkins while spending 35 minutes to move just four people through the queue because they have sent out scouts to continue shopping but when mamá reaches the checkout she realises she forgot the bread and so the cashier goes into suspended animation while mamá shuffles to the back of the store and finds a plastic bag and selects two no maybe three no maybe four no three after all and gets in the queue to have the bread weighed and labeled and then comes shuffling back with a big shit-eating smile and starts going through all those pockets and socks and envelopes for enough 10-pesos coins to pay for it all.....

lider san calos de apoquindo............................................ rich neigbourhood, 10 peso coints dont exist, and they have in excess of checkouts open.... but then again santiago is not chile

and we go on saturday morning, there are more promo girls giving away free food than cusotmers... free breaky!

I just voluntarily chose to eat a breakfast consisting of cCachantun con gas and a sanwich of tuna, tomato and palta. I who frequented every bagel and coffee place within a 25 mile radius of my home in the USA. I just may lose those "USA 20 lbs" that seemed a residency requirement.

Complained when there was no palta for my Italiano. "What do you MEAN there is no palta?"

- You're 5'2" and you can happily watch a gig from the 20th row.
- You think nothing of calling your friends to see if they fancy going out for a drink at 2am.
- Your partner starts to freak out to comic proportions every single time you have unprotected sex.
- When someone says something is tuna flavoured, you actually stop and wonder: fish or fruit.

When you are constantly borrowing your friends cell to call your maestro/mechanic/jardinero/other person you have paid to do a job because if they see your number they will not answer because: 1. you are calling them to complain about the job they did. 2. you are calling them to find out when they will come and finish the job. 3. You are calling them because you want to hire them for more work.

Either way you must call them from a number other than the original one you called them from.

You get pissed off with all these responses and you lose your sense of humour and the ability to laugh at yourself...why don't you just all bugger off back home!

You have 20 different women claiming they are having your baby, and you know for a fact that at least 10 of them are lying.

Just Kidding.

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You know you've been in Chilito too long when you drop something and instinctively say "chuuuuuuuuuuuuut....." instead of "shiiiiiiiiiiiiit."

patagoniax wrote:

zer0nz wrote:.what other bad chilean habits have expats picked up?

Pissing on the walls of city buildings in broad daylight.

I saw worse once.