You know you've been in Sweden too long when ...

your lunch habits change, Fridays get a new meaning and you silently accept queuing up to be able to enter a queue. 

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  Leif 'Loket' Olsson with Swedish standup comedian Jan Bylund in the Bingolotto Studio in 2012.

• You know you've been in Sweden too long when ... (well, is there really such a thing as spending too much time there?)

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  SIlence is fun

• 1. It's acceptable to eat lunch at 11 a.m.

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  Lunch at 11 a.m. is a definite possibility with Dagens Rätt - "Today's Dish," available at every restaurant. (This image from Tindered, a perfect stop north Kalmar along E22 on your way to Stockholm)

• 2. You think Leif 'Loket' Olsson, reportedly back leading "Bingolotto," is actually entertaining. (You're not alone, between 100,000 and over 3 million Swedes depending on evening agree.)

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  It is. Silence. Fun that is.

• 3. You rummage through your plastic bag collection to see which ones you should keep to take to the store and which can be sacrificed to garbage.

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  Queuing up to enter a queue is nothing strange in Sweden.

• 4. You associate pea soup with Thursday.

• 5. The first thing you do upon entering a bank/post office/pharmacy is look for the queue number machine.

• 6. You accept that you will have to queue up to take a queue number.

• 7. A sharp intake of breath has become part of your vocabulary, as has the sound "ahh."

• 8. You associate Friday afternoon with a trip to systembolaget.

• 9. You think nothing of paying $50 for a bottle of 'cheap' spirits at systembolaget.

• 10. Silence is fun.

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