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Top 20: You know you're a PC volunteer in
Macedonia when...
20. You have a colleague
who regularly tells you how
things were better under
Communism
13. You get on a bus and
hope someone lights up a
cigarette so you don't have
to smell the exhaust fumes
19. You start thinking that
the Spanish siesta has nothing on the Macedonian
pauza
12. Talking with a Macedonian you find yourself more
interested in the condition
of their teeth rather than
what they're saying
18. The heavy-handed PC
travel restrictions imposed
on you give you a good idea
of what it must have been
like under Communism
11. Every time you hear a
car backfire the first thing
that comes to mind is
"Spring Offensive???"
17. The grant you've been
working on for an NGO
finally gets approved and
the director of that NGO
asks if it's possible to have
to the money wired to his
personal account
10. The people fastidiously
close all windows in buildings, cars and buses because they are totally convinced that the slightest
breeze on one's face will
cause Bell's Palsy
16. You get in a taxi in the
capitol and tell the driver
the address you want to go
to and he pulls out a hand
drawn map of Skopje and
says "ne znam"
9. One of the ways you can
offend your driver is by
putting on a seatbelt; to
make him move faster than
he has in a while, make a
motion to open your window
15. Your colleagues refer to
you as Mr./Ms./Mrs. "Land
of the Free", then ask you
to explain to them for the
eighth time why you can't
go to dinner with them at a
restaurant that's just 10
minutes away, but happens
to be over the border?
14. After washing your
hands in a public restroom
you find that there's nothing to dry your hands with
so you just wipe them on
your pants like when you
were a kid
8. You’re the only o