How to Be Greek No.1

OK, let's first establish the ground rule here. This is just for fun. I just thought it'd be a chuckle to publish an occasional post in a series under this heading so please, guys, take it as it's intended! Fact is, we all take ourselves too seriously most of the time, don't we. Anyway, I hope you'll detect the underlying affection I have for all of my Greek neighbours nationwide when you read these.

That established, here's rule one in a series that will follow in no particular order whatsoever. It's just as the thoughts occur to me, I'll post 'em.

How to be Greek, Rule 1. - If you're travelling in a vehicle.
If you're driving anywhere for anything more than fifteen minutes, if you're Greek you simply have to stop somewhere and pick up a frappé to go. This also applies if you're driving a van, a truck or a coach. No one will take you seriously as a Greek if you don't have at least one plastic take-away frappé cup either on the go or empty and still hanging around in the cockpit somewhere.

None of your nancy-boy mineral water bottle malarkey will do OK? It has to be a frappé. Fact is too, most Greeks take it black, so I'm still not quite there since I have a dash of milk in mine.

When I work on the excursions in summer every driver I've ever worked with has a cup holder near his steering wheel within which is either a frappé in progress, or one that was recently finished. I don't think they throw away the old one until they have a new one to take its place, makes them feel nervous if that cupholder's empty.

Still, a little milk notwithstanding, at least I'm on the right track! (In fact, the wife is too, since that photo above is in our car this past week.)