{"id":49055,"date":"2017-06-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/49055\/13-insanely-useful-skills-every-lebanese-has-mastered"},"modified":"2023-08-11T06:19:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T06:19:06","slug":"13-insanely-useful-skills-every-lebanese-has-mastered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/49055\/13-insanely-useful-skills-every-lebanese-has-mastered\/","title":{"rendered":"13 Insanely Useful Skills Every Lebanese Has Mastered"},"content":{"rendered":"

Living in Lebanon is like playing a video game on \u2018difficult\u2019.<\/big><\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

1.<\/b> Appropriately anticipating whether your guest wants 2, 3, or 4 kisses.<\/p>\n

2.<\/b> Escaping an interrogation about your love life at every single family gathering.<\/p>\n

3.<\/b> Differentiating between the sound of a bomb, fireworks, and a car backfiring.<\/p>\n

4.<\/b> Dealing with the constant feedback about your weight from distant relatives and strangers.<\/p>\n

5.<\/b> Managing to parallel park your car between an overflowing garbage can and a chair.<\/p>\n

6.<\/b> Physically doubling the capacity of your stomach every time you visit your grandmother.<\/p>\n

7.<\/b> Driving like a completely psychopath, and dealing with fellow psychopaths on the road.<\/p>\n

8.<\/b> Finding locations with zero help from a map or proper roads, relying on gas station employees and pedestrians for help.<\/p>\n

9.<\/b> Dealing with that one aunt who is constantly setting you up with really weird dates.<\/p>\n

10.<\/b> Timing your arrival\/departure from places in direct correlation to power and elevator cuts.<\/p>\n

11.<\/b> Still managing to have friends even though you show up late to every single function, ever.<\/p>\n

12.<\/b> Managing to have a sex life while you live with your parents. <\/p>\n

13.<\/b> Dealing with your parents having post-traumatic stress and anxiety because of the civil war. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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