You mean your family doesn't do that?

Yesterday I came back from work, picked up the mail, and glanced over a KFC ad.  Now here's the thing about me and fast food:  I'm never proud of eating it, and I often feel guilty when I do, but sometimes, I crave its fatty unhealthiness and imagine it's gotta be the best tasting thing ever.  Yesterday was one of those days.  So I gave in and got a little three-piece meal (extra crispy, yesssssss) even though I probably could have been fine with two.  As I was guiltily eating my heart-attack-in-a-box, I remembered the first time I asked for ketchup when eating fried chicken and someone asked, "For what?"  

This instance is one of many from these past years...of discovering that just because your family does it one way, it doesn't mean everyone else does too!  Hence, today's feature:  Things I always thought were normal.

1.  Eating ketchup with fried chicken

2.  Using paper plates for breakfast (compared with everyone else who just uses it for parties and get-togethers)

3.  Using paper towels in the restroom (in our defense, public restrooms do this, but most homes use linen towels)

4.  Putting soup on our rice

5.  Not sorting whites and colors for laundry, unless we're using bleach

6.  Using kid-furniture in the living room--a red, yellow, and green Iris Mini-Chest.  It's so useful, why would we put it anywhere else?

7.  Leave stuffed animals on coffee tables, piano tops, and bookshelves as decoration.  Then again, this is kinda typical of Asian households.

8.  Having no concept of "breakfast food"--leftovers, spaghetti, ramen, rice...or toast, eggs, and cereal.  Anything goes!

I shall add to this list as things come to mind!