Today Greece is celebrating

Now you will start thinking

Is it a national day or something?

Nop

Did something of significant importance took place?

Maybe but doesn't matter

Did someone achieve something that helps our country progress further?

Irrelevant

Did we win first place in a sport?

Definitely not

Did we pay back the dept?

hahahaha

The correct answer is that it's Dimitris/Dimitra (Δημήτρης/Δήμητρα) name day but what does this mean?

In Greece the name Dimitris or Mitsos or Tzimis (Jim) or Mitsaras (etc etc) is one of the most common ones. To understand it better this name is in par with names like Miguel,Sofia,Mary,Mohamed,James,Bill,Ahmed,Li,Ali, George. (You got the picture right?)

What That Means?

You are walking down the street and suddenly you hear a random person talking to the phone "hey Dimitris/Dimitra happy name's day!", you pass that person and sit on a bench. Another person comes and sitting next to you lifting the phone and you both know what words you gonna hear next "hey Dimitris/Dimitra happy name's day!"

You quickly stand up and move quickly from that bench and head once again to the street only to hear another random person talking to the phone "hey Dimitris/Dimitra happy name's day!" The next thing that comes into your mind is to head over to a cafeteria in order to drink your coffee quietly. As you are heading there, your eyes catch a packed shop.

What shop is this you are wondering and why so many people are there?

You move closely to the shop and realize it's a bakery/pastry full of Dimitris/Dimitra buying sweets to treat their guests and at the same time you are hearing the owner says to each on of them "hey Dimitris/Dimitra happy name's day!"

You run towards the emptiest cafeteria possible,you sit order your coffee and drink quietly enjoying your peace. 20 minutes later the place is crowded and you are surrounded by people and guess what you are hearing them say to each other or on their phones.........."hey Dimitris/Dimitra happy name's day!"

At that point you quickly nod to the waiter in order to pay and when he/she comes the words spill out of your mouth......"What's your name?".............the waiter looks you with a terrifying smile and at that time you both know the answer and outcome of the conversation......"it's Dimitris/Dimitra"............"hey Dimitris/Dimitra happy name's day!"

Now the only thing you want is to quickly run to your home and finally have a peaceful time. You run as fast as you can keeping in mind that the paradise is waiting you there!

As soon as you arrive, you jump to your bed and a feeling of happiness is all over you but as the time passes you are bored and check your facebook or instagram account only to remember that you too have some close friends or relatives named Dimitris/Dimitra and after a while you open the text screen and type to them

"hey Dimitris/Dimitra happy name's day!"

You sadly have became one of them too!

Apparently i have to nominate 2 people, the first one will be @trumpman because i insist and the second one will be @acidyo who recently followed me along with other 200-300 people :P

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