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We know everything and are always right. This is a scientifically proven fact, so don't try and get around it. This is the most important G.E.T. rule.

We answer a question with another question or a reply that has nothing to do with the original question asked.

We are no respecters of time, we make our own time keeping rules and will turn up - or not - when we damn well please. In fact, while allocating to the rest of the world just 24 hours in the day, God in his infinite wisdom gave Ghanaians 36 hours - well, you'd think so if our time keeping attitude is anything to go by.

As any Ghanaian will happily tell you, 'The man who made time made plenty of it.'

The surest way to test your popularity in Ghana is to keel over and die. We love funerals, and on the entertainment scale, it gives churchgoing a real run for its money.
A death - even if we didn't know the person while they were alive - gives us a chance to dress up, boogie and chop takeaway, make friends or hook up with friends we haven't seen in ages.

We use the words 'lend me' to mean 'give me and I'll return it when I feel like it.' If you have the audacity to ask for you things back before we want to return them, we will get offended.

We don't like to say 'No.'

Whatever your request, we prefer to use words such as 'Yes,' 'We'll see,' 'No problem,' 'Go and come,' or any other combination of words that doesn't include the dreaded 'No.' The fact that the result is often the embodiment of 'No' is neither here nor there as long as we don't use the 'No' word.

Honesty is a crime, especially if it's something we don't want hear. A nice lie is more palatable and no one will call you a liar - except behind your back - because we don't want to offend you. We are too nice a people for that!

 We rarely listen to anything properly, but we give a good impression that you have our full attention. We seldom ask for clarification when we don't understand something and will go on to do what we think you said, or, more specifically, what we wanted to do all along.
After all, a Ghanaian can never be wrong. NEVER! Never, I say. NEVER!!!

Ghana has the largest police force in the world. About 20 million. We are the moral police and feel we have the right to butt into your business and dish out advice, especially, when unwanted.