Pretty amusing...but mostly true and interesting.
Guess at least some of
them are common globally also though...
Read this it's really cool , dont be suprised if you
can picture some
friends and relations when you read these .
You are Indian if...
1. Everything you eat is savored In garlic, onion
and tomatoes.
2. You try and reuse gift wrappers, gift boxes, and
of course aluminum foil.
3. You try to eject food particles from between your
teeth by pressing
your tongue against them and making a peculiar noise
like, tshick,
tshick, tschick, tschick.
4. You are standing next to the two largest size
suitcases at the Airport.
5. You arrive one or two hours late to a party - and
think its normal.
6. You peel the stamps off letters that the Postal
Service missed to mark up.
7. You recycle Wedding Gifts.
8. You name your children in rhythms (example, Honey
Money, madhu, wadhu, Sita &Gita, Ram & Shyam.
9. All your children have pet names, which sound
nowhere close to their
real names.
10. You take Indian snacks anywhere it says "No Food
Allowed"
11. You talk for an hour at the front door when
leaving someone's house.
12. You load up the family car with as many people
as possible.
13. You use plastic to cover anything new in your
house whether it's the
remote control, VCR, carpet or new couch.
14. Your parents tell you to not care what your
friends think but they
won't let you do certain things because of what the
other "Uncles And
Aunties" will think.
15. You buy and display crockery, which is for
special occasions, which
never happen.
16. You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen
table.
17. You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
18. You keep leftover food in your fridge in as many
numbers of bowls as possible.
19. Your kitchen shelf is full of jam jars,
varieties of bowls and
plastic utensils (got free with some household
items).
20. You carry a stash of your own food whenever you
travel (and travel means any car ride longer than 15 minutes).
21. You own a rice cooker or a pressure cooker.
22. You fight over who pays the dinner bill.
23. You majored in engineering, medicine or law and
now........are after
Software and only Software no matter which field you
belong to.
24. You live with your parents and you are 40 years
old. (And they prefer it that way).
25. You don't use measuring cups when cooking.
26. You feel like you've gotten a good deal if you
didn't pay tax.
27. You never learnt how to stand in a queue.
28. You can only travel if there are 5 persons at
least to see you off
or receive you whether you are traveling by bus,
train or plane.
29. If she is NOT your daughter, you always take
interest in knowing
whose daughter has run with whose son and feel proud
to spread it at the
velocity of more than the speed of light.
30. You only make long distance calls after 11 p.m.
31. If you don't live at home, when your parents
call, they ask if
you've eaten, even if it's midnight.
32. You call an older person you never met before
"uncle."
33. When your parents meet strangers and talk for a
few minutes, you
discover you're talking to a distant cousin.
34. Your parents don't realise phone connections to
foreign countries
have improved in the last two decades, and still
scream at the top of
their lungs when making foreign calls.
35. You have bed sheets on your sofas so as to keep
them away from getting dirty.
36. When dining out, you think Rs 10 is enough of a
tip.
37. It's embarrassing if your wedding has less than
600 people.
38. You list your daughter as "fair and slim" in
the matrimonial no matter what she looks like.
39. You treat the NRI persons (especially from
America) as if they are
the only persons living in this world (including YOU).
40. You've seen the ground while inside the lavatory
of a train.(This one really got me!! You too huh??)
41. All your tupperware is stained with food color.
42. You have drinking glasses made of steel.
43. You have mastered the art of bargaining in shopping.
44. You have really enjoyed reading this mail :-)
