Indians are like this.... only so true, so very
true..........
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 are always standing next to the two largest size
suitcases at the Airport.
4. You arrive one or two hours late to a party - and think
it's normal.
5. You peel the stamps off letters that the Postal Service
missed to stamp.
6. You recycle Wedding Gifts, Birthday Gifts and
Anniversary Gifts.
7. You name your children in rhythms (example, Sita &
Gita, Ram & Shyam, Kamini & Shamini..)
8. All your children
have pet names, which sound nowhere,
close to their real names.
9. You take Indian snacks anywhere it says 'No Food
Allowed.'
10. You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving
someone's house.
11.. You load up the family car with as many people as
possible.
12. HIGH PRIORITY ***** You use plastic to cover anything
new in your house
whether it's the remote control, VCR, carpet or new
couch. *****
13. Your parents tell you not to care what your friends
think, but they won't let you do certain things because
of what the other 'Uncles and Aunties' will think..
14. You buy and display crockery, which is never used, as
it is for special occasions, which never happen.
15. You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table.
16.. You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
17. You keep leftover food in your fridge in as many
numbers of bowls as possible.
18. Your kitchen shelf is full
of jars, varieties of bowls and plastic utensils (got free
with purchase of other stuff)
19. You carry a stash of your own food whenever you travel
(and travel means any car ride longer than 15 minutes).
20. You own a rice cooker or a pressure cooker.
21. You fight over who pays the dinner bill.
22. You live with your parents and you are 40 years old.
(And they prefer it that way).
23. You don't use measuring cups when cooking.
24. You never learnt how to stand in a queue.
25.. 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.
26. 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.
27. You only make long distance calls after 11p.m.
28. If you don't live at home, when your
parents call, they ask if you've eaten, even if
it's midnight.
29. You call an older person you never met before Uncle or
Aunty.
30. When your parents meet strangers and talk for a few
minutes, you discover you're talking to a distant
cousin.
31. Your parents don't realize 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.
32.. You have bed sheets on your sofas so as to keep them
from getting dirty.
33. Its embarrassing if you're wedding has less than
600 people.
34. All your Tupperware is stained with food color.
35. You have drinking glasses made of steel.
36. You have mastered the art of bargaining in shopping.
I STILL LOVE TO BE AN INDIAN ...hum to esse hii hai
bhaiyaa!!!!!!!!!!:)
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