How to know if u r an Indian...

Ways to know whether you are Indian or not. Read this. It's really cool; don’t be surprised if you can picture yourself, some friends or relatives 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.

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 it is normal.

6. You recycle Gifts.

7. You name your children in rhythms (example, Honey & Money, Ram & Shyam).

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 use plastic to cover anything new in your house whether it's the remote
control, VCR, carpet or new couch.

12. You buy and display expensive crockery, which is for special occasions, which
never happen.

13. You have a vinyl tablecloth on your dining table.

14. You use grocery bags to hold garbage.

15. You keep leftover food in your fridge in as many numbers of bowls as possible.

16. Your kitchen shelf is full bowls and plastic utensils (got free with some
household items).

17. With friends or relatives, you fight over who pays the dinner bill.

18. You majored in Mechanical or Chemical or Instrumentation or Civil engineering,
Medicine or Commerce or Architecture and now.......you are after Software and
only Software no matter which field you are originally from.

19. You live with your parents and you are already 30 years old. (And they prefer it
that way).

20. You feel like you've gotten a good deal if you didn't pay tax or buy things on
Sale .

21. You never learnt how to stand in a queue.

22. 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.

23. 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.

24. You only make long distance calls after 11 p.m.

25. If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they ask if you've eaten,
even if it's midnight .

26. You call an older person you never met before "uncle."

27. When your parents meet strangers and talk for a few minutes, you discover you're
talking to a distant cousins.

28. 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.

29. You have bed sheets on your sofas so as to keep them away from getting dirty.

30. When dining out, you think 10 Rupees or equivalent is enough of a tip.

31. Its embarrassing if you or your family member’s wedding has less than 500 people.

32. You list your daughter as "fair and slim" in the matrimonial no matter how she
looks like.

33. All your plastic ware is stained with food color.

34. You have drinking glasses made of steel.

35. You have mastered the art of bargaining in shopping and you always bargain no
matter what.

36. You have really enjoyed reading this strip.