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* Your house
smells like fried onions.
* When you tell your parents you got 98%, and they ask you what happened
to the other two percent.
* There is a sale on any item, you buy 100 of them.
* You make tea in a saucepan.
* You never buy bin bags, but use your saved grocery bags for it.
* You put your clothes in suitcases instead of wardrobes.
* You have a 'Singer Brother' sewing machine at home.
* Your mother has a minor disagreement with her sister and doesn't
talk to her for ten years.
* You call an older person you've never met before "uncle".
* You hide everything from your parents.
* Your mother does everything for you if you are male.
* You do all the housework and cooking if you are female.
* Your relatives alone could populate a small city.
* Everyone is a family friend.
* Everyone always called you for help on homework.
* You study law, medicine or engineering at university.
* You were thick so you studied computer science or business instead.
* You know no one who has studied music.
* You went to a university as far away from home as possible.
* You still came back home to live with your parents after you had
finished.
* Your best friend got married at the age of 18.
* You only make telephone calls after 6pm.
* You like the meat well done.
* You eat onions with everything.
* You use chilli sauce instead of tomato ketchup.
* You fight over who pays the dinner bill.
* You say you hate Indian films(/songs) but secretly watch(/hear)
them with your parents.
* You teach Westerners swearwords in your language.
* You order Indian food in your own language to impress the people
you're with but the waiters don't understand you.
* You avoid public places when with a member of the opposite sex,
especially if there is an acquaintance within a 250 miles radius.
* You always say "open the light" instead of "turn
the light on".
* You secure your baggage with a rope.
* You're walking out of customs with your trolley at the airport and
you see all twenty-five members of your family who have come to pick
you up.
* You get very upset when airlines refuse to accept your luggage which
is just 80 lbs. overweight.
* You go back to your parents' country and people treat you like a
member of the royal family.
* You ask your dad a simple question and he tells you story of how
he had to walk miles barefoot just to get to school.
* Your Dad drives a Nissan.
* You're rich so he drives a Mercedes. |
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