**IF YOU ARE FROM SOUTH ASIAN SUBCOTINENT (i.e. India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) **
**1. Everything you eat is savored in garlic, onion and tomatoes. **
**2. You try and reuse gift wrappers, gift boxes, and of course
aluminium 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 it’s
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, 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 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. **
**15. You buy and display crockery, which is for special occasions,
which never happen. **
**16. You use grocery bags to hold garbage. **
**17. Your kitchen shelf is full of jam jars, varieties of bowls and
plastic utensils (got free with some household items). **
**18. You fight over who pays the dinner bill. **
**19. You live with your parents and you are 40 years old.(And they
prefer it that way). **
**20. You never learnt how to stand in a queue. **
**21. You can only travel if there are 5 persons at least to see you
off or receive you whether you are travelling by bus, train or
airplane. **
**22. You only make long distance calls after 11 p.m. **
**23. You call an older person you never met before “uncle.” **
**24. When your parents meet strangers and talk for a few minutes, you
discover you’re talking to a distant cousin whom you have never met. **
**25. Your parents still scream at the top of their lungs when making
foreign calls. As if they do not shout there voice wont reach the
other end. **
**26. You have bed sheets on your sofas so as to keep them from
getting dirty. **
**27. It’s embarrassing if your wedding has less than 800 people. **
**28. You have drinking glasses made of steel. **
**29. You have mastered the art of bargaining in shopping. **
**30. You have really enjoyed reading this mail - forward it to as
many subcontinent friends as possible. **
**chalein aab jaldi se shabash yeh bataein k aap mein iis mein se kitni ACHAIYAN hain 
**