You are Indian if...
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>1. Everything you eat is savored In garlic, onion and tomatoes.
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>2. You try and reuse gift wrappers, gift boxes, and of course
>aluminum foil.
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>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.
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>4. You are standing next to the two largest size suitcases at the
>Airport.
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>5. You arrive one or two hours late to a party - and think its
>normal.
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>6. You peel the stamps off letters that the Postal Service missed
>to mark up.
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>7. You recycle Wedding Gifts.
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>8. You name your children in rhythms (example, Honey & Money, Sita
>& Gita, Ram & Shyam.)
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>9. All your children have pet names, which sound nowhere close to
>their real names.
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>10. You take Indian snacks anywhere it says "No Food Allowed"
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>11. You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's
>house.
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>12. You load up the family car with as many people as possible.
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>13. You use plastic to cover anything new in your house whether
>it's the remote control, VCR, carpet or new couch.
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>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.
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>15. You buy and display crockery, which is for special occasions,
>which never happen.
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>16. You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table.
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>17. You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
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>18. You keep leftover food in your fridge in as many numbers of
>bowls as possible.
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>19. Your kitchen shelf is full of jam jars, varieties of bowls and
>plastic utensils (got free with some household items).
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>20. You carry a stash of your own food whenever you travel (and
>travel means any car ride longer than 15 minutes).
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>21. You own a rice cooker or a pressure cooker.
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>22. You fight over who pays the dinner bill.
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>23. You majored in engineering, medicine or law and now........are
>after Software and only Software no matter which field you belong
>to.
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>24. You live with your parents and you are 40 years old. (And they
>prefer it that way).
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>25. You don't use measuring cups when cooking.
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>26. You feel like you've gotten a good deal if you didn't pay
>tax.
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>27. You never learnt how to stand in a queue.
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>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.
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>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.
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>30. You only make long distance calls after 11 p.m.
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>31. If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they ask if
>you've eaten, even if it's midnight.
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>32. You call an older person you never met before "uncle."
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>33. When your parents meet strangers and talk for a few minutes,
>you discover you're talking to a distant cousin.
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>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.
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>35. You have bed sheets on your sofas so as to keep them away from
>getting dirty.
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>36. When dining out, you think Rs 10 is enough of a tip.
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>37. It's embarrassing if your wedding has less than 600 people.
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>38. You list your daughter as "fair and slim" in the matrimonial
>no matter what she looks like.
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>39. You treat the NRI persons (especially from America) as if they
>are the only persons living in this world (including YOU).
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>40. You've seen the ground while inside the lavatory of a train.
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>41. All your tupperware is stained with food color.
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>42. You have drinking glasses made of steel.
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>43. You have mastered the art of bargaining in shopping.
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>44. You have really enjoyed reading this post.