I & we all know and have heard of this before, but still take an insight and identify many of these !!!

1.
Everything you eat is savored in either garlic, onion, coconut or 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, Natasha
& Nikita, Rajesh & Rajeshwari, Shashi & Nishi, etc…)

8. All your children have pet names, which sound no
where, 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. You use plastic to cover anything new in your
house whether it's the remote control, VCR, Phone, 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 11
p.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 your 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
37. There are many more & u can list ! cause we are Indians !!!