Tuesday, May 29, 2007

We are Indian brothers if …

  • Your mother is so modern and understanding that you won’t ever let your current modern heart throb know that this particular woman is your mother.
  • Your dad is some sort of engineer or doctor or a government employee who took atleats 15years of service to buy a 2nd hand maruti car.
  • Your parents tried to get you into places half-price saying you were 12 when you were really 15.
  • You ask your parents help on one math problem and 2 hours later they're still lecturing.
  • You have a 40kgs bag of rice in your kitchen.
  • The more aged your relatives are more badly the fart in the public
  • You’ve had a bowl haircut at one point in your life.
  • Your parents enjoy comparing you to their friends' kids or your cousins doing wonders abroad.
  • You’ve learned to keep bargaining even if the prices are rock bottom.
  • you know what's going to happen in every Hindi movie before it happens
  • You’ve never got those little red envelopes around February and if you got it, its still there intact after 12 years.
  • Piles of shoes tend to make it hard to open the front, back doors.
  • Your father and grandfathers have hair on their ears
  • Idiot people try to impress you with pathetic imitation of foreign languages
  • At least one family member wears black wire/plastic frame glasses
  • your relatives' houses smell like incense, mothballs or both
  • You like Rs75/- movies...you like Rs25/- movies even more.
  • Your parents insist you marry within your Caste.
  • You either really, really want to go to USA or really, really want to stay away from it
  • Your parents have never kissed you nor have you ever seen them kissing each other
  • Your mothers world is centered around "Kanta Bai" and watching "Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi"
  • Your dad wears a torn vest
  • You paint your Outer boundary with gods so that no one urinates on your wall
  • Teen age sex is the word you heard when you were in your 20's
  • "You want a stereo!" When I was your age, I didn't even have shoes!!" that’s the reply you get from your father
  • Atleast one person you know in your family who studied under street lights and came up in life
  • You have to call just about all your parent's friends "Auntie and Uncle."
  • You have 12+ aunts and uncles from both your mother's and your father's side
  • At expensive restaurants, you order a delicious glass of water for your beverage and NEVER order dessert never ever feeling comfortable till you are out under sun.
  • Your parents simply cut the rotten part off the fruit and serve it on the table
  • The vast majority of the people related to you wear glasses. Thick glasses.
  • You get nothing if you do well in school, but crapped on if you don't
  • Your family owns a tennis racquet and you feel you are modern within your friend circle.
  • You will most likely be taller than your parents.
  • The furniture in your house never matches the wallpaper, the carpet, the decorations or any of the rest of the furniture.
  • Do whatever your father will always find you lesser student than him
  • Your parents bought you clothes and shoes many sizes too big so you can "grow into it" and wear it for years to come."
  • Your dad’s scooter never starts before you kick it for 30 times and bend it to 15 degrees.
  • in your workplace when foreign delegates visit your office you turn the world upside down to please them

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