HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU ARE AN INDIAN?

Everything You Eat Is Sautied In Garlic, Onion And Tomatoes

You Try And Reuse Gift Wrappers, Gift Boxes, And Of Course Aluminum
Foil.

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.

You Are Standing Next To The Two Largest Size Suitcases At The Airport

You Arrive One Or Two Hours Late To A Party - And Think It Is Norm

You Peel The Stamps Off Letters That The Postal Service Missed To Mark
Up.

You stuff your pockets with napkins from the last restaurant you ate
at.

You Recycle Wedding Gifts

You Take Indian Snacks Anywhere It Says "No Food Allowed"

You Talk For An Hour At The Front Door When Leaving Someone's House

You Load Up The Family Car With As Many People As Possible.

You Use Plastic to Cover Anything New In Your
House Whether It Is the Remote Control, VCR, Carpet Or New Couch.

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 Aunts" Will Think.

YOU KNOW YOU ARE AN INDIAN WHEN-----

1. You unwrap Christms gifts very carefully, so you can save and
re-use the wrapping (and especially those bows) next year.

2. When there is a sale on toilet paper, you buy 100 rolls and store
them in your closet or in the bedroom of an adult child
who has moved out.

3. You have a vinyl table cloth on your kitchen table.

4. You use grocery bags to hold garbage.

5. You have Tupperware in your fridge with three bites of rice or
one leftover chicken wing.

6. You don't own any real Tupperware-only a cupboard full of used,
but carefully rinsed, margarine tubs, takeout containers, and jam
jars.

7. You carry a stash of your own food whenever you travel (and
travel means any car ride longer than 15 minutes).

8. You own a rice cooker or a pressure cooker.

9. You fight over who pays the dinner bill.

10. You majored in engineering, medicine or law.

11. You live with your parents and you are 30 years old. (And they
prefer it that way).

12. If you're married and 30 years old, you live in the apartment
nextdoor to your parents, or at least in the same neighborhood.

13. You don't use measuring cups.

14. You feel like you've gotten a good deal if you didn't pay tax.

15. Your parents' house is always cold.

16. You reuse teabags.

17. You only make long distance calls after 11p.m.

18. If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they ask if
you've eaten, even if it's midnight.

19. Your parents never go to the movies.

20. You call an older person you never met before "uncle."

21. When your parents meet strangers and talk for a few minutes,
you think u are talking to your cousin.

22. No one you're related to is a music major.

23. You avoid motels, especially if there is an acquaintance within
a 250 mile radius of your destination.

24. You sleep on their floor.

25. 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

26. You have bedsheets on your sofas.

27. When dining out, your parents think $1 is enough of a tip.

28. You know someone who owns a motel or a convenience store.

29. It's embarrassing if your wedding has less than 600 people.

30. You list your daughter as "fair and slim" in the matrimonial no
matter what she looks like.

31. You've seen the ground while inside the lavatory of a train.

32. All your Tupperware is stained with food color.

33. You have drinking glasses made of steel, the rim of which can
cut your
mouth if you're not careful.

34. You have a plastic rug-runner going down your hallway at home.

35. There's a pungent odor of spices as one enters your home.

31. You've seen the ground while inside the lavatory of a train.


This is the funniest

-----------------------------------------------------------------
We will find a way or we will make one

Quote:

---

Orginally posted by shanbhog

HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU ARE AN INDIAN?

---