YOU ARE INDIAN IF.........

1. Everything you eat is savored in garlic, onion and tomatoes.
2. You try and reuse gift wrappers, gift boxes, and of course aluminum 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 its normal. You even enjoy being late (and refer to it as "IST -Indian Stretchable Time")
6. Your wife believes in hoarding Gold and uses it once in a lifetime.
7. You peel the stamps off letters that the Postal Service missed to mark up.
8. You recycle and regift wedding gifts.
9. You name your children in rhythms (example: Sita & Gita, Ram & Shyam.)
10. All your children have pet names, which sound nowhere close to their real names.
11. You take Indian snacks anywhere it says "No Food Allowed".
12. You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house.
13. You load up the family car with as many people as possible.
14. You use plastic to cover anything new in your house whether it's the remote control, VCR, carpet or new couch.
15. 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.
16. You buy and display crockery, which is for special occasions, which never happen.
17. You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table.
18. You use grocery plastic bags to hold garbage.
19. You keep leftover food in your fridge in as many numbers of bowls as possible.
20. Your kitchen shelf is full of jam and pickle bottles, varieties of bowls and plastic utensils (got free with some household items).
21. You carry a stash of your own food whenever you travel (and travel means any
    car ride longer than 15 minutes).
22. You own a rice cooker or a pressure cooker.
23. You fight over who pays the dinner bill.
24. You majored in engineering, medicine or law and now are after software and only software, no matter, which field you, belong to.
25. You live with your parents and you are 40 years old (and they prefer it that way).
26. You don't use measuring cups when cooking.
27. You feel like you've gotten a good deal if you didn't pay tax.
28. You never learnt how to stand in a queue.
29. 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.
30. 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.
31. You only make long distance calls after 11 pm.
32. If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they ask if you've eaten, even if it's Midnight.
33. When your parents meet strangers and talk for a few minutes, you discover you're talking to a distant cousin.
34. 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.
35. You have bed sheets on your sofas so as to keep them away from getting dirty.
36. When dining out, you think $0.25 is enough of a tip.
37. It's embarrassing if your wedding has less than 600 people.
38. List your daughter as "fair and slim" in the matrimonial no matter what she looks like.
39. All your tupperware is stained with food color.
40. You have drinking tumblers made of steel.
41. You have mastered the art of bargaining in shopping.
42. You have really enjoyed reading this mail.