* Everything you eat is savoured with garlic, onions and chillies.

* You try and re-use gift wrappers, gift boxes, and of course aluminium
foil.
 
* 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's normal.

* You peel the stamps off letters that the Postal Service missed to
stamp.
 
* Your toilet has a plastic bowl next to the commode.
 
* All your children have pet names, which sound nowhere close to their
real names.
 
* 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's the
remote control, VCR, carpet or new couch .

* You live with your parents even if you are 40 years old. (And they
like it that way).
 
* If she is NOT your daughter, you always take interest in knowing whose
daughter has run with whose son and feel it's your duty to spread the
word.
 
* You only make long distance calls after 11pm.
 
* If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they ask if you've
eaten, even if it's midnight.
 
* When your parents meet Indian for the first time and talk for a few
minutes, you soon discover they are your relatives.
 
* 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 while talking.
 
* You have bed sheets on your sofas so as to keep them from getting
dirty.
 
* It's embarrassing if your wedding has less than 600 people.
 
* You list your daughter as "fair and slim" in the matrimonial no matter
what she looks like.
 
* You're always interested to know/interfere in others' personal
matters, what they are doing, where they are going, etc.
 
* You have really enjoyed reading this mail because you know some,
or most of them, applies to you!