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1. You think Chowpatty & Juhu beaches as "nature."
2. You say "town " and expect everyone
to know that this means south of Churchgate.
3. You speak in a dialect of Hindi called 'Bambaiya Hindi', which only
Mumbaikars can understand
4. Your door has more than three locks.
5. Rs 500 worth of groceries fit in one paper
bag.
6. Train timings (9.27, 10.49 etc) are really important events of life.
7. You spend more time each month
travelling than you spend at home.
8. You call an 8' x 10' clustered room a Hall.
9. You're paying Rs 10,000
for a 1 room flat, the size of a walk-in closet and you think it's a "steal."
10. You have the following sets of friends:
school friends, college friends, neighborhood friends, office friends and yes, train
friends, a species unique to Mumbai.
11.
Cabbies and bus conductors think you are from Mars if you call the roads by their Indian name, they are more familiar with
Warden Road, Peddar Road, Altamount Road and the like.
12. Stock market quotes are the only other thing besides cricket
which you follow passionately.
13. The first thing that you read in the Times of India is the "Bombay Times" supplement.
14.
You take fashion seriously.
15. You're suspicious of strangers who are actually nice to you.
16. Hookers, beggars
and the homeless are invisible.
17. You compare Mumbai to New York's Manhattan instead of any other cities in India.
18.
The most frequently used part of your car is the horn.
19. You insist on calling Mumbai as Bombay, CST as VT, and Sahar
and Santacruz airports instead of Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport.
20. You consider eye contact an act of
overt aggression.
21. Your idea of personal space is no one actually standing on yourtoes.
22. Being truly alone
makes you nervous.
23. You love wading through knee deep mucky water in the monsoons, and actually call it 'romantic'.
24.
Only in Mumbai, you would get Chinese Dosa and Jain Chicken.
25. You call traffic policemen as 'Pandus" (or Mamas)
and expect of out of towners to understand that.
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