[nukkad] Bombayite ki chhaap !

[Ninad Chhaya <ninad@bom4.vsnl.net.in>]

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25 things that prove you're a Bombayite......

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 your
     toes.

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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