Desi Habits

Got the following list as a forward. Being quite a typical desi, I do have to agree with quite a few of them

• The only reason you go to a temple on festivals is because there is free food.
• You keep comparing prices at electronics store for the phone you bought six months ago.
• You bought a Toyota or Honda car only because it has better resale value.
• You ask for a small drink at fast food restaurant because the refill is free.
• You spent 2 days cleaning your apartment before leaving so you can get full security refund from your landlord.
• You don’t know any American outside your work.
• You try to ignore all other unknown desis around you.
• You talk to Americans as if you represent your whole country.
• You frequent to yard sales every week.
• You use grocery bags as garbage bags.
• Office supplies mysteriously find their way in your house.
• You don’t want to buy a printer because you can always use the office printer.
• You decide to marry a girl/guy that your parents fixed you up with.
• You split the tax from your common grocery bill.
• You know more than one plans offered by long distance companies.
• You take plain water instead of Coke for lunch.
• You take any drink with no ice because you can’t drink ice.
• You ask before eating any meat “Is this beef?”
• You know all the facilities available at public library.
• You find taco bell sauce packets in your kitchen drawer.
• You take off your shoes before stepping foot in your living room.
• You like onion rings at Burger King.
• You are looking for dual voltage appliances and GSM cellphones
• The number of long distance calls is more than domestic calls.
• Your first name ends with kumar, bhai or ben
• You have at least one India made pressure cooker in your kitchen.
• You know how much a 7 layer burrito costs at Taco Bell.
• Put oil in your hair.
• You have a picture of Indian Deity on the dashboard of your car.
• This thought comes to you “Oh Shit I just saw another desis” when you are window shopping at a local mall.
• You are compelled to visit every major city in U.S. just so as to say that “Yes, I have been there”.
• You pay your bills the day they come in mail.
• You buy rice in the 20lb bags or larger.
• You have postponed buying answering machine because the phone you are planning to buy six months later has built-in answering machine.
• You start spelling your name to the operator like A as in Apple, B as in boy, T as in train… well you get the idea.
• You bring over the counter medicine like Iodex and Vicks from India
• You know the current differential in gold prices between India and U.S.
• Use the credit card with maximum cash back
• You have collected enough frequent flier miles for an international trip.
• You are saving more than 30% of your salary.

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