25 things that prove you're a Bombayite......
I. 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 Bombayites
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 walk-in closet and
you think it's a "steal."
10. You have the following sets of friends: schoolfriends, college friends,
neighborhood friends, office friends and yes, TRAIN friends, a species unique
only in Bombay.
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 ......
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 Bombay to New York's Manhattan instead of any other cities of
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 when no one is 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 Bombay, you would get Chinese Dosa and Jain Chicken.
25. You call traffic policemen as'Pandus" and expect out-of-towners to understand
that.