ATypicalDesi

A Typical Desi

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1. You unwrap Christmas gifts very carefully, so you can save and reuse the wrapping (and especially those bows) next year.
2. You only buy Christmas cards after Christmas, when they are 50% off.
3. When there is a sale on toilet paper, you buy 100 rolls and store them in your closet or in the bedroom of an adult child who has moved out.
4. You have a vinyl table cloth on your kitchen table.
5. Your stove is covered with aluminum foil
6. Your kitchen has a sticky film of grease over it.
7. You use the dishwasher as a dish rack.
8. You have never used your dishwasher.
9. You eat all meals in the kitchen.
10. You save grocery bags, tin foil, and tin containers.
11. You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
12. You always leave your shoes at the door.
13. You hate to waste food.
14. You don't own any real Tupperware -- only a cupboard full of used, but carefully rinsed, margarine tubs, takeout containers,and jam jars.
15. You have a collection of miniature shampoo bottles that you take every time you stay in a hotel.
16. The condiments in your fridge are either Price-Club/Sam's sized or come in plastic packets, which you save/steal everytime you get take-out or go to McDonalds.
17. Ditto paper napkins.
18. You never order room service.
19. You carry a stash of your own food whenever you travel (and travel means any car ride longer than 15 minutes).
20. You own a rice cooker or a pressure cooker.
21. You wash your rice at least 2-3 times before cooking it.
22. You fight over who pays the dinner bill.
23. You majored in engineering, medicine or law.
24. When you go to a dance party, there are a wall of guys surrounding the dance floor trying to look cool.
25. You live with your parents and you are 30 years old. (And they prefer it that way).
26. You don't use measuring cups.
27. You feel like you've gotten a good deal if you didn't pay tax.
28. Your parents' house is always cold.
29. You reuse teabags.
30. You have a drawer full of old pens, most of which don't write anymore.
31. You always look phone numbers up in the phone book, since calling information costs 50 cents.
32. You only make long distance calls after 11p.m.
33. You have acquired a taste for bitter gourd.
34. You like your meat well done.
35. If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they ask if you've eaten, even if it's midnight.
36. Your parents never go to the movies.
37. Your parents send money to their relatives in foreign countries.
38. Your parents use a clothes line.
39. You've joined a CD club at least once.
40. You know someone who you think can get you a good deal on jewelry or electronics.
41. You never discuss your love life or sex with your parents.
42. Your parents are never happy with your grades.
43. You save your old coke bottle glasses even though you're never going to use them again.
44. You keep used batteries.
45. You keep most of your money in a savings account.
46. You call an older person you never met before "uncle."
47. The first thing uncle asks you is "where are your parents from?"
48. When your parents meet strangers and talk for a few minutes, you discover you're talking to a distant cousin.
49. You've been asked if you are a Hindu or if you speak Hindi
50. Your parents buy Sears/Montgomery Ward appliances believing they are the best.