If you lose a pound, you dwell upon it for more then 5 minutes.
Your parents own a restaurant, grocery store, or dry cleaner but YOU have to be a doctor, lawyer, or engineer.
You'll squeeze a toothpaste tube down to paper thin.
You'll have learned about sex from someone other then your parents.
You've never seen your parents kiss or hug.
Your parents have never kissed you
Your parents still tried to get you into places half-price saying you were 12 when you were really 15
Your parents enjoy comparing you to their friends' kids.
Your parents expect you'll be best friends with any one off the street in any given area as long as they are Asian
Your parents want to live with you when they are old.You take anything that's free - even if just to cover your desk drawers.
"You want a stereo?! When I was your age, I didn't even have shoes!!"
You have to call just about all your parent's friends "Auntie and Uncle"
You get nothing if you do well in school, but crapped on if you don't
The furniture in your house never matches the wallpaper, the carpet, the decorations, or any of the rest of the furniture
Your family owns butcher knives bigger than your head
You take anything that's free
Your parents tell you about how long it took for them to get to school, how horrible the weather was in their native country, and how much they still appreciated going
Your parents buy you clothes and shoes many sizes too big so you can "grow into it" and wear it for years to come.
Your parents have no concept of bacteria or food poisoning.
You ask your parents help on one math problem and 2 hours later they're still lecturing
You have a 40 lb. bag of tilda basmati rice in your pantry
An Asian woman is in school and people ask: "Is that your mother?" Well then, "Is it your sister?"
