I got an email about Sri lankans. Check this out.
1. Everything you eat is savored in garlic,onion and tomatoes.
2. You try and reuse gift wrappers, gift boxes, and of course aluminum
foil.
3. You are Always standing next to the two largest size suitcases at
the Airport.
4. You arrive one or two hours late to a party and think it's normal.
5. You peel the stamps off letters that the Postal Service missed to
stamp.
6. You recycle Wedding Gifts , Birthday Gifts and Anniversary Gifts.
7. You name your children in rhythms (example Sita & Gita, Gamini &
Shamini.)
8. All your children have pet names, which sound nowhere close to
their real names.
9. You take Indian snacks anywhere it says "No Food Allowed"
10. You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house.
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11. You load up the family
car with as many people as possible
12. You use plastic to cover anything new in your house whether it's
the remote control, VCR, carpet or new couch.
13. Your parents tell you not to care what your friends think, but
they won't let you do certain things because of what the other "Uncles
and Aunties" will think.
14. You buy and display crockery, which is never used , as it is for
special occasions, which never happen.
15. You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table.
16. You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
17. You keep leftover food in your fridge in as many n umbers of bowls
as possible.
18. Your kitchen shelf is full of jars, varieties of bowls and plastic
utensils (got free with purchase of other stuff )
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 fight over who pays the dinner bill.
22. You live with your parents and you are 40 years old. ( And they
prefer it that way).
23. You don't use measuring cups when cooking.
24. You never learnt how to stand in a queue.
25. You can only travel if there are 5 persons at least to see you off
or receive you whether you are traveling by bus,train or plane.
26. If she is NOT your daughter, you always take interest in knowing
whose daughter has run with whose son and feel proud to spread it at the velocity of more than the speed of light.
27. You only make long distance calls after 11p.m.
28. If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they ask if
you've eaten, even if it's midnight .
29. You call an older person you
never met before Uncle or Aunty."
30. When your parents meet strangers and talk for a few minutes, you discover you're talking to a distant cousin.
31. Your parents don't realize phone connections to foreign countries
have improved in the last two decades, and still scream at the top of
their lungs when making foreign calls.
32. You have bed sheets on your sofas so as to keep them from getting
dirty.
33. It's embarrassing if your wedding has less than 600 people.
34. All your Tupperware is stained with food color.
35. You have drinking glasses made of steel.
36. You have mastered the art of bargaining in shopping.
37. You have really enjoyed reading this mail - forward it to as many
Sri Lankans as possible
1. Everything you eat is savored in garlic,onion and tomatoes.
2. You try and reuse gift wrappers, gift boxes, and of course aluminum
foil.
3. You are Always standing next to the two largest size suitcases at
the Airport.
4. You arrive one or two hours late to a party and think it's normal.
5. You peel the stamps off letters that the Postal Service missed to
stamp.
6. You recycle Wedding Gifts , Birthday Gifts and Anniversary Gifts.
7. You name your children in rhythms (example Sita & Gita, Gamini &
Shamini.)
8. All your children have pet names, which sound nowhere close to
their real names.
9. You take Indian snacks anywhere it says "No Food Allowed"
10. You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house.
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11. You load up the family
car with as many people as possible
12. You use plastic to cover anything new in your house whether it's
the remote control, VCR, carpet or new couch.
13. Your parents tell you not to care what your friends think, but
they won't let you do certain things because of what the other "Uncles
and Aunties" will think.
14. You buy and display crockery, which is never used , as it is for
special occasions, which never happen.
15. You have a vinyl tablecloth on your kitchen table.
16. You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
17. You keep leftover food in your fridge in as many n umbers of bowls
as possible.
18. Your kitchen shelf is full of jars, varieties of bowls and plastic
utensils (got free with purchase of other stuff )
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 fight over who pays the dinner bill.
22. You live with your parents and you are 40 years old. ( And they
prefer it that way).
23. You don't use measuring cups when cooking.
24. You never learnt how to stand in a queue.
25. You can only travel if there are 5 persons at least to see you off
or receive you whether you are traveling by bus,train or plane.
26. If she is NOT your daughter, you always take interest in knowing
whose daughter has run with whose son and feel proud to spread it at the velocity of more than the speed of light.
27. You only make long distance calls after 11p.m.
28. If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they ask if
you've eaten, even if it's midnight .
29. You call an older person you
never met before Uncle or Aunty."
30. When your parents meet strangers and talk for a few minutes, you discover you're talking to a distant cousin.
31. Your parents don't realize phone connections to foreign countries
have improved in the last two decades, and still scream at the top of
their lungs when making foreign calls.
32. You have bed sheets on your sofas so as to keep them from getting
dirty.
33. It's embarrassing if your wedding has less than 600 people.
34. All your Tupperware is stained with food color.
35. You have drinking glasses made of steel.
36. You have mastered the art of bargaining in shopping.
37. You have really enjoyed reading this mail - forward it to as many
Sri Lankans as possible
