You may be missing India, when you ......

amarama · Mar 26th, 2006, 18:50

start to question which way the letter" r" really goes
sleep in your bed at an angle

stack pillows at the head of your bed so your feet hang off the edge

smell of burning garbage is apealling

start to forget which side of the road to drive on

amarama · Mar 26th, 2006, 19:01

must stop reading having heart attack...ha ha ha!

rangss · Mar 26th, 2006, 19:26

Quote:

Originally Posted by emilii

...can`t get sleep without the sound of a squeeking fan flapping over your bed

As an Indian, this is something I dread about going abroad: I really can't sleep...!

alonig · Mar 27th, 2006, 03:12

This is a great thread!!
Quote
Encourage your wife to put on weight. Get her to do the laundry in the local boating lake.

yes and then get your husband to go bang it on the rocks to wring it out!!

I want to build a shack in my garden and pretend i am back there!!
Wonderful place wonderful people

Paridelli · Mar 27th, 2006, 06:40

-Come home and cut the pole off your broom to be in the proper position to sweep the floor.
-Look panick stricken when your new neighbor tells you she is 27
and not yet married.
-Wonder why nobody asks you how much your camera costs.
-Stand on your toilet to squat and throw the paper in a small bucket.
-Paint pink polka dots on your cat

This thread made me LAUGH more than anything I read lately!

emilii · Mar 27th, 2006, 10:28

Quote:

Originally Posted by rangss

As an Indian, this is something I dread about going abroad: I really can't sleep...!

I believe you... I`ve already created an addiction in just a couple of weeks

Maybe there would be a good market for portable fans for all the millions of NRI`s

squashblossom · Apr 3rd, 2006, 19:47

when you walk along a well groomed street and visualise mud and cow pats everywhere

when you half expect the shop assistant to run after you saying 'but madam i have many colours!"

Sama · Apr 3rd, 2006, 20:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by aventura

In the summer you try to wear your nice salwaar kameez on the streets

ACK-SHULLY I AM going to wear all my cotton SKs here (i.e., white bread suburbia outside of Chicago) this summer, and really could care less about any quizzacal looks. A typical midwestern summer in my area is just as hot and humid as India, and since I usually don't wear shorts, I intend on being cool, literally and figuratively, in my SKs.....

gbb · Apr 8th, 2006, 17:05

You might be missing India when you start thinking about buying a pair of orange trousers

Sama · Apr 8th, 2006, 17:51

for me it started at the Chennai airport before I left....

I went to the washroom and automatically headed for the Indian toilet, not the western one, not even thinking about it! It felt so right!

BlueRose · Apr 10th, 2006, 04:37

Hilarious everyone!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Paridelli

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-Paint pink polka dots on your cat

and in the same spirit, you may be missing India when you...

~shave geometric designs on the family pet and put bells around their ankles and neck.
~make peanut masala and look for yesterdays newspaper to wrap it up in.
~stop to take off your shoes when you go just about anywhere.
~braid your long hair so noone thinks you are a "loose" woman, damn!
~are happy when your computer internet program has problems, cause that means calling and chatting with India for free..
~a mild earthquake wakes you and you think you are back on the train whizzing through the Indian night.
~you grab your bedsheets, TP and handsanitizer when you head out on an overnight.
~you spend your Sundays reading threads such as these instead of playing with your friends.

Oh yeah, I am missing India.....

Sama · Apr 10th, 2006, 05:29

go to a South Indian restaurant in the middle of white bread suburbia and start eating with your right hand, automatically, while everyone you're with uses the utensils (happened yesterday)

capt_mahajan · Apr 10th, 2006, 09:14

walk for an hour looking for a resteraunt in the heat in Rio with an Indian acquaintance because he is desperate to eat rice and something which looked like chicken curry.

go to copacabana with same acquaintance after this lunch and he then refuses to go to the beach because he is the only one in trousers, a full sleeved shirt and leather shoes!!

go to see Christ the Redeemer and the same guy after the beach and he is looking at the girls who are looking at the Redeemer.

sit at Philadelphia train station and think maybe there is no train to New York today because if so, then where's everybody??

go for a walk in a New York suburb and get lost and cant find anybody on foot to get directions from.

a girl in Rotterdam gives you directions in slow, deliberate and patronising English, even though your English is much better

find the rest of the world too damn quiet!!

Casey · Apr 11th, 2006, 07:32

Walk around piles of dirt at home and think fondly of dodging elephant crap.

pillimosan · May 17th, 2006, 21:03

...when you go into your favourite pub, sit on the floor, religiously fill up your chillum and ask matches to the pub's owner

...when you say "ok no problem" to an italian barmaid (I did it more than once!)

Mar 27th, 2006, 03:12	#259
alonig Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: ENGLAND Posts: 106	india This is a great thread!! Quote Encourage your wife to put on weight. Get her to do the laundry in the local boating lake. yes and then get your husband to go bang it on the rocks to wring it out!! I want to build a shack in my garden and pretend i am back there!! Wonderful place wonderful people

Mar 27th, 2006, 06:40	#260
Paridelli Member Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Paris Posts: 3	You may be missing India when you... -Come home and cut the pole off your broom to be in the proper position to sweep the floor. -Look panick stricken when your new neighbor tells you she is 27 and not yet married. -Wonder why nobody asks you how much your camera costs. -Stand on your toilet to squat and throw the paper in a small bucket. -Paint pink polka dots on your cat This thread made me LAUGH more than anything I read lately!

Apr 10th, 2006, 05:29	#267
Sama a pain in the asana Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: the India inside my heart Posts: 5,203	you may be missing India when you.... go to a South Indian restaurant in the middle of white bread suburbia and start eating with your right hand, automatically, while everyone you're with uses the utensils (happened yesterday)

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Sama a pain in the asana Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: the India inside my heart Posts: 5,203	for me it started at the Chennai airport before I left.... I went to the washroom and automatically headed for the Indian toilet, not the western one, not even thinking about it! It felt so right!

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capt_mahajan (in charge of navel affairs) Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: India Posts: 9,724	walk for an hour looking for a resteraunt in the heat in Rio with an Indian acquaintance because he is desperate to eat rice and something which looked like chicken curry. go to copacabana with same acquaintance after this lunch and he then refuses to go to the beach because he is the only one in trousers, a full sleeved shirt and leather shoes!! go to see Christ the Redeemer and the same guy after the beach and he is looking at the girls who are looking at the Redeemer. sit at Philadelphia train station and think maybe there is no train to New York today because if so, then where's everybody?? go for a walk in a New York suburb and get lost and cant find anybody on foot to get directions from. a girl in Rotterdam gives you directions in slow, deliberate and patronising English, even though your English is much better find the rest of the world too damn quiet!!

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Casey Maha Guru Member Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Ottawa, Canada Posts: 625	Walk around piles of dirt at home and think fondly of dodging elephant crap.

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