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

Yaffa

. spending most hot nights on your (western style) terrace / burning your feet on the shingles and rolling off due to the steep pitch

· blowing up several microwave ovens at work while trying to warm up your tiffin box lunch

· while throwing back a bottle of coca cola at the mall / people stop and stare at you / amazed at how the stream of coke comes from the bottle through the air and into your mouth

· whenever you try to get a clerk’s attention at a crowded store you immediately take out a dollar bill / wave it around and yell “Hey Bi…Bi…Hey Bi!”

· turn off the A.C. in the car / roll down the windows / and wish the crowded expressway was just a little more noisy and smelly

· call the “A.C.” / “A.C. “

· your downtown / your late meeting friends (as usual) / you rush out the office building door and into the street / you immediately shout “Auto!!!Auto!!!”

Juberry

- when you start looking for jobs in India
- when the taxi driver you get when you return home says you have an accent and you wobble your head and he is Indian and knows!
- when you start emails with Namaste
- When you wear Indian clothes to work and everywhere else you go
- when all you do is daydream about going back
- when you refer to your guru!
- when you talk to almost every Indian stranger you can and start talking with an accent - not so they understand but so you feel better
- when you think your own country is far too clean and organsied
- when you dont mind waiting in line, be it on the phone or at the train station
- when the bus driver tells you he cant overload the bus and you dont understand at all.
- when you start complaining about how much taxis cost at home
- when you miss negotiating for everything and anything
- when you just miss the madness and the peace that India gives you - what a special place.

kohinoor

When you chew aniseeds just for the taste and memory,
not for having had a lunch or dinner.

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- Om is where the Art is -

lez

When you are always saying to your mates;

"Do you know how many Rupees that is"?

New-South-Welshman

You start mugging people with cricket bats, and not baseball bats.

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Mr. Burns "Non-violence never solved anything!"

Sama

when you refuse to buy stuff in the US that's made in India (clothes, purses, etc.) because you know how much it REALLY costs!

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My India, 2005-2008

mekkanikal

Ha..
I love this one "You tell taxi drivers you've been in the UK....."
lol..

I might b missing India when:-
:- watching "Rang De Basanti" makes me want to kill one of our politicians for all the corruption.. (wont really kill though!)

:- I mix whiskey with coke in my coke bottle to take with me to a concert...so the cops don't catch me for usage of alcohol.

:- I think Delhi is so polluted that it could prevent me from making a trip back home.

:- I hear a pressure cooker whistle blow every night from neighbour's house.

:- when I pass by an Indian kitchen smelling of Butter Chicken..

:- when I log onto indiamike to know how much u guys are interested in India.

mekkanikal

That made me feel bad

Sama

When you buy a Vijay DVD just to see the Chennai street scenes

(yah, really, I bought one the other day...in an Indian grocery store, the only one around me within 10 miles! and I negotiated the price! )

Jasmin

isn't it true though?

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'Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome' - S. Johnson

robotvoice

bathroom related:

...you think of toitet paper users as frivolous

...you wash your laundry in a bucket

...your measuring cups are no longer kept in the kitchen

...you knock the tile out of your bathroom floor and install a drainhole

food related:

...you forget to tip the waiter

...you eat your spaggetti with your hands

...you ask if certain menu items are "possible"

hellesangel

You (a man) go to work in a skirt which you periodically roll back up again.

bharatindia

...when you get your long dreamt Indian visa, you are in an...Indian restaurant in Hong Kong and you suddenly show your passport with the visa (like a big triumph) to the waiter, who is, of course, an Indian... (it happened yesterday!)
...well, being in Hong Kong, you talk to ANY Indian on the street and you get to know all Indian communities in town, exchanging e-mail addresses and boasting that you will soon go to India!
... and everything that everybody said before...
Signed,

MissingIndiabeforegettingthere symptom

04274108

When you spend Sunday afternoons watching 4 hours of Bollywood movies that don't have subtitles.

04274108

You close your eyes and inhale deeply when a diesel car pulls up beside you and idles.