You Know you are from Mumbai when...

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PS: Don't kill me if this is a repost. Got it as a fwd

1. You spend more time travelling than you send at home.

2. 9:47 fast, means something to you.

3. u think tht delhi copied INDIA GATE frm mumbai's GATEWAY OF INDIA...

4. You're suspicious of strangers who are actually nice to you.

5. You consider eye contact an act of overt aggression.

6. Amitabh Bachchans house is a landmark

7. When there's no place to breathe in the trains but there's place to play cards and sing bhajans!

8. You refer to the city as Bombay and not Mumbai.

9. You say that Pani Puri is way better than Gol Gappa's even when they're the same thing

10. Every three months you look at your street and say "Why're the digging the road again?"

11. You actually pay for your rickshaws by the meter.

12. You know what the term "video coach" stands for in the local trains...

13. "Gheun Tak" is your life ideology.

14. You aren't surprised when somebody throws a water balloon at you while you're walking on the streets during March.

15. you can only smile forgivingly about the size of any other city in the world.

16. Every time you speak Hindi in front of a Delhitite they have the WTF expression on their face.

17. When while giving directions you say "Right MARO aur wahan pe ek bridge GIREGA"

18. You have hung on to dear life at the local door.

19. When you think everyone who lives to the south(Mumbai) of you is a snob and to the north of you sucks

20. when u c movie names like "shootout at Lokhandwala" & 'Ek chalis ki last local" & don't have to ask what the name means

21. you consider the local train "empty" when you find a spot for your two feet to stand on.

22. when "chalta hai" is the most commonly used word

23. Everything to the north of Mumbai is UP-Bihar and everything below is Madras

24. if someone calls u "aap"-- u start laughing on their faces...

25. when you call the BEST bus, BST, even though BEST is painted on every single public transport bus operational in Bombay

26. It takes longer to get off from your house to the station than from one end of Mumbai to another by train.

27. Being truly alone makes you nervous.

28. Crorepati, Lakhpati, Hazarpati, Chillarpati all travel in local Trains daily-together!.

29. You have learnt how to stand in a queue

30. u treat mumbai as a country itself

31. when you actually see random people coming to help you when u have a problem

32. u want to get into the train already that is already in motion & u have 5 hands taking u in..

33. You are back to work next day after the city is bombed - Truly the spirit of Mumbai

34. When you allow complete strangers to spend the night in your house because its raining outside and half the city is submerged...
 
35. When the temperature hits below 25 you feel its winter season.

36. You know how to eat vada paav in one hand and drive your bike with the other hand.
 
37. When you visit Dadar station @ night.

38. Only city which pays more than 50% of taxes to GOI but there is no financial , development support from GOI for mumbai.
 
+to the 23rd point, u get pissed off when south indians think ur a northy and north indians think ur a southie.!
 
Great list, can relate to some of them. Have been to Mumbai only thrice though..:P

salluks said:
+to the 23rd point, u get pissed off when south indians think ur a northy and north indians think ur a southie.!

Sad part being, no one even thinks once that we all come from one country INDIA..
 
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