You know you are from Mumbai when.....
-Stock market quotes are the only other thing besides cricket which you follow passionately.
-You take fashion seriously.
-You spend more time travelling than you send at home.
-8:08 Malad local ;, means something to you.
-You're suspicious of strangers who are actually nice to you.
-You won’t consider hitting back a person who has just abused you coz the time you waste there can earn you money .
-Amitabh Bacchans house is a landmark
-When there's no place to breathe in the trains but there's place to play cards and sing bhajans!
-You refer to the city as Mumbai and not Bombay .
-Every three months you look at your street and say "Why're they digging the road again?"
-You actually pay for your rickshaws and taxis by the meter.
-"Gheun Tak" is your life ideology.
-You aren't surprised when somebody throws a water balloon at you while you're walking on the streets during March.
-you can only smile forgivingly about the size of any other city in the world.
-Every time you speak Hindi in front of a Delhitite they have the WTF expression on their face.
-When while giving directions you say "Right MARO aur wahan pe ek bridge GIREGA"
-You have hung on to dear life at the local door.
Train friends ,bus friends etc. are the only friends with whom you are in constant touch.
You find it derogatory when someone addresses you by the name ‘bhaiyya’
-When you think everyone who lives to the south(Mumbai) of you is a snob and to the north of you sucks
-You consider the local train "empty" when you find a spot for your two feet to stand on.
when "chalta hai" is the most commonly used word
-Everything to the north of Mumbai is UP-Bihar and everything below is Madras
if someone calls u "aap"-- u start laughing on their faces...
-when you call the BEST bus, BST, even though BEST is painted on every single public transport bus operational in Bombay
-It takes longer to get off from your house to the station than from one end of Mumbai to another by train.
-Being truly alone makes you nervous.
-Crorepati, Lakhpati, Hazarpati, Chillarpati all travel in local Trains daily-together!!!
-You have learnt how to stand in a queue
-u treat mumbai as a country itself
-when you actually see random people coming to help you when u have a problem
-u want to get into the train already that is already in motion & u have 5 hands taking u in..
-You are back to work next day after the city is bombed - Truly the spirit of Mumbai
-When you allow complete strangers to spend the night in your house because its raining outside and half the city is submerged...
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6 comments:
great points put altogether
liked the small glimpse of this big beautiful city
Nicely put...Good deal of effort in the post.
But i still prefer to call it Bombay.
loved it completely..
I don't know why others call it BST,I call it that because I realized that BEST takes a lil more effort... :P BST just works fine for me... so does Bombay
some of us still love this city as BOMBAY...no matter wat
btw u missed a very crucial point-
VADA PAV:our own ans to phirangi burger.we can gorge on them anytime .
and yup love that ideology .."GHEUN TAK".
very well written....bt u have forgotten imp things too like "vada pav" as anand said .. nd u have mostly written abt the western side...i feel so(nd malad local is just specially significant to malad folks only)lolz
good stuuf tanmay. Covered everything abt bombay( yes i'd prefer calling it so too), though i do tend to disagree with a few points(of course :D)..nevertheless a truly mumbaikar supportive post. very well done.
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