Tweet
An Indian colleague sent me this the other day. I'm sure you know Jamaicans who do some of these things.
1. Everything you eat is savoured in garlic, onion and tomatoes.
2. The two largest size suitcases at the airport inevitably belong to you.
3. If you see a group of slow-moving, luggage-heavy passengers with excitable children approaching your gate, you’re sure they’re Indians, and you wish hard they’ve got the gate wrong.
4. You shudder at the thought of Indian co-passengers as you’re likely to be asked to mind purses and/or kids whilst parents “just freshen-up”; all you can do is smile and suffer in stifled exasperation.
5. You name your children in rhythms (example, Ritika & Nikita, Sita & Gita, Ajay & Vijay, Monica & Shonika, Ram & Shyam).
6. You take Indian snacks anywhere it says 'No Food Allowed' .
7. You carry a stash of your own food whenever you travel (and travel means even a car ride longer than 15 minutes)…
8. You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house.
9. You load up the family car with as many people as possible.
10. You spend your weekends and birthdays on the phone with your 101 cousins, friends, and friends of cousins (whom you played with when you were 7).
11. You use plastic to cover anything new in your house whether it's the remote control, Home cinema equipment, carpet or new couch.
12. 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.
13. You buy wonderful crockery, which is never used as it is for special occasions, which are never special enough to warrant that set.
14. You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
15. You keep leftover food in your fridge in as many numbers of bowls as possible.
16. You own a rice cooker or a pressure cooker.
17. You fight over who pays the dinner bill (everyone insists on footing the bill, saying “my treat today” )
18. You live with your parents and you are 40 years old. (And they prefer it that way).
19. You don't use measuring cups when cooking, and get exasperated when you read recipes that do.
20. You feel loved only if there at least 5 persons to see you off, or receive you when you travel, whether you are travelling by bus, train or plane.
21. If she is NOT your daughter, you take avid interest in knowing whose daughter has eloped with whose son, and feel it’s your national duty to spread it at the speed of light.
22. If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they never fail to ask if you've eaten, even if it's midnight (and even if you are 57 years old).
23. You call an older person you never met before Uncle or Aunty, including strangers who stop you for direction (and you wonder why people look at you strangely when you do this abroad as well)
24. When your parents meet strangers and talk for a few minutes, you discover you're talking to a distant cousin.
25. 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.
26. You have bed sheets on your sofas so as to keep them from getting dirty.
27. All your Tupperware is stained with food colour, and smells of spices.
28. You use drinking glasses made of stainless steel throughout your life, whilst your beautiful sterling silver dinner set just sits in your bank vault.
29. It’s rare to go to a wedding with fewer than 600 invitees, and you feel sorry for the family and wonder what financial misfortunes befell them.
1. Everything you eat is savoured in garlic, onion and tomatoes.
2. The two largest size suitcases at the airport inevitably belong to you.
3. If you see a group of slow-moving, luggage-heavy passengers with excitable children approaching your gate, you’re sure they’re Indians, and you wish hard they’ve got the gate wrong.
4. You shudder at the thought of Indian co-passengers as you’re likely to be asked to mind purses and/or kids whilst parents “just freshen-up”; all you can do is smile and suffer in stifled exasperation.
5. You name your children in rhythms (example, Ritika & Nikita, Sita & Gita, Ajay & Vijay, Monica & Shonika, Ram & Shyam).
6. You take Indian snacks anywhere it says 'No Food Allowed' .
7. You carry a stash of your own food whenever you travel (and travel means even a car ride longer than 15 minutes)…
8. You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house.
9. You load up the family car with as many people as possible.
10. You spend your weekends and birthdays on the phone with your 101 cousins, friends, and friends of cousins (whom you played with when you were 7).
11. You use plastic to cover anything new in your house whether it's the remote control, Home cinema equipment, carpet or new couch.
12. 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.
13. You buy wonderful crockery, which is never used as it is for special occasions, which are never special enough to warrant that set.
14. You use grocery bags to hold garbage.
15. You keep leftover food in your fridge in as many numbers of bowls as possible.
16. You own a rice cooker or a pressure cooker.
17. You fight over who pays the dinner bill (everyone insists on footing the bill, saying “my treat today” )
18. You live with your parents and you are 40 years old. (And they prefer it that way).
19. You don't use measuring cups when cooking, and get exasperated when you read recipes that do.
20. You feel loved only if there at least 5 persons to see you off, or receive you when you travel, whether you are travelling by bus, train or plane.
21. If she is NOT your daughter, you take avid interest in knowing whose daughter has eloped with whose son, and feel it’s your national duty to spread it at the speed of light.
22. If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they never fail to ask if you've eaten, even if it's midnight (and even if you are 57 years old).
23. You call an older person you never met before Uncle or Aunty, including strangers who stop you for direction (and you wonder why people look at you strangely when you do this abroad as well)
24. When your parents meet strangers and talk for a few minutes, you discover you're talking to a distant cousin.
25. 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.
26. You have bed sheets on your sofas so as to keep them from getting dirty.
27. All your Tupperware is stained with food colour, and smells of spices.
28. You use drinking glasses made of stainless steel throughout your life, whilst your beautiful sterling silver dinner set just sits in your bank vault.
29. It’s rare to go to a wedding with fewer than 600 invitees, and you feel sorry for the family and wonder what financial misfortunes befell them.
, cause she offer me a piece of festival for mi chicken.. Jamaice Nice All The Time 
Comment