1. Your house smells like fried onions.
2. When you tell your parents you got 98%, and they ask you what happened to the other two percent.
3. There is a sale on any item, you buy 100 of them.
4. You make tea in a saucepan.
5. You never buy bin bags, but use your saved grocery bags for it. ( HAHAHA)
6. You put your clothes in suitcases instead of wardrobes.
7. You have a 'Singer Brother' sewing machine at home.
8. Your mother has a minor disagreement with her sister and doesn't talk to her for ten years.
9. You call an older person you've never met before "uncle".
10. You hide everything from your parents.

11. Your mother does everything for you if you are male.
12. You do all the housework and cooking if you are female.
13. Your relatives alone could populate a small city.
14. Everyone is a family friend.
15. Everyone always called you for help on homework.
16. You can only only study law, medicine or engineering at university.
17. You are thick/ not so smart...so you study computer science or business instead.
18. You know no one who has studied music.
19. You went to a university as far away from home as possible.
20. You still come back home to live with your parents after you had finished.

21. Your best friend got married at the age of 18. (yea)
22. You only make telephone calls after 9 pm.
23. You like the meat well done.
24. You eat onions with everything.
25. You use chilli sauce instead of tomato ketchup.
26. You fight over who pays the dinner bill.
27. You teach Westerners swearwords in your language.
28. You order Indian food in your own language to impress the people you're with but the waiters don't understand you.
29. You avoid public places when with a member of the opposite sex, especially if there is an acquaintance within a 250 miles radius.
30. You always say "open the light" instead of "turn the light on".

31. You secure your baggage with a rope.
32. You're walking out of customs with your trolley at the airport and you see all twenty-five members of your family who have come to pick you up.
33. You get very upset when airlines refuse to accept your luggage which is just 80 lbs. overweight.
34. You go back to your parents' country and people treat you like a member of the royal family.
35. You ask your dad a simple question and he tells you story of how he had to walk miles barefoot just to get to school.
36. Your parents would freak out if you wore a crop top baring your midriff but wearing a shalwar-khamize / sari is perfectly acceptable.
37. Your brother had no curfew while you(girlz) had to be home before (Khadera) Sunsets...
38. You are ALWAYS taking off and putting on your shoes wherever you go ( girlz)
39. When you were little you always wondered why your English/American friends waited until after breakfast to brush their teeth when you did it as the first thing in the morning
40. When your parents answer the phone , the first word they say is "SALAM" and try to convert your Americans friend to Islam.

41. You have annoying nicknames like Babloo, Chicku, Poola, pooplaa, Choota, for girlz mostly chanda....
42. Your parents call all your friends "Beta" (son) whether they are PAKI or not
43. Your mother measures wealth in gold and diamonds
44. Your parents drink 6 cups of tea a day
45. Your parents push the concept of an arranged marriage on you and try to demonstrate how well it works whenever they're not fighting.
46. Your parents compare you to all of their friends' kids.
47. At least once a week your mom says, "I want to go to Pakistan/India"
48. No one ever seems to call ahead of time to say they are coming over for a visit.
49. Your parents worry what other people will think if you're not going to be a doctor/ lawyer/ engineer.
50. Your parents always say, "It's cheaper in Pakisan/India"