20 points to prove You are a pakka Mumbaiya (Bambaiya)
Thursday, March 11th, 20101. You say ‘town ‘ and expect everyone to know that this means south of Churchgate.
2 You speak in different Hindi than rest of the country called ‘Bambaiya Hindi’, which only Bombayites can understand.
3. Your Main door of the house has more than three locks.
4. Your Rs.500 worth of groceries fit in one paper bag.
5. Train timings ( 9.17 , 10.38 etc) are very important events in your life.
6. You spend more time every day on the road traveling than you spend at home.
7. You call an 8′ x 10′ tiny room a Hall.
8.. You’re paying Rs 10,000 for a 1 room flat, the size of walk-in closet and you think it’s a ’steal.’
9. You have the following sets of friend: school friends, college friends, neighborhood friends, office friends and yes, train friends, a species unique only in Bombay. (REALLY TRUE)
10. Cabbies and bus conductors think you are from Mars if you call the roads by their Indian name, they are more familiar with Warden Road, Peddar  Road, Altamount Road
11. Stock market quotes are the only other thing* besides cricket which you follow passionately.
12. The first thing that you read in the Times of India is the ‘ Bombay Times’ supplement.
13. You take fashion seriously. You’re suspicious of strangers who are actually nice to you.
14. You compare Bombay to New York ’s Manhattan instead of any other cities of India.
15. The most frequently used part of your car is the horn.
16. You insist on calling CST as VT, and Sahar and Santacruz airports instead of Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport.
17. Your idea of personal space is no one actually standing on your toes.
18. Being truly alone makes you nervous.
19. You love wading through knee deep mucky water in the monsoons, and actually call it ”romantic’.
20. Only in Bombay, you would get Chinese Dosa and Jain Chicken
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11 Rules you did not and will not learn in any school
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