Subject: WHY PAKISTANIS ARE EASY TO IDENTIFY
1. Everything you eat is savoured in garlic, onion
and tomatoes.
2.You try and reuse gift wrappers, gift boxes, and
of course aluminium foil.
3. You are always standing next to the two
largest size suitcases at the Airport.
4. You arrive one or two hours late to a party - and
think it's normal.
5. You peel the stamps off letters that the Postal
Service missed to stamp.
6. You recycle Wedding Gifts, Birthday Gifts and
Anniversary Gifts.7. You name your children in rhythms
(example, Shameem, Naeem, Nazia, Shaziza etc.)
8. All your children have pet names, which sound
nowhere close to their real names.
9. You take snacks anywhere it says 'No Food
Allowed'
10. You talk for an hour at the front door when leaving
some one's house.
11. You load up the family car with as many
people as possible.
12.You use plastic to cover anything new
in your house whether it's the remote control, VCR, or
new couch.
13. 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.
14. You buy and display crockery, which is never
used. as it is meant for a special occasion that never
happens.
15. You use a vinyl table cloth on your kitchen
table.
16. You use grocery bags to hold
garbage.
17. You keep leftover food in your fridge in as many
numbers of bowls as possible.
18. Your kitchen shelf is full of
jars, varieties of bowls and plastic utensils (got free with
purchase of other stuff)
19. You carry a stash of your own food whenever you travel
(and travel means any car ride longer than 15
minutes).
20. You own a rice cooker or a pressure
cooker.
21. You fight over who pays the dinner
bill.
22. You live with your parents
and you are 40 years old. (And they prefer it that way).
23. You don't use measuring cups when cooking.
24. You never learnt how to stand in a queue.
25. You can only travel if there are 5 persons at
least to see you off or
receive you whether you are travelling by bus, train or
plane.
26. You only make long distance calls after
11pm
27. Your conversation is laced with with constant
references to God even while talking about the most mundane
and insignificant matters.
28. You call an older person you
never met before Uncle or Auntie.
29. When your parents meet a stranger and talk for a few
minutes, you discover another distant cousin.
30. You have bed sheets on your sofas so as to keep them
from getting dirty.
31. Its embarrassing if you're invited to a
wedding with less than 600 people.
32. You have drinking glasses made of steel.
33. You have mastered the art of bargaining in shopping.
34. You don't engage in dialogue. You don't pay the
slightest attention what the other person is saying. You
impatiently wait for them to stop speaking so you can
blurt out your piece.
35. You have strong opinions on everything under the sun.
But when it comes to decision making, you allow issues to
reach a crisis point and panic set in before you decide to
act.
Author: A Proud Pakistani
