Saturday, May 7, 2011

Top 10 ways of recognizing a Delhiite

10. You claim you never use words like Pepsi-Vepsi or Coke-Shoke, you say that only the stupid-vupid people use it.

9. You have seen at least 6 people pinched in a DTC bus, 3 people who have actually done it - of course, YOU have never ever done it! Seriously :-)

8. You can name drop effortlessly - "mera Poofa ka bhai ke beta ka sagaa mausa ja chachera bhai minster hai". Most of us don't know who a poofa is or chachera means.

7. You know that Delhi is much better than Mumbai in terms of branding - have they ever heard of a Mumbai Public School but Delhi Public School is all over the world!

6. Anyone south of the Vindhyas is a Madrasi.

5. You know when the rick guy asks you "Left ya Right", the correct answer is actually straight.

4. You call all strange men as "Bhaiyya" as a defence mechanism - although it doesn't actually work!

3. You love food - Mumbai might have vada pav, Kolkatta might have kaathi rolls but real food is in Delhi.

2. You know it is better to have 5 nice designer dresses than 10 cheap ones - that's for the rest of the world.

and the number one way of recognizing a Delhi ite is

1. To survive in Delhi, you take all the relatives on one side and 4 letter words on the other side and you cross multiply!!