You know you are an Indian when.....

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I know that the theme of this post isn't exactly original but I'm sure that the content is. I've seen a few email forwards which list certain signs which indicate that you're an Indian, and I felt that a blog which is called "only in India" must have at least one such list.

So here goes....

You know you're an Indian when.....

you have at some point in your life asked for directions to the loo or indicated that you wanted to relieve yourself by raising your little finger. This is probably an exclusively male phenomenon though. I wonder who came up with the trend of denoting wanting to take a piss by raising their little finger? Besides why was the little finger thought worthy of portraying this urge? Why not the middle finger or the thumb?
you consider parking your car in a "no parking" zone not an offence if there is someone sitting inside the car. Guys the fact that you've halted at the side of a road for more than 1 minute means that you are PARKED! The presence or absence of individuals within the car is not in any way correlated with the event of parking
you love street food and having had discussions about how street food is so tasty, arrived at the conclusion that it is the filth, pollution, sewage water and the cook's sweat which are the decisive factors
you go to a coffee shop of a 5 star hotel to have coffee after going out partying but will then head to the nearest street food joint to have a meal. Why spend 50 bucks on watery coffee and then pav bahji and bhurjee pav and missal pav and keema pav for 20 bucks????
you are willing to tip the waiter and the guy who carries your luggage to your hotel room but you never consider tipping the guy in the loo of 5 star hotels who hands out tissues to you
at least once in your life you've had a fight with an auto/taxi driver because you thought that the meter was tampered with
at least once in your life you have filled up a form in triplicate wherein you have answered questions like your name father's name and address multiple number of times. You have also come across fields like "mother tongue", "permanent email address" and "taluka" while filling forms
you think of bribing people to get your work done as "resourcefulness" you have gone to a bookstore and surreptitiously glanced through the Kamasutra. You have been too shy to actually buy the book. After checking the book out you have gone directly to the "religion and philosophy" or the "management" section of the bookstore to demonstrate to possible onlookers that you are not a pervert
you know someone who works at TCS, Infosys or Wipro- either personally or through your neighbour, neighbour's best friend's cousin, brother-in-law's cousin's boss or such other vague connection

This is a list that I have come up with so far. Dear readers, please feel free to come up any more Indian-isms and I will add it to the list