Wednesday, July 11, 2018

How do you know you are no longer in Mumbai





1) You don’t hear East or West 10,000 times a day.

2) People around you talk about time in multiples of 30 mins. Like see you around 8:30 or call you after 10. No Longer you hear I will reach Ghatkopar at 8:17.
See you in 9:33 Titwala fast.

3) No longer you have luxury of getting into the trains without putting any effort. Crowd does not push you into or out of the compartment. You have to do it yourself.

4) Suddenly you tend to acknowledge the existence other "Lee's of the world. Like Bruce Lee, Jet Lee, Ang Lee apart from Borivalee, ChandivaLee, VikhroLee, DombivaLee .. (Don’t have enough space to mention them all.)

5) It is no longer a matter of pride when you say I have a flat in Andheri. People ask you to get an electricity connection.

6) Suddenly you feel respected when someone calls you Bhaiya or Mama.

7) You start to observe that now number of "Car"s  around you are more than number of "Kar"s .

8) You start to think that you can buy a house.

9) You start to realize that "Sena" does not necessarily refer to a political party. It can refer to Army too..

10) Your Airport, railway station, Museum, TV serial, Movies are named after different Heroes.


11) You don’t hear news about sex change operations done on Railway stations. e.g. "Victoria" terminus being changed into "Shivaji" terminus.


12) When people talk about Floods they mean Rivers not rains.


13) Last but not the least: While walking on the pavements you are no longer afraid of getting run over by Salman's Car. Outside Mumbai he prefers Chinkaras to Human. After all it’s about Being Human.

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