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Your Parents are Desi When...

• When your mom makes a Mexican meal and tells you to count the number of Taco Bell packets in her purse
• They peel the stamps off letters that the postal service missed to mark up
• They buy 2-ply toilet paper and they tell you to use only 1 ply at a time to make it last
• When your mom comes home with napkins stuffed in her purse of the restaurant she last ate at
• When you become part of that vicious clan who recycles wedding gifts
• Take Indian snacks anywhere it says "No food allowed"
• Make kichdi on the beach wearing saris
• Wear shorts with dress socks and tennis shoes
• Try to use coupons that expired 5 months ago and argue when the store doesn't accept them, or simply tear off the expiration date
• Eat half of a pizza at a restaurant and then complaining that it wasn't made right (I want refund!)
• The famous: "hamburger, no meat, water, no ice, 3 cups, and 18 ketchups please"
• Talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house
• loading up the family car with as many Indians as possible when it's a "pay per car" entrance fee.
• renting movies and splitting the cost with 2 other families and having the last family return it.
• taking 30-45 minutes deciding which Indian movie to watch when it only costs 25 cents!...then asking for a refund when it sucks.
• when you see a bath pail in a stand-up shower or tub
• when everyone gets the same Christmas present...a "buy one get one free" special
• when people show up late to a function...just in time for the food!
• Plastic covers anything new in your parents' house whether it is the remote control to the VCR or the new living room couch.
• Your parents only face straight when driving with both hands on the steering wheel and notice nothing but the road in front of them.
• They have one of these three cars, an Olds Cutlass Ciera, a Honda Accord or a Toyota Camry. (Rich desis drive a Lexus or a Mercedes.)
• When family friends come over, you have ten conversations going on in the same room at the same time very loudly.
• You eat dinner on the floor covered with newspapers when company comes over.
• Your parents tell you to not care what your friends think but they won't let you do certain things because of what the other "Uncles and Aunties" will think.
• You've never owned white clothing because it will be hard to take stains out of it. (That's what mom says.)
• You have a collection of used wrapping paper and bows that have been saved for re-use.
• Your bio-data and picture have been circulated more than your resume.
• Your parents won't let you attend college outside of your hometown because you might actually date members of the opposite sex!