You know you are from Mumbai when.....

You know you are from Mumbai when.....

You spend more time traveling than you spend at home.

9:47 fast means something to you.

You know what the term "video coach" stands for in the local trains...

You have hung on to your dear life at the local door.

When there's no place to breathe in the trains but there's place to play cards and sing bhajans

You consider the local train "empty" when you find a spot for your two feet to stand on.

It takes longer to get off from your house to the station than from one end of Mumbai to another by train.

Crorepati, Lakhpati, Hazarpati, Chillarpati all travel in local Trains daily-together!.

U think that Delhi copied INDIA GATE from Mumbai’s GATEWAY OF INDIA...

You're suspicious of strangers who are actually nice to you.

You consider eye contact an act of overt aggression.

You refer to the city as Mumbai and not Bombay.

You say that Pani Puri is waayy better than Gol Gappa's even when they're the same thing

Every three months you look at your street and say "Why're they digging the road again?"

You aren't surprised when somebody throws a water balloon at you while you're walking on the streets during March.

Every time you speak Hindi in front of a Delhitite they have the WTF expression on their face.

Every time a Delhite speaks to you in Hindi YOU have a WTF expression

When while giving directions you say "Right MARO aur wahan pe ek bridge GIREGA…….

You have the following sets of friends: school friends, college friends, neighborhood friends, office friends and train friends, a species unique to Mumbai

When you think everyone who lives to the south(Mumbai) of you is a snob and to the north of you sucks

when u c movie names like "shootout at Lokhandwala" & 'Ek chalis ki last local" & don't have to ask what the name means

when "chalta hai" is the most commonly used word

Everything to the north of Mumbai is UP-Bihar and everything below is Madras

If someone calls u "aap"-- u start laughing on their faces...

when you call the BEST bus, BST, even though BEST is painted on every single public transport bus operational in Bombay

Being truly alone makes you nervous.

You have learnt how to stand in a queue

Stock market quotes are the only other thing besides cricket which you follow passionately.

You prefer saying 'kaanda' and 'batata' rather than 'aaloo' or 'pyaaz'.

You don’t dare stand near the entrance of a virar fast EVEN when you want to get down in fear of being crushed by the deluge that’s just gonna pour in at the next station.

When you enter the train and see that the bench is occupied by just three people (which IS actually meant to accommodate three people) you tell them to “khisak” a little to make place for u to sit.

You think of Chowpatty and Juhu beaches as 'nature'

You haven't heard the sound of true, absolute silence since 1977, and when you did, it terrified you

u treat Mumbai as a country in itself

when you actually see random people coming to help you when u have a problem

u want to get into the train that is already in motion & u have 5 hands taking u in..

You are back to work next day after the city is bombed - Truly the spirit of Mumbai

When you allow complete strangers to spend the night in your house because its raining outside and half the city is submerged...