Facts and Life of a Mumbaikar!

Life of a Mumbaikar!!

Well i have been willing to write about this since a long time.finally i m about to write about Mumbai..well to start with i m a true mumbaikar..i m born nd brought up in mumbai..so beware, this might be a lengthy blog..as i can write on and on about mumbai..let me clear out when I mean Mumbaikar, I mean WE , the north Indians, South Indians, Gujaratis and Marathis and others who have stayed in this city for long enough to be domiciled as Maharashtrians (There is a difference between a Maharashtrian and a Marathi). Not the Raj Thackeray types but the true Mumbaikars who make the city of Mumbai.

Mumbaikars are always busy.No matter what time of the day, what day of the year we are just always busy.We are always in a hurry to either catch some train or do something. Ask a Mumbaikar , 'Whats the time?' and 8 out of 10 times he will get irritated that you have wasted his few minutes asking the question.

To identify a mumbaikar these are some common traits :

VADA PAV : Someone who does not like it , is not truly a Mumbaikar. And mind you all, we do not take anything negative on wada-pav lightly.We will fight back and abuse you like no one else has ever done before.

Prefer trains over Car : Again since time is money for us and we are a bunch of modest people , a person with an annual income of a million would also be travelling by trains to avoid the traffic and to reach his destination faster. We hardly believe in showing off.

 Think of Parking when we buy a car : In a city that is crowded and cramped the biggest trouble in the life of a Mumbaikar buying a car is to find a parking place.

Least MTI in English :  We will not have a thick accent nor will we pronounce English words in our mother tongue.

Impure Hindi : A Mumbaikar's Hindi would be comic and the worst in comparison. The term uses is Bombaiyya Hindi for the Hindi we speak. It is a mix of many languages and terms.

Some Facts of a Mumbaikar! 

1. we say "town " and expect everyone to know that*this means south of Churchgate.

2 we speak in a dialect of Hindi called 'Bambaiya Hindi', which only Bombayites can understand.*

3. Our door has more than three locks.

4. Rs 500 worth of groceries fit in one paper bag.

5. Train timings (9.27, 10.49 etc) are really important events of life.

6. we spend more time each month traveling than we spend at home.

7. we have the following sets of friend: school friends, college friends, neighborhood friends, office friends and yes, train friends, a species unique only in Bombay.

8. Cabbies and bus conductors think you are from Mars if you call the roads by their Indian name, they are more familiar with Warden Road, Peddar  Road, Altamount Road .

9. Stock market quotes are the only other thing*besides cricket which we follow passionately.

10. The first thing that you read in the Times of India is the " Bombay Times" supplement.

11. You take fashion seriously. You're suspicious of strangers who are actually nice to you.

12. You compare Bombay to New York 's Manhattan instead of any other cities of India.

12. The most frequently used part of your car is the horn.

13. You insist on calling CST as VT, and Sahar and Santacruz airports instead of Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport.

14. You consider eye contact an act of overt aggression.

15. Being truly alone makes you nervous.

16. You love walking through knee deep mucky water in the monsoons, and actually call it ''romantic'.

17. Only in Bombay , you would get Chinese Dosa and Jain Chicken.

18. our local trains are fully packed.. if u want an out n out experience get in a local trains..u'll hav the best experience of ur life!

19. juhu chowpatty is our Kolwa beach of Goa..

20. Nariman point, Worli Sea Face and Bandstand are our favourite holiday destination!