facts heard from a perfect hyderabadi !
Though they sound funny, anyone who is associated with Hyderabad for considerable duration, cannot deny its factuality to a great extent.
If you are in Hyderabad:
1. Your address reads as 23-404-32/67A-43 (New MCH number 56-678/4A/B-22), while you actually live in the green colour second house beside zamzam cafe in lane behind Anand Theatre on SP Road.
2. Your street has at least one roadside mobile hotel that serves Chinese delicacies such as " Vegetable soft needles", "Navrotten Kurma", "Chicken Manchewurea" or "American Chompsee".
3. Your answer is 'seedha chale jao' (keep going) when somebody asks you for directions, whether it is to Malakpet, Masab Tank, Malkajgiri or Moosapet.
4. You come across tailors sporting the board: 'Immidiot delivery in two days onli'.
5.You can speak Hindi, Urdu, hyderabadi hinglish, telenglish.... All except Telugu , fluently.
6.You ask the waiter to get you some ' achaar' (pickle) even if you are sitting at a lavish continental banquet dinner with exotic Chinese, Mexican, Italian and Lebanese cuisines.
7. You order for a tea just after having had a Caramel custard.
8. You have at least one Srinivas, Prasad, Raju, Rao or Venkatesh within six square feet. OR you have at least one cousin, friend, colleague or acquaintance with these names.
9. Every time somebody gives you a piece of good news, the first thing you ask him or her is 'Party kab hain? (when is the party)'
10. Refer to any past as 'parso', be it yesterday or long before three hundred years.
11. You call 11 AM as subah subah. 12. You are 15 minutes late and you feel you are on time.
13. You look at the 'fixed price' board and still ask 'dene ka bolo'
14. You feel offended by someone looking at you (Kaiku ghoorraa be?)
15. You can say the typical "Light le le baap" (take it easy) and be cool without analyzing what the situation is.
16. You feel its legal and your Nizami birthright to show your hand and stop the traffic (better than a traffic police) while you cross the road whenever and wherever you like.
17. You have to eat Paradise Biryani or Bawarchi Biryani atleast once in a month.
18. You go to the Petrol Bunk and say "Panch Point Single Oil maaro yaar" and hand over 15 bucks.
19. You can relate the words 'Nakko', 'Hou' 'Kaiku','hallu' and make these the integral part of your vocabulary.
20. You tell your friend that you will 'just come back' ("abbhi aathu mein") and your friend knows that either you will take a couple of hours or not come back at all.
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