You are a Pakka Hyderabadi if...

You are a Pakka Hyderabadi if:

1. Your address reads as 23-404-32/67A-43 (New MCH number 56-678/4A/B-22), while you actually live in the second house beside Zamzam cafe in lane behind Anand Theatre on SP Road.

2. You end up buying only a salwar kameez, whether it is a theatre workshop, food mela, consumer expo, designer jewellery show, science show or an automobile convention.

3. Your street has at least one roadside mobile hotel that serves Chai, Chinese delicacies such as Vegetable soft noodles, "Navrattan Kurma", Chicken "Manchewurea" or "American Chompsee."

4. Your answer is 'seedha chale jao' when somebody asks you for directions, whether it is to Malakpet, Masab Tank, Malkajgiri or Moosapet.

5. You come across tailors sporting the board:
“Immidiot delivery in two days onli. “

6. If you can speak Hindi, Urdu, English and Hyderabadi, except Telugu, fluently.

7. Your answer is 'not in my pockets' when somebody asks you 'Where is XYZ?'...and you also roll on the floor laughing at your joke.

8. If you ask the waiter to get you some 'Mango pickle' even if you are sitting at a lavish continental banquet dinner with exotic Chinese, Mexican, Italian and Lebanese cuisines.

9. You order for a tea just after having had a Caramel Custard.

10. If you have at least one cousin, friend or acquaintance within six square feet.

11. If you have at least one cousin, friend, colleague or acquaintance in the US in software.

12. If everytime somebody gives you a piece of good news, the first thing you ask them is 'Dawat kab hain?'

13. You are reading this and secretly admitting that you are, after all, a true blue Hyderabadi.

14. If you refer to an event which happened 5 years ago as "just day before yesterday" (Parsoon ki bath hai )

15. If you tell your friend that you will 'just come back' ( abbhi aaya ) and your friend knows that either you will take a couple of hours or not come back at all.

16. If your friend is exaggerating and fibbing (phekh rah miyan; bolte jah, mei lachche maraun) and you are so used to it that and are not even raising and eye lid.

17. If somebody asks you what work you are doing, you explain him everything between the earth and sky except your work.

18. or tell him that you are leaving for Saudi or mostly Dubai, waiting for the immigration call (kal parsoon mein ane walla hai) for the past 7 years.

19. If you are repugnant and ugly and still feel as the most handsome/beautiful man/women on earth which every girl/boy is waiting for and everyday you look in the mirror and convince yourself the same.

20. If you feel offended by someone looking at you (ghoor raa kyon )

21. If you never admit that you are not capable and always complain of office politics and how unjustly the world is treating you.

22. If 'pinde ku bolo' and 'baigan mein mill gaya' suffices for almost any explanation and 'Nakko', 'Hou' ‘Kaiku’ , ‘hallu’ forms and integral part of your vocabulary.

23. If you do not eat rice at least once a day you will die.

24. If you consider eating Biryani, Nahari, Paye, Khatti Daal, Khichdi, Kat, Chakna made by any other person than a Hyderabadi, as ridiculous.

25. If you find it difficult to get up every morning and curse why the day had to start so early even though its 11 o clock and you always insist on sleeping for '2 more mins'

26. If you think its completely legal and your birth right to flirt with someone’s sister and not have anyone look at yours.

27. If you think everyone respects you and is dying to be in with your company even though they know you are not smart and intelligent.

28. If you dont complain, crib and lament about something during the day, you cannot sleep properly at night.

29. If you pronounce Electricity as 'Electric-city' and Half wit as 'Hallfit' and completely understand when someone says 'light le lo"

30. If you cannot understand how people can live without Chai, Paan and two movies per week.

31. If you are sympathetic and can relate to why people spend 5 years of their life sitting in Irani hotel drinking Ek Chai Ek Empty aur ek pauna.

32. If you have to know whats happening and what’s new in each and every house in your neighbourhood and "Kis ka chakkar kis ke saath chal ra"

33. If you think life will not be the same if you don’t spend half an hour in the shower and half and hour in the bathroom.

34. If you receive the daily Urdu paper, which translates, English movie titles showing in nearby theatres into Urdu. "View to a Kill" ="Nazre Khathal"

35. If you think are more 'maden' (mordern) and abreast with all the latest happenings than any one else.

36. If you never miss a chance to embarass people (yahneeke mazak udhana).

37. If you think you are a born shayer and use some typical filmi batein in stylish urdu and crack some romantic jokes.

38. While someone does this, you say to yourself 'chubbe saale , mooh dekh aine mein, tere ku kaun pat thi, pataaney waala tho main hi hoon'

39. If by chance in the office or work place if a female/male co-worker starts speaking to some male/female person then you try to report this to everybody 'chakkar chalra baap'

40. If you go to the Petrol Bunk and say "Panch Point Single Oil" and hand over 15 bucks.

41. AND you are a Hyderabadi if you are reading this and saying, "Yes, this happens and is true. But of course, does not apply to me!