how to spot a sri lankan...!
everything you eat is savored with onions, chilies and is deviled .
you re-use gift wrappers, gift boxes, and of course aluminum foil.
you are standing next to the two largest size suitcases at the airport.
you arrive one or two hours late to a party, and ask if anyone’s arrived.
you peel the stamps off letters that the postal service missed to frank
…and then you recycle greeting cards.
your toilet has a plastic bowl and / or a little shower next to the commode.
all your children have pet names, which sound nowhere close to their real names.
you talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house.
you load up the family car with as many people as possible.
you use plastic to cover anything new in your house whether it's the remote control, vcr, carpet or new couch.
you tell jokes about a strange guy named udarawana who must be a blond.
you live with your parents even if you are 40 years old (and they like it that way).
if she is NOT your daughter, you always take interest in knowing whose daughter has run away with whose son and feel its your duty to spread the word.
you only make long distance calls after 11 p.m.
if you don't live at home, when your parents call they ask if you've eaten, even if it's midnight.
when your parents meet other sri lankans for the first time and talk for a few minutes, you soon discover they are your relatives.
your parents don't realize phone connections to foreign countries have improved in the last two decades, and still scream at the top of their lungs while talking.
you have bed sheets on your sofas so as to keep them from getting dirty.
it's embarrassing if your wedding has less than 600 people.
you list your daughter as "fair and slim" in the matrimonial no matter what she looks like.
you think it a god given right to jump a queue
you slander the politicians even though you haven’t voted in decades.
you have really enjoyed reading this missive because you know some, or most of them, apply to you!
(based on an e mail doing the rounds sometime back)
you arrive one or two hours late to a party, and ask if anyone’s arrived.
you peel the stamps off letters that the postal service missed to frank
…and then you recycle greeting cards.
your toilet has a plastic bowl and / or a little shower next to the commode.
all your children have pet names, which sound nowhere close to their real names.
you talk for an hour at the front door when leaving someone's house.
you load up the family car with as many people as possible.
you use plastic to cover anything new in your house whether it's the remote control, vcr, carpet or new couch.
you tell jokes about a strange guy named udarawana who must be a blond.
you live with your parents even if you are 40 years old (and they like it that way).
if she is NOT your daughter, you always take interest in knowing whose daughter has run away with whose son and feel its your duty to spread the word.
you only make long distance calls after 11 p.m.
if you don't live at home, when your parents call they ask if you've eaten, even if it's midnight.
when your parents meet other sri lankans for the first time and talk for a few minutes, you soon discover they are your relatives.
your parents don't realize phone connections to foreign countries have improved in the last two decades, and still scream at the top of their lungs while talking.
you have bed sheets on your sofas so as to keep them from getting dirty.
it's embarrassing if your wedding has less than 600 people.
you list your daughter as "fair and slim" in the matrimonial no matter what she looks like.
you think it a god given right to jump a queue
you slander the politicians even though you haven’t voted in decades.
you have really enjoyed reading this missive because you know some, or most of them, apply to you!
(based on an e mail doing the rounds sometime back)
posted by the scribe at 11:19 AM
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