This is a great list for those of us who are either from Karachi, live there now, or have been there sometime in their lives. If you can add to the list, please do…..

And for those of you that have great stories of your experience in the city, please share those too!

You know you’re from Karachi when…

1. You get shocked when someone stops at a yellow light
2. You never really know what to say when someone asks you what there is to see in Karachi
3. You give “missed calls”
4. You’ve never really seen a tourist
5. Its December and you attend 5 mehndis/shaadis in one night and end up meeting the same people at each of them
6. You use the phrases “what’s the scene?” “scene on hai” or “whose she sceening with?”
7. You still have some of Everest Videos movies and don’t plan to return them
8. You’ve met a Parsi
9. You’ve given an exam at Regent Plaza
10. You feel you never have to wait in line if you are with “lay-diss” (ladies)
11. You’ve bought a dvd of a movie that hasn’t even been released yet
12. You actually go “out for coffee”
13. You used to go for tuitions even though didn’t need them
14. You say that you really like that restaurant/shop and someone says “oh yea, my family owns that”
15. You categorize people as “burgers” or “melas”
16. You roll down your car window and you can actually touch the car next to you
17. You go by landmarks not street names
18. Your only argument in the Lahore/Karachi debate is “well we have a beach”
19. You own either a Suzuki Corolla or a Civic
20. You never realized that North Nazimabad was actually in the North
21. You never have dinner before 1am in shaadi season
22. You’ve always wondered what “khayaban” meant
23. You know the “telefun” number by heart even though you don’t know what “telefun” is/does
24. You blame everything on K.E.S.C
25. Your school gets closed when it rains
26. You know you are in Karachi when there is two-way traffic on a one-way road.
27. You are a Karachiite when there is no such thing as over time yet everyone sits in their office till after 9 pm .
28. You don’t take the police seriously at all.
29. You are afraid to go to a hospital because you might get a disease.
30. You have at least 5 servings of some form of caffeine each day.
31. There is no such thing as lunch.
32. To you wildlife means crows.
33. You think cows live on the streets.
34. Sunday morning starts at 1 pm.
35. You ll go to the coolest place to eat but on your way back will want paan from the khoka.
36. Winter means the first 15 days of January.
37. A short drive takes 25 minutes to get from A to B.
38. You actually pray for the electricity to come back.
39. Eating at KFC is a life and death gamble.
40. You can smell fish while driving and don’t complain.
41. I’m on Shahrah-e-Faisal is always a valid excuse for arriving late.
42. A road with bumps and manholes still qualifies as a road.
43. Beggars travel in the local bus.
44. You see street lights on during the day and not during the night.
45. You’re a Karachiite when you think public buses kill people everyday.
46. You think people are not cool if they haven’t been robbed at least 3 times in their life.
47. You know you’re in karachi if you can’t go home when the president is in town.
48. You go to sleep listening to rickshaws and wake up to the sound of one.
49. Your lungs have enough smoke to match a chain smoker.
50. You know your city is a hole but you love it anyways.

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  By hisalloo, 24 April, 2007 @ 1:39 pm

  and yes If u r a karachite then u must have more than 1 cell phones in ur pocket,,at least one to present to somebody very decently asking for the mobile on the road …:)

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