Things to Prove You are a Mumbayite...

* You say "town" and expect everyone to know that this means south of Churchgate
* You speak in a dialect of Hindi called 'Bambaiya Hindi', which only Mumbayite can understand
* Your door has more than 3 locks
* Rs.500/- worth of groceries fit in one paper bag
* Train timings (9.27, 10.49 etc) are really important events of life
* You spend more time each month traveling than you spend at home
* You call an 8' x 10' clustered room a Hall
* You're paying Rs.10,000/- for a 1 room flat, the size of walk-in closet and you think it's a "steal"
* You have the following sets of friend: school friends, college friends, neighborhood friends, office friends and yes, train friends, a species unique only in Mumbai.
* 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 etc.
* Stock market quotes are the only other thing besides cricket which you follow passionately
* The first thing that you read in the Times of India is the "Bombay Times" supplement
* You take fashion seriously. You're suspicious of strangers who are actually nice to you
* You compare Mumbai to New York's Manhattan instead of any other cities of India
* The most frequently used part of your car is the horn
* You consider eye contact an act of overt aggression
* Your idea of personal space is no one actually standing on your toes
* Being truly alone makes you nervous
* You love wading through knee deep mucky water in the monsoons, and actually call it ''romantic'
* Only in Mumbai, you would get Chinese Dosa and Jain Chicke