This is not new but since I read after a long time so I thought to share with my readers. Funny as well as bitter.

You know you are in Karachi, when

· A road with bumps and manholes still qualifies as a road.

· A short drive takes 25 minutes to get from A to B.

· Beggars travel in the local bus.

· Its December and you attend 5 mehndis / shaadis in one night and end up meeting the same people at each of them

· Sunday morning starts at 1 pm .

· There is no such thing as lunch.

· There is no such thing as over time yet everyone sits in their office till after 9 pm .

· To you wildlife means crows.

· Winter means the first 15 days of January.

· You actually go “out for coffee”

· You actually pray for the electricity to come back.

· You are afraid to go to a hospital because you might get a disease.

· You blame everything on K.E.S.C

· You can smell fish while driving and dont complain.

· You catagorize people as “burgers” or “melas”

· You dont take the police seriously at all.

· You feel you never have to wait in line if you are with “lay-diss” (ladies)

· You get shocked when someone stops at a yellow light

· You go to sleep listening to rickshaws and wake up to the sound of one.

· You have atleast 5 servings of some form of caffeine each day.

· You know you are in Karachi when there is two way traffic on a one way road.

· You know you are in Karachi if you cant go home when the president is in town.

· You ll go to the coolest place to eat but on your way back will want paan from the khoka.

· You make “missed calls”

· You never have dinner before 1am in shaadi season

· You never realized that North Nazimabad was actually in the North

· You never really know what to say when someone asks you what there is to see in Karachi

· You own either a Corolla or a Civic

· You roll down your car window and you can actually touch the car next to you

· You see street lights on during the day and not during the night.

· You still have some of Everest Videos movies and don’t plan to return them

· You think cows live on the streets.

· You think people are not cool if they havent been robbed atleast 3 times in their life.

· You use the phrases “whats the scene?”, “scene on hai”

· You go by landmarks not street names

· You know your city is a hole but you love it anyways

· You used to go for tutions even though didnt need them

· Your lungs have enough smoke to match a chain smoker.

· Your only argument in the Lahore / Karachi debate is “well we have a beach”

· Your school gets closed when it rains

· You’ve bought a DVD of a movie that hasn’t even been released yet

· You’ve given an exam at Regent Plaza

· You’ve met a Parsi

· You’ve never really seen a tourist

· You’ve always wondered what “khayaban” meant

· “I’m on Shahre Faisal” is always a valid excuse for arriving late.

· You say that you really like that restaurant / shop and someone says “oh yea, my family owns that”

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