You realize you are in the United States when:
1) You walk out of the airport and don’t see porters
2) Multiplication and Division by 50 seem to be easy but important tasks
3) You get up at all weird times during the first week
4) You realize that Comcast is the only Internet Service provider
5) You are made to sign on two year contracts on virtually any phone you buy
6) You start using the Internet for trivial tasks like looking up the weather that too on the Fahrenheit scale
7) You count in pounds and ounces forgetting your grams and kilograms
8) You are scared of getting hit on the road because you are used to seeing the opposite direction for traffic.
9) You go onto sit in the left seat in the front of your friend’s car to realizing the steering presence
10) You realize Malls are not vertical structures but spread out areas
11) Safeway or Albertsons are the only places where you can buy your grocery and you do it once in every 20 days
12) Virtually every restaurant is owned by a big company and offer the same menu across the country
13) You realize you are lost and there is no one to ask for directions
14) You carry your GPS everywhere you go, blindly following the left and right directions by a female voice.
15) You need a GPS or Google Maps to reach home from any X point
16) You hear people saying “You have a good one” not knowing what that one is
17) You start using your iCalendar or Outlook for trivial noting down trivial tasks like meeting your friend for coffee
18) You walk into a bar and realize you don’t know the names of any of the drinks they have
19) Caffeine seems like an inevitable tonic for day to day activities
20) You look at the backside of even Lays to find out Calories and Sodium content
21) You have to look carefully to choose between low fat, non-fat, high fat, half and half Milk!
22) You realize that coffee is not equal to a 3-hour conversation. It is a drive through or a To-Go affair.
23) You realize that there is something called Voicemail and everybody uses it
24) Electric switches, water handles and almost everything works in the opposite sense. Luckily the clock is still the same clockwise and anticlockwise.
25) You take flu shots to prevent flu
26) Rebecca is Becky, Katherine is Kathy, Gregory is Greg, Robert is Bob and James is Jim
27) Everybody thinks you speak Indian
28) You suddenly realize that Macy’s is where you buy all your clothes
29) You see everybody having a pickup truck
30) Honeywell makes your fan and you get GE cameras.
31) You have two bank accounts called Checking and Savings
32) You buy a shredder to shred all your credit card bills. Identity theft is right at your door step
33) You pay $6 every month for your trash
34) Everybody asks me whether I want to stay in the States or go back as if I have escaped some hardship in India
35) They make you set your clocks one hour behind and ahead calling it Day Light Saving
2) Multiplication and Division by 50 seem to be easy but important tasks
3) You get up at all weird times during the first week
4) You realize that Comcast is the only Internet Service provider
5) You are made to sign on two year contracts on virtually any phone you buy
6) You start using the Internet for trivial tasks like looking up the weather that too on the Fahrenheit scale
7) You count in pounds and ounces forgetting your grams and kilograms
8) You are scared of getting hit on the road because you are used to seeing the opposite direction for traffic.
9) You go onto sit in the left seat in the front of your friend’s car to realizing the steering presence
10) You realize Malls are not vertical structures but spread out areas
11) Safeway or Albertsons are the only places where you can buy your grocery and you do it once in every 20 days
12) Virtually every restaurant is owned by a big company and offer the same menu across the country
13) You realize you are lost and there is no one to ask for directions
14) You carry your GPS everywhere you go, blindly following the left and right directions by a female voice.
15) You need a GPS or Google Maps to reach home from any X point
16) You hear people saying “You have a good one” not knowing what that one is
17) You start using your iCalendar or Outlook for trivial noting down trivial tasks like meeting your friend for coffee
18) You walk into a bar and realize you don’t know the names of any of the drinks they have
19) Caffeine seems like an inevitable tonic for day to day activities
20) You look at the backside of even Lays to find out Calories and Sodium content
21) You have to look carefully to choose between low fat, non-fat, high fat, half and half Milk!
22) You realize that coffee is not equal to a 3-hour conversation. It is a drive through or a To-Go affair.
23) You realize that there is something called Voicemail and everybody uses it
24) Electric switches, water handles and almost everything works in the opposite sense. Luckily the clock is still the same clockwise and anticlockwise.
25) You take flu shots to prevent flu
26) Rebecca is Becky, Katherine is Kathy, Gregory is Greg, Robert is Bob and James is Jim
27) Everybody thinks you speak Indian
28) You suddenly realize that Macy’s is where you buy all your clothes
29) You see everybody having a pickup truck
30) Honeywell makes your fan and you get GE cameras.
31) You have two bank accounts called Checking and Savings
32) You buy a shredder to shred all your credit card bills. Identity theft is right at your door step
33) You pay $6 every month for your trash
34) Everybody asks me whether I want to stay in the States or go back as if I have escaped some hardship in India
35) They make you set your clocks one hour behind and ahead calling it Day Light Saving
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