You know you are a Mangi when : 1. Sunday morning breakfast has to be sanna and sorpotel. 2. Konkani is never spoken, always sung. 3. At all family gatherings, (after a few drinks) the older men of the family will bring out their guitars and sing dirty songs and everyone will actually join in. 4. Every other Mangy is a far off relation. 5. Your parents say you have to marry only a Mangy because apparently, the other communities arent good enough. 6. Every trip to Mangalore includes gadbad from Pabbas/ Ideals. 7. Your brother-in-law is called Bhaoji 8. You wear high-heels to a dance and then go bare foot on to the dance floor because it is more comfortable. 9. Every sentence must start with a kaale gi and end with a oui gi 10. You invite family to visit you overseas and give them long lists of things you need from India . 11. You have two-three middle names, which was either your grandmothers or grandfathers first name and most of which others cant pronounce. 12. If youre a girl and your 22, you will get at least 3 proposals from Mangy men much older than you. 13. You love sea-food. 14. You meet another Mangy and you both will know at least 10 people related to either of you. E.g. Shes my mothers aunts sister-in-laws maidservants niece. 15. You love going on and on about whom your grandfather was and what he did. 16. You will ask your relatives traveling from Mangalore to bring you prawn/fish pickle. 17. You make sure they also bring you some Mangalorean sweets. 18. You pile yourself with gold at weddings and sneer at women wearing simple jewellery. 19. If your man, youve often gotten drunk at the weddings. 20. You know what a baila is and you love dancing to it. 21. If youre not married before your 28, the community will start to wonder if there is something wrong with you. 22. In the 70s, at least 60% of all the Mangi men went to the gulf and were known as Gulfys. 23. Youve learnt the skill of bargaining from your mother and its something youre proud of. 24. You have at least 30 first cousins and 70 second cousins. 25. Your family tree is so large; its a family orchard not a family tree. 26. Your parents have either made you play the piano, the violin or both or you had to go for singing lessons. 27. Your mother has a minor disagreement with her relatives and doesnt talk to them for ten years 28. Everyone is a family friend. 29. Youre walking out of customs with your trolley at the airport and you see all 25 members of your family who have come to pick you up. 30. Your entire family is constantly fighting over property they all inherited from somebody else. 31. You eat last nights curry the next morning. 32. You love Ballal buses and have travelled in one. 33. You love Vas Bakery. 34. You never understand how the bus drivers actually get away with their rash driving on the streets. 35. The roads are so bad that youre always complaining about pot holes. 36. Your friends call you a bewadi and you love the fact that they do so. 37. Your entire community knows everything about everyone and nothing is a secret. 38. You only look to date Mangalorean men so that they can turn in to potential husbands. 39. You are a man and you start losing hair and your belly grows when youre just thirty-five. 40. Your mothers main aim in life is to please your father. 41. You love your bachelor party (Roce) and actually enjoy grandmothers crooing to songs you dont understand while people drown you with coconut milk and you still have to smile and look pretty through it all. 42. You dont know if your ancestors were Saraswat Bhramins or Portuguese. 43. If youve lived in Mangalore, your curfew is 5:30p.m 44. Your parents either have one brother called Wilfy, an uncle called Peddy, a cousin called Vally Dattu, a distant aunt called Yellubai (nickname for Aunty Helen), a neighbor who is called Jillibai or Pimpy, and a dog called Tommy. 45. You always end your sentences with No. For eg: She met with an accident. So sad, no? 46. You are annoyed when people think youre Goan. 47. Every time you visit Mangalore, youre dragged by your parents to meet assorted aunts who feed you kuswar and make you drink Bicola. 48. The cure for any illness is payz, lonche aani Kasai. 49. You can get onto any bus in Mangalore and you know that wherever the bus goes, you will always land up in Hampankatta. 50. Again, in the 70s- 70% of the Mangy men joined the Merchant Navy and were referred to as Shippys 51. To all who live outside the south - you assert that youre from No, not Bangalore , but Mangalore with an M.
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