1. You're at an expensive western restaurant and don't even notice the guy at the next table yelling into his cell phone
2.You enjoy karaoke
3.You walk backwards in the park listening to a transistor radio
4.The China Daily is your source for hard hitting, fast breaking,investigative journalism
5.You smoke in crowded elevators.
6.All white people look the same to you
7.You like the smell of the bus.
8.You find state-employed retail staff helpful, knowledgeable andfriendly
9.You no longer need tissues to blow your nose
10.You find western toilets uncomfortable
11.You throw your used toilet paper in the basket (as a courtesy tothe next person)
12.You think that the heavy air actually contains valuable nutrientsthat you need to stay healthy
13.You think a 30 year old woman who carries a Hello Kitty lunch boxis cute
14.A sexual pervert is a man who prefers women to money.
15.It's OK to throw rubbish, including old fridges, from your 18th-floor window
16.You believe that pressing the lift button 63 times will make itmove faster
17.You aren't aware that one is supposed to pay for software1
8.You are not surprised to see your tap water run dark brown
19.You tell your parents their house back in your home country has bad feng shui
20.You think that a $7 shirt is a rip-off
21.You always leave tray and trash on the table when you are inStarbucks because you insisted it is the way to keep everyone employed
22. You buy an XXXL T-shirt in store when you returned home
23.You take large sum of cash whenever you go hospital in your home country
24.You have no reservations about spitting sun flower seeds on the restaurant floor
25.You think it's silly to buy a new bike when it'll get stolen soon and stolen bikes are half the price.
26.You'd rather pay the 10 yuan for an all night stay at the internet cafe than the 30 for a taxi home.
27.You don't ask your 30 year old girlfriend if she wants to stayover cause you know her mom won't let her stay out past 2.
28.You feel cheated if you don't receive a full head and shoulder massage when getting a haircut
29.You blow your nose or spit on the restaurant floor (of course after making a loud hocking noise)
30. You no longer wait in line, but go immediately to the head of thequeue
31.It becomes exciting to see if you can get on the lift before anyone can get off
32.It is no longer surprising that the only decision made at a meeting is the time and venue for the next meeting
33.You no longer wonder how someone who earns US$ 400.00 per month can drive a Mercedes
34.You accept the fact that you have to queue to get a number for the next queue
35.You believe everything you read in the local newspaper
36.You have developed an uncontrollable urge to follow people carrying small flags
37.You regard it as part of the adventure when the waiter correctly repeats your order and the cook makes something completely different.
38.You are not surprised when three men with a ladder show up to change a light bulb
39.You look over people's shoulder to see what they are reading
40.You honk your horn at people because they are in your way as you drive down the sidewalk
41.When car accidents become a source of heart warming humour
42.When shopping at Carrefour some laowai stares you down for catching you looking into his basket while you wonder to yourself what laowai's eat
43.You have figured out that it is actually the Taiwanese who are running this country
44.You have a pinky fingernail an inch long
45.You burp in any situation and don't care
46.You start to watch CCTV9 and feel warm and comforted by the governments great work
47.You think Pizza Hut is high-class and worth queueing for
48.You have learnt how to detect someone is in a hurry behind you,and now have the ability to not only walk very slowly but also grow eyes in the back of your head, so when they start to overtake on the right hand side, you automatically cut in and walk very slowly directly in front of them
49.When you are able to jump the queue because the idiot laowai left2 centimeters between themself and the person in front of them
50.You have absolutely no sense of traffic rules
51.You start calling other foreigners Lao Wai
52.You start cutting off large vehicles on your bicycle
53.The last time you visited your mother, you gave her your businesscard
54.You think no car is complete without a tissue box on the rearshelf and a feather duster in the trunk
55.You go to the local shop in pajamas
56.When looking out the window, you think "Wow, so many trees!"instead of "Wow, so much concrete!"
57.Pollution, what pollution?
60.Someone doesn't stare at you and you wonder why
61.Firecrackers don't wake you up
62.Your family stops asking when you'll be coming back
63.You wear out your vehicle's horn before its brakes
64.You buy a top-of-the-line karaoke machine
65.Forks feel funny
66.Chinese remakes of Western songs sound better than the originals
67.You get homesick for Chinese food when away from China
68.You realize that smiling and nodding is Chinese body language for, "Go away; leave me alone."
69.After being in an accident, you tell the ambulance driver which hospital to take you to
70.You think of "salad" as diced apples in mayonnaise
73.You don't bother to take the sticker off the lenses of your fakeRay-Bans
74.You only wear a suit when you dig ditches or do home repairs
75.Your handshake is weakening by the day
76.You compiled a 3-page list of weird English first names that Chinese people of your acquaintance have chosen for themselves.
77.Your collection of business cards has outgrown your flat
78.You and a friend get on a bus, sit at opposite ends of the bus,and continue your conversation by yelling from one end to the other
79.You cannot say a number without making the appropriate hand sign
80.You like the taste of Green Tea and Chivas
81.You start recognising the chinese songs on the radio and sing along to them with the taxi driver
82.You feel insulted when you enter a restaurant and only three waiters welcome you
So very true!!
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