This is fun for those who have lived in or around
Bombay...
B_O_M_B_A_Y

Bombay has no bombs and is a harbour not a bay.
Churchgate has neither a church nor a gate. It is a
railway station.There is no darkness in Andheri.

Lalbaag is neither red nor a garden.

No king ever stayed at Kings Circle.

Nor did Queen Victoria stay at Victoria Terminus.

Nor is there any princess at Princess street.

Lower Parel is at the same level as Parel
There are no marines or sailors at Marine Lines.
The Mahalaxmi temple is at Haji Ali not at
Mahalaxmi.

Teen bati is a junction of 3 roads, not three lamps.
Trams used to terminate at Kings circle not Dadar*Tram
Terminus (Dadar
T.T.).
Breach Candy is not a sweetmeat market.
Safed Pool has the dirtiest and blackest water.
You cannot buy coal at Kolsa street.

There are no Iron smiths at Lohar chawl.

There are no pot makers at Kumbhar wada.
Lokhandwala complex is not an Iron and steel market.


Null bazaar does not sell taps
You will not find ladyfingers at Bheendi Bazaar.
Kalachowki does not have a black Police station.
Hanging Gardens are not suspended.

Mirchi Gully does not sell chillies.
Figs do not grow in Anjir Wadi,
Sitafals do not grow in Sitafal Wadi,
Jackfruits do not grow at Fanaswadi
But it is true that you may get fleeced at Chor
Bazaar!!! AAMCHI MUMBAI

A City where everything is possible. Especially the
impossible.
Where lovers first love and then marry, Where there is
place for every Tom,
Dick and Harry
Where telephone bills make a person ill, Where a
person cannot sleep
without a pill.
Where carbon-dioxide is more than oxygen,Where the
road is considered to be
a dustbin,

Where college canteens are full and classes empty,
Where Adam teasing is also making an entry,
Where a cycle reaches faster than a car,
Where everyone thinks himself to be a star,
Where sky scrapers overlook the slum,(USHA kIRON)
Where houses collapse as the monsoon comes,
Where people first act and then think, Where there is
more water in the pen
than ink,
Where the roads see-saw in monsoon, Where the beggars
become rich soon,

Where the roads are levelled when the minister
arrives,

Where college admission means hard cash,
Where cement is frequently mixed with ash.
This is Mumbai my dear, But don't fear, just
cheer,come to Mumbai
every year!
THINGS TO PROVE YOU'RE A BOMBAYITE.
1. You say "town " and expect everyone to know
that*this means
south of Churchgate.
2 You speak in a dialect of Hindi called 'Bambaiya
Hindi', which
only Bombayites can understand.*
3. Your door has more than three locks.
4. Rs 500 worth of groceries fit in one paper bag.
5. Train timings ( 9.27, 10.49 etc) are really
important events of life.
6. You spend more time each month traveling than you
spend at home.
7. You call an 8' x 10' clustered room a Hall.
8. You're paying Rs 10,000 for a 1 room flat, the size
of walk-in
closet and you think it's a "steal."
9. You have the following sets of friend: school
friends, college
friends, neighborhood friends, office friends and yes,
train
friends, a species unique only in Bombay.

10. 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.

11. Stock market quotes are the only other
thing*besides cricket
which you follow passionately.
12. The first thing that you read in the Times of
India is the
"Bombay Times" supplement.
13. You take fashion seriously. You're suspicious of
strangers who
are actually nice to you.
14. Hookers, beggars and the homeless are invisible.

15. You compare Bombay to New York's Manhattan instead
of any other cities
of India.

16. The most frequently used part of your car is the
horn.

17. You insist on calling CST as VT, and Sahar and
Santacruz
airports instead of Chatrapati Shivaji International
Airport.

18. You consider eye contact an act of overt
aggression.
19. Your idea of personal space is no one actually
standing on your toes.
20. Being truly alone makes you nervous.

21. You love wading through knee deep mucky water in
the monsoons,
and actually call it ''romantic'.

22. Only in Bombay, you would get Chinese Dosa and
Jain Chicken.