Muy Bueno |
Muy Bueno |
YOU KNOW YOU'RE A LATINO IF...
You have ever been spanked with chanclas. | |
You have later been spanked with the plancha chord. | |
You know your mom is sneaking up on you because you can hear her chanclas on the linoleum floor. | |
Your mother yells at the top of her lungs to call you to dinner and you only live in a one bedroom apartment. | |
You can get to your house blindfolded by the smell of the chuletas. | |
You light a candle the night of the Lotto drawing. | |
You get scared whenever someone mentions "el cucuuuuiii". | |
You go to the Pulga or Swapmeet every weekend for gear. (Two points if you actually enjoy it!) | |
Go to a function and judge the women's fashions (wearing a sequence butterfly print top you got from the pulga.) | |
You have gone to Titi's house and passed through the beaded curtain in the living room. | |
You step into a house that has all those little figurines taking up every inch of space on/under the TV and you have a porcelain cat, dog, Buddha or elephant in your livingroom. | |
You have plastic slipcovers on your sofas. | |
You swear "Choco Mil" is the same as Slim Fast and try to lose weight by drinking it. | |
You have a perpetually drunk uncle. | |
You're still afraid to open that umbrella in your house. | |
You know at least one person in your family named Maria, Carlos, Papo, Juan, Jose, Tony, Tito or Luis. | |
You not only know who Don Francisco from Sabado Gigante is, but you tell people he's your tio. | |
Your mother, tia or hermana's hair is blackcherry, "Sun in" red or a burgundy that would make Celia Cruz jealous. | |
You always try to find out what town another fellow Latino's family is from. | |
You call: rug -carpeta; roof | |
rufo; parking | |
parking, libreria instead of biblioteca | |
or to knock | |
knockiar and chips-ruffles. | |
You have ever had to -beepiar | |
a friend on their pager. | |
You wear your Sunday best to do laundry at the laundrymat and go grocery shopping. | |
You have told your kid not to walk the floor barefoot or they'll catch a cold. | |
Your tia Chencha thinks that silver banana clips are on Vogue's hot list for hair. | |
You go to a wedding or Quiencienera, gossip about how bad the comida is, but be the first to take a plato to go. | |
You drink all beer with limon and salt. (Two extra points for a splash of Tapatio) | |
Your sister has more mustache hair than your father. | |
One of your aunts or mom weighs over 300 pounds. | |
You have a bottle of Tapatio in your purse. | |
Your cousins are delinquents/hootchies. | |
You have a chola in your barrio named "La Flaca: who's bigger than a house. | |
You think Cristina trumps Oprah any day. | |
Your uncle owns more gold than that jewelry shop down the street. | |
You have your country's flag hanging from your rear view mirror. | |
You have a cousin named "Guero" who's darker than night. | |
You know a chola named "La Shy Girl" who is loud and obnoxious. | |
Your mom made you put lettuce under your bed the night before Three King's Day so that the camels had something to eat and they leave you a gift in return. | |
Your family never lets you forget the day you missed Mother's Day. | |
You need to point out how much something you just bought cost. | |
You can dance merengue, cumbia and salsa without music. | |
You go to at least 3 weddings a year. | |
You use manteca instead of olive oil and can't figure out why your ass is getting bigger. | |
You dread those boring stays with family in the campo. | |
You just can't imagine anyone not liking Spanish food. | |
You go to a white friends house for dinner and dont understand the concept of sitting at a table. | |
You've tried to bring a mango back to the US from Mexico, and a bonus point if you actually made it all the way home with it. | |
You have sat in a two-passenger car with over seven people in it. | |
You have a bottle of Bacardi or Tequila in your house right now. | |
You have a picture of Jesucristo in your house. | |
You have at least TWO statues of saints in your house (and a bonus point if one of them La Virgen de Guadalupe). | |
You go to Church on Easter, Christmas and New Years just to see what everyone is wearing and find out all the latest chisme. | |
You're an adult and you're still forced to be with your family at 12 midnight on New Years Eve. | |
You walk around saying chacho, chacha, ay bendito or Buey. | |
You get anothers attention by saying "chhh chhh" or "Pssssst." | |
You drive a Cheby(Chevy), an Ohsmobeel (Oldsmobile) or a Bolswahgon (VolksWagen). | |
You call your sneakers tenis. | |
Your car has fifteen speakers in it and you fix it every weekend. | |
You have at least thirty cousins. | |
You sit more then 10 people in a 5 person car. | |
You start clapping when your plane lands on the runway. | |
And last, but not least your grandmother thinks she has the miracle cure for everything. |