You know you're West Indian if:
* you've never seen your parents kiss or do anything remotely romantic! (esp your GrandParents)
*You have something that represents your country hanging from your rearview mirror
*YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE 'SENT FOR THE BELT'
*When you get beats, its to a riddim example: .. didnt...(insert lick)... i....(insert lick)... ...tell.....(insert lick)...you.......(insert lick)... not......(insert lick)...to......(insert lick)...do....(insert lick)...that!...(insert X amount of licks)
*When you go to someone's house late in the evening you tell the host 'Good Night'
*YOU WALK WITH YOUR OWN PEPPER SAUCE!!
*When you were little and you got licks and start to cry your Mum would ask, ' Yuh want something to cry fah?'
*SORREL IS A CHRISTMAS DRINK, NOT EGGNOG
*WHEN YOU REACH HOME YOU CHANGE INTO HOUSE CLOTHES
*you bring home left over food from any function and any party
*WHEN YOU GET 98 OUT OF 100 ON A TEST.. YUH PARENTS ASK YOU 'WHAT DE RASS HAPPEN TO THE OTHER 2 MARKS??'
*Someone in your family is a mechanic
*You show disapproval by sucking your teeth
*You have a thyme (or mint) bush growing somewhere in your yard.
*'SOON COME' IS A FIGURE OF SPEECH
*You hate to throw away empty containers as they might come in handy for pepper sauce or 'green seasonings'.
*You call stupid people ningcome poop, dotish, tootoombey, or chupidee.
*You tried hiding from licks
*you know that blue soap makes white clothes whiter.
*You say words like Heg (instead of Egg); Hingland (instead of England).
*you have at least one relative living in Canada or the US
*You know the difference between Wine, Whine and WINE!!!
*You can call your fellow country man by an ethnic name fondly and it would be okay. eg: darkie, reds, dougs, chinee-man, creole, red-man, white-boy
*you can indetify someone as coollie in an instant
*you can Insert blank here... 'Who don't hear ________ feel!!'
*You have been Beaten with an extention cord, a nintendo or tv cable, hanger or your mom's house slippers or the POT SPOON and when it break you get beat for
breaking it
*THERE IS ALWAYS VASELINE IN THE HOUSE
*everybody is always expecting something when u go back to the west indies.
*everybody is expecting something when u come back from the west indies.