COURTESY : BUZZFEED
- 1You have nearly gotten into a fist fight with an auto guy over the rate
- 2You have wished horrible things on some auto drivers, and you have shared your life secrets with some other auto drivers
- 3Whenever friends from other cities talk about how great their place is you have shut their argument down with the ₹120 ticket cap for theatres
- 4You know who the Aandavan of Alwarpet is
- 5You’ve gone to the 4 a.m. show at Rohini Theatre for a Thalaivar release
- 6You’ve stood in line for a ₹10 ticket
- 7You’ve stood in line at a TASMAC
- 8You don’t have any shame in asking your foreign return friends to pick up copious amounts of booze from the duty free store for you, because TASMAC
- 9You used to have a bootlegger before “elite” TASMAC opened
- 10Now you know which of the Elite TASMACs have the best stuff
- 11It’s taken you a while to digest, and accept the fact that Anna Nagar and Shollinganallur are considered “city limits”
- 12You’ve watched the sun rise at Elliot’s beach
- 13You’ve watched the sun rise at Marina beach
- 14You’ve watched the sun rise at Thiruvanmiyur beach
- 15You cannot get enough of the maanga and kadala sundal at the beach despite your mother’s warnings about its possible effects on your stomach
- 16You’ve shot balloons at the Marina beach and felt very dangerous
- 17You’ve had biryani at SAMCO
- 18You’ve had biryani at Velu Military
- 19You’ve had tiffin from a Kaiyendhi Bhavan
- 20Your first pizza was from Hot Breads
- 21You’ve had food at Saravana Bhavan so many times now that it’s literally the last place you’ll go to when you’re hungry
- 22…And yet, every time you travel, you end up going to an HSB branch at least once. AT LEAST ONCE. ADMIT IT.
- 23You’ve had chaat, jalebis and baadam milk at Mint Street
- 24You’ve had the keera vadai at Karpagambal Mess
- 25You can’t stand sweet sambar
- 26Your school field trips/excursions have consistently been to Birla Planetarium, Egmore Museum, Guindy Zoo and Crocodile Bank
- 27Your first “road trip” with your friends/cousins was to Pondy
- 28Your vehicle has been checked by the police for booze smuggling on your way back from Pondy to the city
- 29You’ve bribed a policeman
- 30You’ve refused to bribe a policeman
- 31Your vehicle has been apprehended and you have been made to blow into a policeman’s breathalyzer while returning home late
- 32You’ve been to a kutcheri at The Music Academy
- 33You’ve frequented sabhas during the December music season not for the concerts, but for the canteens
- 34You’ve seen a play at The Museum Theatre
- 35You’ve taken the MTC bus to get around
- 36You once passed on ticket change from the bus conductor that was actually meant for you
- 37You honed your elbowing skills by taking the 21C
- 38You’ve taken the suburban train
- 39You’ve taken the MRTS
- 40You’ve taken the MRTS during off-peak hours and spent your time in the (empty) station and in the (empty) train praying that you don’t get abducted
- 41You hate the metro rail construction that’s happening right now and blocking up all the roads
- 42When a part of the metro was inaugurated though, you took a ride anyway, just to see what the fuss was about
- 43Each time you pass the first (and original) Landmark, you look in that direction and your heart sinks a little
- 44You’ve been to a cricket match at Chepauk
- 45You’ve been to a rained out cricket match at Chepauk
- 46You think, no, you know, that the greatest IPL team ever is the Chennai Super Kings
- 47You know whose number 9841072571 is
- 48You judge people based on whether they say “Chennai” or “Madras”
- 49Girls: Your first bra was from Naidu Hall. Boys: Those headless bra statues on Naidu Hall’s display were a subject of endless fascination during your teenage years
- 50You miss street shopping at Pondy Bazaar
- 51You have a guy at Ritchie Street who can fix any gadget
- 52You’ve gotten lost inside Spencer Plaza
- 53You’ve gotten lost in Ranganathan Street
- 54You’ve always wanted to shop at Amethyst and Anokhi but ended up becoming too broke for it just by paying for the coffee there
- 55You still refer to Crowne Plaza as Adyar Gate
- 56You don’t know from where this trend of adding “ji” to fully tamil sentences came from, and you don’t understand it.
- 57You add “ji” to fully tamil sentences.
- 58Most of the swear words you know are those that you picked up while yelling at/being yelled at in traffic
- 59You would never admit this openly - but you’re actually not offended by the word ‘Madrasi’ because as far as you’re concerned, you *are* Madrasi
- 60You volunteered during the Chennai Floods of December 2015, and thought the whole ‘Spirit of Chennai’ thing was a little silly at first, but you don’t ever remember being more proud of your city than you were then.
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