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YOU KNOW YOU'RE A GUYANESE, WHEN...
You describe all chewing gum as either "Chico".
You collect "plastic bags" from the supermarket and re-use them until they burst up.
You cover all your furnitures with plastic.
You're still cooking "gas bottle" .
You still prefer dipping water from bucket instead using the shower.
You tell people that you have family living "overseas" or "foreign".
You refer to sneakers as "Yaatin Boots".
You like "chew up" your chicken bones and suck out the marrow.
You refer to all clear cleaning fluids as "Marvex".
You like eat "fish head" and "suck out the eyes".
You still "pick rice."
You always use one of the following in a sentence:
(a) Bannas
(b) Man
(b) Chap
(b) Padna
Your idea of "just now" ranges from 5 minutes to 5 hours.
Your concept of time is not related to clocks but to something your mother use to cook with.
you know what's a "saro boy" is, and you have one or two of them.
If you (personally) know at least one 'catchar' who has 'cut up yuh runnings'.
You can understand how the words "yuh big scunt" can be either an affectionate greeting, or a gross insult.
During a conversation someone mentions the word "backoo" and you know what it means. Further you know that they are kept in a "brown bottle" and live on bananas and milk.
You know what "COCOBEY" is.
You know when is "Dig Dutty Day".
You play wid fire, you gon pee you bed.
You know that an "English Duck" is not an animal.
You know that a "dam bed" is not furniture in the house.
You know " Coolie water rice, poke-n-spice, wash u-b-t with dhal-n-rice."
You call a quarter a "Bobb".
You what's a "pookney".
When you pickney get "bad eye" you take 'em to the pandit or maygee to jarray 'em, or you does ouchie 'em yourself.
You know that dhal puri is a type of puri and not a roti.
You know that "Married man poke" is not flesh from pigs.
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