So true....

YUH KNOW YUH IS A TRINI IF.....

• Yuh refer to all salt crackers as "Crix".
• Yuh know the meaning of the word "obzokie".
• Yuh own a cutlass.
• Yuh know how to "scootch" somebody.
• Yuh can name 3 types of mangoes.
• Yuh call everybody "dread"
• Yuh know what a "grip" is and struggle to keep it under 70 lbs. when yuh goin` back home.
• Yuh know dat to "cuff" and "box" are fightin adjectives.
• Yuh call every bee, wasp, or hornet a "jaxspaniard".
• Yuh pronounce San Juan: "Sah-Wah"
• Yuh tired of hearin "Who let da dogs out?" cause yuh know de original by Anslem is de REAL thing.
• Old dub like "Ram-Ram" brings back some special memories.
• When yuh leave yuh does "ride out" and yuh coming back "in a timing."
• When yuh crossing de road, and cars speeding toward yuh, yuh does say "Well bounce meh nah!"
• Yuh don't look at traffic lights when crossing de road.
• Yuh does say, "Ah tell yuh!", even when someone else is telling you the story.
• Yuh put salt on every citrus fruit yuh eat to make it sweeter.
• Yuh can avoid potholes with true skills.
• Yuh grow up on Klim, Milo, Horlicks or Ovaltine.
• Speaking of that, yuh remember eating Ovaltinees, Smarties, Catch bars and Cheers candy?
• Every carbonated beverage is called a "sweet drink"
• A good lime is not edible.
• "A beer is a....." (fill in the rest)
• "Donkey's years" means a very long time.
• Yuh clap with everybody else when de BWEE plane finally land in Port of Spain.
• Yuh know what coki-eye is.
• Yuh call it a car park instead of parking lot.
• Yuh call chewing gum "tring gum"
• Yuh always seem to meet someone yuh knew in secondary school or dey cousin went to school with you.
• De bone taste jus as good as de meat.
• "Haul yuh tail!" have nothing to with a moving truck....ENT??
• Yuh give directions with your hands... even if it's in another state (yuh jus go up de road and when yuh see...)
• Yuh go to parties for the food... and the word free never quite had the same meaning.
• Yuh nod your head upwards to greet someone... and sideways when the joke stale.
• Your recipe for making orange juice is plenty water, plenty sugar, plenty ice and only 2 orange... and "ah pak ah red kool-aid tuh stretch it..."
• Yuh say "boy" at the beginning of a sentence and "man" at the end of it... and the words "yes we" doesn't refer to any people...
• Yuh hate to wait in long lines, a habit you adopted from the days of pushing to get into "pit" to see a movie.
• 'Priority' doesn't have anything to do with what you have to do right away.
• Yuh always turn around when someone says "Psssssssst"... except for when you make out the person first and you're duckin' them.
• Yuh say "Soooo looooong" instead of "Yes, I'm done" when somebody asked you if you finished the job already.
• Yuh have "knick knacks" all over your home... and a glass cabinet or a space saver to put them in.
• Yuh put ketchup and peppersauce on your pizza. Anchovies? Yuh lossin it or what?
• Yuh make a drink and ice cream with peanut butter but you never put it on bread with jelly... but you might put it on your dixie biscuits.
• Your cupboards are full of canned corned beef, pepper sauce and red beans and baked beans ...and a dry coconut for the pelau.
• Yuh think steak is a waste of good meat. Yuh rather cut it up and stew it with some potatoes instead ... or curry it and make roti.
• "What goin on these days?" and "I jus dey" mean "Hello, how are you?" and I'm fine" respectively.
• Yuh think your rum and Carib beer are the best in the world and you hate it when nobody heard of them.
• Yuh put ice in your beer ...and you chew the ice when you're finished with the beer.
• Yuh say "Old Years' night"
• "Dis August holidays" actually start in July.
• Yuh show disappointment / disgust by sucking on your teeth (steupsing)
• Yuh still call a soda a "sweet drink" and an avocado, a "zaboca"
• Yuh go to the shoprite clerk and ask them "whe allyuh have de breez?" meaning "where is the laundry detergent?".
• Yuh say "whappenin" even at a funeral.
• Yuh tell the host "Good Night" when you arrive at someone's home in the evening.
• Yuh wash the "wares" after having dinner.
• When someone sympathises with you, you comment "Yuh think it easy?"
• Yuh refer to all sweet coloured juice as "Kool-Aid"
• Yuh call a quarter a "schilling" when this really means 24 cents.
• Yuh know that using "blue" makes white clothes whiter.
• Just because something is called a "bake" you don't assume that it indicates the way it was cooked.
• Yuh have at least one relative living in either England, Canada, or the US.
• Yuh know that a washy-kong bears no relationship to King Kong.
• Yuh have cancelled plans because of rain even when you're going to be indoors ...Rain is also a legitimate reason to be late for a rendez-vous... or to miss work.
• Yuh know someone with a gold tooth.
• Yuh know someone with their name either on their belt buckle or their chain.
• All vaccinations are called injections.
• Yuh are able to recite at least one (or several) line(s) from Sesame Street.
• Yuh have been to at least one party where you have seen the sun rise.
• Yuh know the meanings of: "washing wares"; "straightening a room"; "bodice"; "sucking yuh teeth"; "cut-eye"; "hot foot"; "bouff".
• All dish washing detergents are called "Squeezy".
• Yuh still give people (youself included) "meggies".
• A rubber is an eraser.
• Yuh know of at least one person who wakes up at 4am to LISTEN to cricket from Australia / New Zealand on the RADIO.
• Yuh can feel cold when it's 25°C.
• No matter how old you are, you still call your parents Mummy and Daddy.
• Yuh still eat fries with ketchup AND MUSTARD.
• Yuh call fries "chips".
• Yuh pronounce words in plural, even though it's meant to be singular, eg."gimme ah COKES" or "ah GRAPES".
• Yuh say "FLIM" (film), "AXE" (ask) or "PITIAH"(picture), "STATELLITE" (satellite), "CUTLASH" (cutlass). .
• Yuh know what "Wukking a 10-days" is, and know darn well it's going to take much longer than 10 days.
• Yuh know that a lime is not necessarily a fruit.
• Yuh call little kids "po po" or "betah" and your girl/boyfriends "daahlin" or "punkin".
• Yuh call any 'older' woman "Tantie" and any 'older' man "Uncle", regardless of whether or not they are related to you or even know you.
• Yuh could sing an entire Parang song in Spanish word for word, but don't speak or understand a word of Spanish.
• Yuh know who "Anansi" and "Papa Bois" are.
• Yuh love Soca and know the meanings of RAMAJAY and DINGOLAY.
• When in doubt of how to prepare something to eat ... CURRY is the always the solution.
• Yuh know Trinis will curry any and everything (not just meat) even mango, fish, conch, chataigne, etc...
• Yuh can take anything and make "chow" with it.
• Yuh know what "chow" is.
• Yuh can call your fellow "countryman" by an ethnic name and it would be ok, eg. chinee-man, creole, doegs, or pyol.
• When you ask for PEPPER you don't mean ground black pepper.
• Yuh get "licks" already with a guava whip :(