You Know You're Puerto Rican If...

We've all seen the list, but it's been a while, so here's a reminder:

You Know You're Puerto Rican If...

• You have been spanked with "chancletas".
• You know your mom is sneaking up on you cause you can hear her "chancletas" flapping on the linoleum floor.
• Your mother yells at the top of her lungs to summon you to dinner and you're in the next room.
• You have ever called linoleum floor a "rug".
• You can get to your house blindfolded by the smell of the "chuletas".
• You say "Vamos pa' encima" instead of "Let's get started".
• You get scared whenever someone mentions "el CUUUCO"!!!
• You remember every Christmas those "aguinaldos" that abuela used to sing for you.
• You have gone to Titi's house and passed through the "bead curtain" in the living room.
• You step into a house that has all those little figurines taking up every inch of space on the TV and under the TV.
• You have a porcelain cat/dog/rooster or elephant in your living room.
• You have a perpetually drunk uncle.
• You know someone in your family named Junior, Mari, Chucho, Papo, Tito or Carmen.
• You know Don Francisco from Sábado Gigante.
• You call rug -carpeta , roof-rufo, parking-palkin, stress-estress, library- libreria (instead of biblioteca), boiler-boila, sucker-soca, or to knock-noquiar.
• You have told your kid not to walk the floor barefoot or they'll catch a cold.
• You need a cup of coffee after every meal.
• Your aunt has more mustache than your father.
• Your cousin’s cousins are delinquents.
• Your uncle owns more gold than that jewelry shop down the street.
• You have sat in a two-passenger car with over seven people in it.
• You put a big Puerto Rican flag on your car come June.
• You have a picture of "Cristo" in your house.
• You think your name begins like this "Ave Maria purísima, Richard"
• You walk around saying "chacho" or "chacha" or "ay, bendito".
• You have said, "no, hombe" instead of "no, hombre" to both sexes.
• You do that funny pointing thing with your nose and if the person doesn't understand you, you use the lips for emphasis.
• You can speak with your face, ex: twitch like a rabbit to ask "what do you want?".
• You used to drive a "cheby" (chevy)!
• You call all sneakers "tennis" shoes and Converse are "los champions".
• All cereal is called "con-flei".
• All brands of diapers are called "pampel" or "pampers".
• You have ever ground plátanos for pasteles during Christmas time.
• Your car has fifteen speakers in it and you fix it every weekend.
• Your dinner consists of a "mixta", rice and beans and some kind of meat.
• You know the difference between Carolina rice and everything else.
• You have ever lived in the Bronx or Brooklyn.
• Your uncle has a wife and a "corteja".
• You have ever put a penny on your forehead to stop a nose bleed.
• Your mother has put a balled up piece of thread on your baby cousin's forehead to stop her hiccups.
• You have at least thirty cousins.
• You know how to drive "estandard" or "estick" shift.
• You can tell the difference between Bustelo and anything else.
• A coqui's sound has driven you crazy.
• And last, but not least, your grandmother thinks Vick's vapor-rub is the miracle cure for everything.

Courtesy of http://www.jibaros.com/ (A great site I highly recommend)