You know you're in Kerala when...

You know you're in Kerala when...

• The licence plates read KL.
• Every word has more than 3 syllables.
• Words are spelled differently and pronounced differently.
• Every road leads to a beach.
• Bananas come in 4-5 different varieties.
• You don't just peel and eat the bananas, you make fritters, chips, cakes, curry and many more things out of them.
• Everyone has curly/wavy hair.
• Oiling your hair is second to compulsion.
• The women generally tie their hair in half making it look poofy.
• The men sport mustaches (you're not considered a man if you don't).
• Everyone speaks too fast.
• If you don't know how to pronounce a certain place, remember the first syllable and murmur the rest.
• The lanes are narrow but still folks use it as a two way lane.
• Every other house either has a banana tree or a palm tree with coconuts.
• Despite getting bananas everywhere they're still sold in shops by the dozens.
• Everything is cooked in or with some form of coconuts.
• It's always hot!
• Everyone knows someone who has been to or is in Dubai/Sharjah/Gulf countries.
• Every other shop is a bakery.
• Every other person is an Engineer.
• Family go to pubs together.
• Everyone does yoga/teaches it.
• People openly stare if a girl is wearing jeans and a top other than a kurti.
• Majority of women are either busty/big hipped.
• Every bank offers gold loan.
• The people are very hospitable.
• There are only a handful of places where the 'young' crowd can hangout. (That's flooded with families too!)
• Talcum powder's used as foundation.
• People are either too skinny/overweight.
• Every other billboard has Mohan Lal/Mamooty either promoting their movies/advertising a product.
• By 10 the city looks like a ghost town.
• Everyone's educated and has a minimum of 2degrees/diplomas.
• Men don't mind being seen in colorful lungis with jazzy patterns and blinding colours.
• The rice is different than normal rice.
• Seafood's easily available. (Penguins and Polar bears need to migrate to India's coastal areas!)
• Everyone develops too fast but looks younger than their age eventually. They literally stop ageing!