YUH KNOW YUH IS AH TRINI IF.......

Contributed by D Art Man

• Yuh does always go for ashes on Ash Wednesday

• Ash Wednesday yuh go Maracas and yuh  must  meet people yuh know

• Yuh does buy an expensive bath suit and never get it wet. Yuh does roll around in the sand hoping to attract ah man.

• Yuh does wear anything that in style, and no matter how bad yuh look yuh friends will never tell you.

• Yuh talk about how much fete yuh went to for carnival with yuh friend, when yuh never even leave yuh house.

• Yuh know what "gimme a red" stands for.

• If somthing cost $xx.99cents you wait for the cent.

Contributed by By Giselle & Randel Rampersad

• Anytime yuh neighbour fowl cock taking ah stroll in yuh yard, ah true trini will cut he troat and call he friends and buy ah bottle ah puncheon and ah pack ah dumuria and call that ah
  fete like dey say

Contributed by Stacey, Trini living in New York

• You know what saltprunes are... 

• You say "ah telling yuh"... even if someone else is the one who's telling you what happened...

• You know what "ah hop a drop" means..

• One of your relatives drives a maxi-taxi..

• You ever got licks with a rollin'-pin, a swizzle-stick, or a pot-spoon.

• Your kids know all of the words to Machel Montano's latest song, but they don't know their multiplication tables..

• Every Sunday you have "Sunday Lunch"  which consists of macaroni pie, calaloo with crab, stewed chicken, plantain, dasheen...

• You say "ah goin' down de road" even if you're going very far..

• When someone says How are you...  you say you "poke ah poke"..

• You ever got licks as a child for not saying Good Morning", "Good Evening", or "Good Night"  to everyone in the house...

Contributed by Chris Seemungal

• yuh put ah hood ornament on yuh car (angel with lighted wings) cause yuh tink it look cool.

• Yuh badtalk someone when dey back turn but yuh say yuh was only giving them fatigue.

• yuh know how to to make choka with anything potato, tomato,bigan...

• yuh know how to eat greens (watercress)

• yuh know what Hops bread is.

• yuh know about Guniness stout, Sea moss (Irish moss) and black cake and yuh not even Irish.

Contributed by "rpccb"

• You have a rosary on your rear view mirror.

• You can talk in any accent of any country to foreigners(or try to) but automatically switch back to a trini accent if yuh meet another trini.

Contributed by Ian Mohan

• You  return from New York and  wear a New York t-shirt and cap and yuh talk Yankee.

• You waiting in the airport to see the  plane take off, then you pleased .

• You go to funerals to come back home  and tell how  much the family bawl. And how the  dead look .

• You think taking a bath by the  stand  pipe  is normal .

• You think picking the neighbour's  fruits is expected .

• Wear  thick black stylish jacket to go lime down town and it blazing  hot.

• You think Guardian paper is an all purpose paper : for reading , wiping  windows and replacing toilet  paper.

• You put Pepper sauce first  thing on pizza.

• Your  trousers short ,we say  if you expecting  flood .

• Someone  blocks you , you don't say  excuse meh , you ask "Is your  father  a Glass Maker ?"

• You call a fart a PUM.

Contributed by Chaguanas gyul
 

• yuh stop in the middle of the road to talk to somebody at least once an doah care who waiting behind yuh

• yuh always say somebody 'bad drive me dey' even if it is yuh who do the bad driving

• yuh  have driven in a taxi in which the driver hangs his hand outta d window

• yuh get lost driving to someplace and yuh don't admit it

• yuh  have gone to Maracas and eaten pelau out of the back of your car

• yuh  say 'aye' but do not know the meaning of it

• yuh  'bad talk' somebody at least 5 times

• yuh  call Port of Spain 'town' when it is really a city

• yuh  have gone down Chaguanas to lime @ least once.

Contributed by Patty

• you know that wine is not a drink, it is  a circular motion of the midsection

• you know that people don't eat bananas fresh, they boil them

• you call a banana a fig

• you know the meaning of dd (dine and dash) 

• you could fete in the midst of a disaster

Contributed by "Trini930"

• yuh does still bathe with blue soap