You know you've been in Munger for far too long when

1. You speak Hindi with a flourish but somehow your sentences always end in a sing-along, e.g. Humne toh bola thaa naaaaaaaaaa"!!

2. Your blood pressure shoots up whenever any local/native starts talking to you in the trademark slow and sing along way, building a context to a story which leads nowhere... and you feel like either

     a. Gouging the eyes out of the person sitting in front of you

           or

     b. Tearing at your own hair

3. Your nose ceases to react to the odorous vapours emanating out of drains on main roads where every morning you are greeted by the sight of people either defecating or urinating!

4. You get used to  "Hurrr Hurrr" ing the cows and the goats assembled in the middle of the main thoroughfare to reach home!

5. You ask for Lemon Tea Chai when what you want is Lemon tea (thats what it is called here- Lemon tea chai!)

6. The main issues confronting you at the workplace are 

   a. How to absorb the cost of Dustbins without impacting the budget

   b. How to deal with people coming to the factory in Lungi/Dhoti

7. Your conversations with other people begin with the sentence "Do saal pehle yahan par...."

8. Your first reaction to any assignment given to you is "Ye kaise hoga" or worse still "Ye nahin ho sakta"!

9. You mourn others' transfer and celebrate the arrival of a new inmate to this loony bin!

10. And last but not the least, YOU DO KNOW THAT YOU'VE BEEN IN MONGHYR FOR FAR TOO LONG WHEN you can answer the question, "Sir, Hamara 'ethi' mein 'ethi' ho gaya tha. Hum 'ethi' karein?"