You know you're in Nicaragua if:

1. Clothes lines are made of barbed wire.
2. There are 6 year-olds wearing 3 inch heels.
3. To fit in with the locals you need to remove the letter "s" from your vocabulary.
4. Taxi drivers wear one long sleeve (the arm that hangs out the window of course).
5. You see horse carts, overcrowded bicycles and cars on the same road.
6. Men on the street don't hesitate to call out any english words they know to you (including "love you", "good night", "where you from" and "whiskey").
7. Babies wear bracelets to protect them from evil spirits.
8. The sewage pipes empty into the street.
9. Men on the street are making kissing faces at you wherever you go.
10. Everyone who is anyone has a guard and a gate.