You Know You're from... When... (appointed, sales, credit)

[DoubleXAs]

Since the NYC boroughs are so different....let me do the Bronx

You know your from the Bronx......


When everybody around you is either Puerto Rican, Dominican or Black

When your 6 story building is falling apart

When the only time you seen a private home is in your dreams

When you know all the drug dealers on the block, personally

When you know what a "bodega" is

When your middle school is as dangerous as high schools

When you shop at Fordham rd

When you idea of fashion is white tee, white uptowns and a white fitted

When you food shop at Bravos or C-town

When you have been accosted by the cops atleast once

When you can get liquor in the corner store and be under 21

When you see no graffiti and you feel out of place

When you and all your friends are living in poverty

When you hear arguments and fight at 4 am

When your upstairs neighbor blares spanish music all night

When there's always somebody hanging out on your block at all times

When you see a pretty girl and start hurling compliments like a wild man

When your high schools are no different than juvenile detentions\

When you double check your eyes if you saw a white person

When you refer to Manhattan as downtown

When you have friends in projects

When your girl has played you

When there is a party every weekend

When your idea of fun is fu**ing, smoking, and drinking

When you have not finished high school

When you refer to downstairs as "the block"

When you dont use neighborhood names but instead use your home address when ask where you live

When your idea of take out food is chinese food


more to come

[terryclinker]

Originally Posted by breeze823

Really, you don't do number 9?
And number 11 sounds icky

We don't do number 9, we just say "yep" after someone else tells us "Thank you"

And about 11, this is cornhole

[fruitlassie]

You know you're from Omaha when...

You think the future construction of a pedestrian bridge across the river to Council Bluffs is evidence that you live in a progressive city.

You think having condos downtown is evidence that your city is progressive and liberal.

You think a handful of city blocks' worth of older brick buildings housing galleries, boutiques and restaurants is something really unique and special.

You consider the birthplace of one of the most insignificant US presidents to be a prime attraction.

You consistently and blindly vote your city as being the "best" in every poll on C-D no matter if you have been to the other places in the poll or not.

[tpabes]

You had to bring the Omaha saga into this didn't you.

Anyway, here is Nebraska.
1. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.
2. "Vacation" means going to Omaha for the weekend.
3. You measure distance in hours.
4. You know several people who have hit deer more than once.
5. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
6. You use a down comforter in the summer (because you run the A/C at 55 degrees).
7. Your grandparents drive at 65 mph through 13 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.
8. You see people wearing hunting clothes at social events.
9. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
10. You think of the major food groups as beer, beef, and beans.
11. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use them.
12. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
13. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
14. You think sexy lingerie is tube socks and flannel pajamas.
15. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, construction
16. It takes you 3 hours to go to the store for one item even when you're in a rush because you have to stop and talk to everyone in town.
17. You actually understand these jokes and forward them to your friends from Nebraska.

[breeze823]

Originally Posted by terryclinker

We don't do number 9, we just say "yep" after someone else tells us "Thank you"

And about 11, this is cornhole

I've seen people play this before
I wonder if "yep" after thank you is also a Ks thing? I knew someone who did that all the time and it would drive me crazy because it sounds rude, didn't know it was a regional thing.

[Katarina Witt]

Originally Posted by tpabes

You had to bring the Omaha saga into this didn't you.

Anyway, here is Nebraska.
1. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.
2. "Vacation" means going to Omaha for the weekend.
3. You measure distance in hours.
4. You know several people who have hit deer more than once.
5. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
6. You use a down comforter in the summer (because you run the A/C at 55 degrees).
7. Your grandparents drive at 65 mph through 13 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.
8. You see people wearing hunting clothes at social events.
9. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
10. You think of the major food groups as beer, beef, and beans.
11. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use them.
12. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
13. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
14. You think sexy lingerie is tube socks and flannel pajamas.
15. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, construction
16. It takes you 3 hours to go to the store for one item even when you're in a rush because you have to stop and talk to everyone in town.
17. You actually understand these jokes and forward them to your friends from Nebraska.

Some of these are repeats from other posts. Or was it supposed to be that way?

DH from Nebraska does #6.

I don't get the jumper cables part. Don't you carry cables everywhere?

[kidyankee764]

Originally Posted by breeze823

I wonder if "yep" after thank you is also a Ks thing? I knew someone who did that all the time and it would drive me crazy because it sounds rude, didn't know it was a regional thing.

I've noticed the "yep" thing when I went to Omaha. Here in CT, people nod as if to say "you're welcome." That, too, can come across as rude but just like the "yep," it's a regional thing.

[j33]

I see nobody has done Chicago yet. Here ya go.

You know you are from Chicago when...

You live three miles from work and it takes 45 minutes to get there.
You drink at bars called "Bud on Tap" or "Old Style" - no names for the bars, just beer signs out front.(my landlord owns one of them, it is two doors down from my two-flat)
It's January and there is two feet of snow on the ground, and you see a couple of broken kitchen chairs in the street with a 2x4 resting on them, you know that if you put them back on the sidewalk (or move them and park your car there) you will be shot on sight.
You don't flinch when you pay the fifth toll of your 45 minute car ride on the highway
You've played 16-inch softball
You've tried several times to identify the Picasso sculpture in Daley Plaza, and have decided it's just a big baboon. (and now we have a giant bean! yay)
You're not sure what state Carbondale is in.
You know Lincoln Towing is Satan incarnate (they even had a song written about them "Lincoln Park Pirates")
You've paid $105 for towing, $50 for more than one "street cleaning" ticket, $75 for a city vehicle sticker, and $70 for a license plate sticker and chalk it all up to "neighborhood taxes."
You've cursed at a cyclist, pedestrian, or in-line skater on the lakefront path.
You've discovered the hard way that people don't communicate through honking one's car horn in other parts of the country.
You know the significance of State and Madison.
You can decipher a WMAQ traffic report, but your out of town passenger thinks it's just gibberish.
Grocery stores are the only type of retail entity that get a definite article: "I'm going to The Jewel" or "I'll stop by The Dominick's on the way home.
You give driving distances in minutes or blocks, never in miles. (I think of everything in terms of blocks, it is sad really)
You "know a guy"
You can tell within minutes of meeting someone if they're probably a Cubs fan or a Sox fan (mostly true, but things are starting to change)
"The Super Bowl" refers to one specific game in a series of 35 played in January of 1986

[JoshB]

You know your from Wisconsin when....


Your idea of a traffic jam is 10 cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.

"Vacation" means playing miniature golf at the Dells.

You've seen all the biggest bands 10 years after they were popular.

You know what's knee-high by the Fourth of July.

A clean bowling shirt is appropriate attire for a wedding.

You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it, no matter what time of the year.

You end your sentences with an unnecessary preposition. Example: Where's my coat at?" or "If you go to town, I wanna go with."

All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, or animal.

You install security lights on your house and garage and then leave both unlocked.

You carry jumper cables in your car.

You own just three spices: salt, pepper, and ketchup.

You design your Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.

You define -20 degrees F "a little chilly."

You know all four seasons: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and Construction.

You can gauge the depth of your relationship by the number of fingers your friends use to wave to you as you pass by on the road.

You measure distance in minutes.

The corner bar is decorated with neon Pabst signs instead of hanging ferns.

You know several people who have hit a deer.

Your school classes were cancelled because of cold.

Your school classes were canceled because of heat.

You've ridden the school bus for an hour each way.

You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.

You hear someone use the word "oof-dah" and you don't immediately break into uncontrollable laughter.

You see people wear bib overalls at funerals.

You think everyone from a bigger city has an accent.

The local paper covers national and international headlines on one page, but requires six pages for sports.

You think that opening day of deer season is a national holiday.

Your definition of a small town is one that only has one bar.

You refer to the Packers as "we."

A significant portion of your relatives work on a dairy farm.

You can make sense out the words upnort and Trivers.

You can identify a Michigan accent.

You learned to drive a tractor before the training wheels were off your bike.

Down South to you means Chicago.

Traveling coast to coast means going from Superior to Milwaukee.

The Big Three means Miller, Old Milwaukee, and Pabst Blue Ribbon.

A brat is something you eat.

You were offended by the movie Fargo.

You know that Eau Claire is not something you eat.

You have no problem spelling Milwaukee.

You consider Madison exotic.

You know that Gotham is a real city.

You can actually pronounce Oconomowoc.

You go out for fish fry every Friday.

You can recognize someone from Illinois or Iowa by their driving.

Bernie Brewer is your idol because he gets to dive into a giant beer mug.

You know how to polka.

You can visit Luxemburg, Holland, Belgium, Denmark, Berlin, New London, Poland all in one afternoon.

You've seen mosquitoes with landing lights.

You have more miles on your snowblower than your car.

At least twice a year, your kitchen doubles as a meat processing plant.

Your snowblower gets stuck on the roof.

Bucky the Badger hangs on your Christmas tree even if you didn't go to University of Wisconsin-Madison.

You’ve considered voting Brett Favre for president.

You can use the word “ya der hey? easily in a sentence.

Your screen saver is a bitmap image of your favorite truck, tractor, or farm animal.

Stores don't have bags; they have sacks.

You define Summer as three months of bad sledding.

You have ever gotten frostbitten and sunburned in the same week.

Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a cow next to your blue spruce.

A Friday night out is taking your girlfriend shining for deer.

You tell someone where you are from and they say, "I thought that was part of Canada."

FFA was the most popular club in high school.

You have eaten a cream puff at the State Fair.

You have to drive thirty minutes to the nearest movie theater.

At every wedding you have been to you have had to dance the hoky poky and the chicken dance.

You ever went to a wedding reception in a bowling alley.

You know it's traditional for the bride and groom to go bar hopping between the ceremony and the reception.

You own at least one cheese head.

Sunday afternoons are sacred for the Packer game.

Saturdays are sacred for the Badger game.

You have ever been to State Street in Madison during a protest of something.

You get irritated at sports announcers that pronounce it "Wes-con-sin."---Grrrrr

You have experienced snow storms in May.

You have had school closed due to wind chills and frostbite warnings.

You know what a "flat-lander" is and you know all the "why Wisconsin is better than Illinois" jokes.

You get choked up when you hear the University Marching Band play "On Wisconsin" or "Varsity."

You have partied at "Summerfest."

You or someone you know was a "Dairy Princess" at a county fair.

Sexy lingerie is tube socks and a flannel nightie.

The most effective mosquito repellent is a shotgun.

The trunk of you car doubles as a deep freezer.

Your hometown buys a Zamboni when they need a bus.

You drive 65 miles per hour through snow without flinching.

It takes you three hours to go to the store for one item even when you're in a rush because you have to stop and talk to everyone in town.

You buy your Christmas presents at Farm and Fleet or Fleet Farm.

You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.

Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new machine shed.

[JoshB]

Originally Posted by tpabes

You had to bring the Omaha saga into this didn't you.

Anyway, here is Nebraska.
1. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.
2. "Vacation" means going to Omaha for the weekend.
3. You measure distance in hours.
4. You know several people who have hit deer more than once.
5. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
6. You use a down comforter in the summer (because you run the A/C at 55 degrees).
7. Your grandparents drive at 65 mph through 13 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.
8. You see people wearing hunting clothes at social events.
9. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
10. You think of the major food groups as beer, beef, and beans.
11. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use them.
12. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
13. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
14. You think sexy lingerie is tube socks and flannel pajamas.
15. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, construction
16. It takes you 3 hours to go to the store for one item even when you're in a rush because you have to stop and talk to everyone in town.
17. You actually understand these jokes and forward them to your friends from Nebraska.

I didn't realize Nebraska and Wiscosnin had so much in common.lol