Meme From thumbie
1) Go to google and type in "You know you're from (your state here)....."
2) Pick out whichever list strikes your fancy and bold the ones that apply to you.
3) Italicize the ones you think are totally wrong
4) Post it
Well, I found *two* lists that I liked, so I used them both. Deal. =o]
* You think Central Park is "nature."
* You're paying $1,200 for a studio the size of a walk-in closet and you think it's a "steal."
* You've been to New Jersey twice and got hopelessly lost both times.
* You pay more each month to park your car than most people in the U.S. pay in rent.
* You go to dinner at 9 and head out to the clubs when most Americans are heading to bed.
* You have 27 different menus next to your telephone.
* Going to Brooklyn is considered a "road trip."
* America west of the Hudson is still theoretical to you.
* You're suspicious of strangers who are actually nice to you.
* You take a taxi to get to your health club to exercise.
* Your idea of personal space is no one actually standing on your toes.
* $50 worth of groceries fit in one paper bag.
* Your doorman is Russian, your grocer is Korean, your deli man is Israeli, your building super is Italian, your laundry guy is Chinese, your favorite bartender is Irish, your favorite diner owner is Greek, the watch seller on your corner is Senegalese, your last cabbie was Pakistani, your newsstand guy is Indian and your favorite falafel guy is Egyptian.
* You say "the city" and expect everyone to know that it means Manhattan.
* You secretly envy cabbies for their driving skills.
* You have never been to the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building.
* You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Columbus Circle to Battery Park at 3:30 on the Friday before a long weekend, but can't find Wisconsin on a map.
* Hookers and the homeless are invisible.
* The subway makes sense.
* The subway should never be called anything prissy, like the Metro.
* You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you multi-lingual.
* You think $7.00 to cross a bridge is a fair price.
* You've considered stabbing someone just for saying "The Big Apple."
* Your door has more than three locks.
* You go to a hockey game for the fighting. In the stands. To participate.
* Your favorite movie has DeNiro in it.
* The most frequently used part of your car is the horn.
* You consider eye contact an act of overt aggression.
* You call an 8' x 10' plot of patchy grass a yard. You complain about having to mow it.
* You are a skee-ball juggernaut.
* You consider Westchester "Upstate."
* You cried the day Mayor Ed Koch took over for Judge Wapner.
* You run when you see a flashing "Do Not Walk" sign at the intersection.
1) You're 35 years old and don't have a driver's license..
2) You ride in a subway car with no air conditioning just because there are seats available. You and the other three passengers look at each other and know you have pure grit.
3) You take the train home and you know exactly where on the platform the doors will open that will leave you right in front of the exit stairway.
4) You know what a "regular" coffee is
5) It's not Manhattan, it's the "City".
6) You get upset that a cabbie is obeying all the rules of the road
7) You're willing to take in strange people as roommates simply to help pay the rent.
8) There is no North and South. It's uptown or downtown. If you're really from New York you have absolutely no concept of where North and South are.
9) You cross the street anywhere but on the corners and you yell at cars for not respecting the fact.
10) You move 8,000 miles away, spend 10 years learning the local language and people still know you're from Brooklyn the minute you open your mouth.
11) You return after 10 years and the first foods you want are a "real" pizza and "real" bagel.
12) A 500 square foot apartment is large.
13) Your co-worker commutes 45 minutes by train to a 2,000 square foot house in the suburbs that was the same price as that same 500 square foot apartment of yours that takes only 35 minutes to get to and you think he's a sucker.
14) You know the differences between all the different Ray's Pizzas.
15) You are not under the mistaken impression that any human being would be able to actually understand a P.A. announcement on the subway.
16) You have at least 50 menus in your apartment, two thirds of which you have neither ordered from nor even heard of.
17) You wouldn't bother ordering pizza in any other city.
18) You know that off - the - shelf insecticides are just laughing gas to the superior roaches cohabiting with you in the 500 square foot apartment.
19) You get ready to order dinner every night and must choose from the 4 major food groups: Chinese, Italian, Mexican or Indian.
20) You're not in the least bit interested in going to Times Square on New Year's Eve.
21) Your internal clock is permanently set to know when Alternate Side of the Street parking regulations are in effect.
22) You know what a bodega is.
23) You know how to fold the New York Times in half, vertically, so that you can read it on the subway or bus without knocking off other passenger's hats.
24) Someone bumps into you, and you check for your wallet.....
25) You don't even notice the nice lady walking down the road having a perfectly normal conversation with her self.
26) You pay "only" $230 a month to park your car.
27) You cringe at hearing people pronounce Houston St. like the city in Texas.
28) The presidential visit is a major traffic jam, not an honor.
29) Film crews on your block annoy you, not excite you. (They take up all the parking spaces!)
30) You can nap on the subway and never miss your stop.
2) Pick out whichever list strikes your fancy and bold the ones that apply to you.
3) Italicize the ones you think are totally wrong
4) Post it
Well, I found *two* lists that I liked, so I used them both. Deal. =o]
* You think Central Park is "nature."
* You're paying $1,200 for a studio the size of a walk-in closet and you think it's a "steal."
* You've been to New Jersey twice and got hopelessly lost both times.
* You pay more each month to park your car than most people in the U.S. pay in rent.
* You go to dinner at 9 and head out to the clubs when most Americans are heading to bed.
* You have 27 different menus next to your telephone.
* Going to Brooklyn is considered a "road trip."
* America west of the Hudson is still theoretical to you.
* You're suspicious of strangers who are actually nice to you.
* You take a taxi to get to your health club to exercise.
* Your idea of personal space is no one actually standing on your toes.
* $50 worth of groceries fit in one paper bag.
* Your doorman is Russian, your grocer is Korean, your deli man is Israeli, your building super is Italian, your laundry guy is Chinese, your favorite bartender is Irish, your favorite diner owner is Greek, the watch seller on your corner is Senegalese, your last cabbie was Pakistani, your newsstand guy is Indian and your favorite falafel guy is Egyptian.
* You say "the city" and expect everyone to know that it means Manhattan.
* You secretly envy cabbies for their driving skills.
* You have never been to the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building.
* You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Columbus Circle to Battery Park at 3:30 on the Friday before a long weekend, but can't find Wisconsin on a map.
* Hookers and the homeless are invisible.
* The subway makes sense.
* The subway should never be called anything prissy, like the Metro.
* You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you multi-lingual.
* You think $7.00 to cross a bridge is a fair price.
* You've considered stabbing someone just for saying "The Big Apple."
* Your door has more than three locks.
* You go to a hockey game for the fighting. In the stands. To participate.
* Your favorite movie has DeNiro in it.
* The most frequently used part of your car is the horn.
* You consider eye contact an act of overt aggression.
* You call an 8' x 10' plot of patchy grass a yard. You complain about having to mow it.
* You are a skee-ball juggernaut.
* You consider Westchester "Upstate."
* You cried the day Mayor Ed Koch took over for Judge Wapner.
* You run when you see a flashing "Do Not Walk" sign at the intersection.
1) You're 35 years old and don't have a driver's license..
2) You ride in a subway car with no air conditioning just because there are seats available. You and the other three passengers look at each other and know you have pure grit.
3) You take the train home and you know exactly where on the platform the doors will open that will leave you right in front of the exit stairway.
4) You know what a "regular" coffee is
5) It's not Manhattan, it's the "City".
6) You get upset that a cabbie is obeying all the rules of the road
7) You're willing to take in strange people as roommates simply to help pay the rent.
8) There is no North and South. It's uptown or downtown. If you're really from New York you have absolutely no concept of where North and South are.
9) You cross the street anywhere but on the corners and you yell at cars for not respecting the fact.
10) You move 8,000 miles away, spend 10 years learning the local language and people still know you're from Brooklyn the minute you open your mouth.
11) You return after 10 years and the first foods you want are a "real" pizza and "real" bagel.
12) A 500 square foot apartment is large.
13) Your co-worker commutes 45 minutes by train to a 2,000 square foot house in the suburbs that was the same price as that same 500 square foot apartment of yours that takes only 35 minutes to get to and you think he's a sucker.
14) You know the differences between all the different Ray's Pizzas.
15) You are not under the mistaken impression that any human being would be able to actually understand a P.A. announcement on the subway.
16) You have at least 50 menus in your apartment, two thirds of which you have neither ordered from nor even heard of.
17) You wouldn't bother ordering pizza in any other city.
18) You know that off - the - shelf insecticides are just laughing gas to the superior roaches cohabiting with you in the 500 square foot apartment.
19) You get ready to order dinner every night and must choose from the 4 major food groups: Chinese, Italian, Mexican or Indian.
20) You're not in the least bit interested in going to Times Square on New Year's Eve.
21) Your internal clock is permanently set to know when Alternate Side of the Street parking regulations are in effect.
22) You know what a bodega is.
23) You know how to fold the New York Times in half, vertically, so that you can read it on the subway or bus without knocking off other passenger's hats.
24) Someone bumps into you, and you check for your wallet.....
25) You don't even notice the nice lady walking down the road having a perfectly normal conversation with her self.
26) You pay "only" $230 a month to park your car.
27) You cringe at hearing people pronounce Houston St. like the city in Texas.
28) The presidential visit is a major traffic jam, not an honor.
29) Film crews on your block annoy you, not excite you. (They take up all the parking spaces!)
30) You can nap on the subway and never miss your stop.