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You Know You're From Lynchburg, VA If...
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1. On every corner, there are at least 3 churches.
2. On every corner, there is at least 1 or more banks.
3. There is at least ONE dollar store in each shopping plaza.
4. No matter how early or late you are for an event, you will ALWAYS get behind a SLOW old person, even if you are on backroads.
5. You ALWAYS have to pass in the RIGHT lane.
6. The best tanning salons are run by three partners: a guy in his late 40's that thinks he is 17y/o, another guy in his late 50's that thinks the best word is FREE, and the 3rd guy is never IN lynchburg.
7. You know that JF students think Brookville students are the most stuck up while Brookville students think that of JF students, yet neither is ANY different.
8. You know what it means to "cruise wards".
9. You know there are a total of 6 colleges but don't think of your town as a "college town".
10. You love it when it snows just enough for Rustburg to not be able to open schools up, because even if you can get to school, you will be closed too(Brookville--campbell county area).
11. No matter what main road you are on, there are at least two car dealerships CALLING your name.
12. All the kids you went to high school with drive nicer cars than you because their parents bought it for them.
13. You talk to a friend in NY and say, "HEY, DID YOU HEAR THIS COOL SONG? It's NEW??" and they tell you, "No dude, that song is OLD!" (Yeah, Lynchburg hears the new music, LAST!)
14. You know what is meant by "Harvard on the Hill," "UCLA," "29 Tech," and "Central VA Clown College."
15. Almost every PT Cruiser you see has a lisence plate to tell you that the person is driving a PT Cruiser, as if you didn't know that ugly thing WAS A PT CRUISER!
16. You have ever had Jerry Falwell almost run you over in his big black suburban.
17. You know about the 5th street prostitutes in Downtown Lynchburg.
18. You don't think it's ironic that all the churches in Downtown Lynchburg are on Court St. and the Lynchburg Court House is on Church St.
19. You see people in older Ford Escorts, 4 door Saturns, kias, and Volvos driving down the road with expensive, fancy spoilers on the back and wonder if those people know it looks STUPID!
20. You have ever seen a handicapped school bus chopped to make a tow truck out of it.
21. People turn so slow in front of you that you have to almost come to a complete STOP behind them.
22. Nobody ever moves over to the left hand lane when you are trying to merge from an offramp onto a highway.
23. Only a select few know that an acceleration lane is for you to do JUST THAT: ACCEL! Apparently everyone thinks you are supposed to slow down to 40MPH to merge onto a highway w/ a speed limit of 55MPH.
24. You know the difference between Candlers Station on a Saturday night as opposed to any other night.
25. You can differentiate between an LC student and an LU student from 100 paces.
26. You can find the T-room or the Cavalier blindfolded.
27. The hair on your neck spikes up a little bit when you enter "Mad Heights".(may not apply to all)
28. You don't enter "Mad Heights" all that often,(also may not apply to all, cause i go through Mad Heights often to get to Williamsburg)
29. You know what "Mad Heights" is!
30. You remember Penny Lenny or the Mutant at the Mall.
31. You despise Lynchburg most of the time but there is a 90-95% chance you will live your entire life here.(many move away and almost ALL come back)
32. You've been pulled over on Enterprise Dr. or have come damn close to it.
33. You constantly complain about how bored you are and how there is absolutely NOTHING to do.
34. You think it's cool to sit in fast food parking lots(McDonalds and Rally's <-- the "Thug" lots), K-mart parking lot <-- Redneck lot, Wal-Mart parking lot <-- also "thug" lot, and you compare cars and argue over who's is "coolest" and "fastest", and who has more STICKERS!! (All of this is done during the "Cruising" of Wards Rd.)
35. You understand the reasons why cops are brought in to walk around the football field during BIG, rival football games.(Heritage Vs. E.C. Glass and Jefferson Forest Vs. Brookville)
36. It's 98 degrees outside, and all the city schools get to leave early because E.C. Glass has no air-conditioning, but all the county schools have to go the rest of the day!
37. You see ghetto cars that look like they are going to fall apart any minute with stickers in the windows with the name-brand of a stereo company only THAT ONE PERSON has heard of. Why do these people do that to themselves? I just don't understand it.
38. You brag to your friends about hitting a golf ball through the cannon at Tiny Town Golf all the way across timberlake road.
39. It's snowed enough to cover the roads and all the county schools are closed, but Dr. McCormick thinks that its safe for the city schools to go to school anyway.
40. Your school has ever been on lockdown because the PA Posse was coming.
41. Your school was called with a bomb threat and even though you have been evacuated, you know that if a bomb really did blow, you'd STILL die, because you are only on the FOOTBALL FIELD, and this happens at least 3 times a year!(Brookville students know ALL about that).
42. At least half the cars you see on the road are sporting an APC(American Product Company) Sticker on the back window.
43. You can hear the fireworks from City Stadium across the town..and they happen every week.
44. The highlight of the city life was the building of Target, Best Buy, and Barnes and Noble.
45. You get pure enjoyment out of throwing carts into the cartreturns at places like Kroger on Friday nights.
46. You notice that sometimes, you have a heavy southern accent, and other times, you have NO accent. Weird isn't it?
47. You spend your Friday nights at Sheetz on 460 or 221 (nothing else to do).
48. So many restaurants but nothing else to do.
49. Two clubs, one burnt down (Millenium) the other doubles as a line dancing place (Cattle Anne's).
50. Cattle Annies' term "Family night" really means drunk middle schooler night.
51. You have your picture in the counter at Friendly's.
52. You know that the same company owns both hospitals in town and yet you don't find that strange.
53. You hear they are building an Olive Garden and think you are moving up in the world.
54. There is a nail salon in every shopping center(with the stupid Dollar Stores!!).
55. Your zipcode is more than a number, it's a way of life!
56. You think you're cool because your zipcode is 24503.
57. You like to hang out with 03 kids when they party at places like a cul-de-sac- and Stop-In.
58. You don't think Oakwood Country Club is racist, I mean they're nice to YOU.
59. You've ever seen a drug deal go down at Stop-In on Boonesboro Rd. with a cop in the parking lot.
60. Your idea of a good pre-party to a formal is hanging out in a cul-de-sac drinkin Natty Light and laughing at the dead deer in the woods.
61. When you see a person driving a car from another city or state, you wonder what they are doing here. This place SUCKS, and even the college kids know it!(Why THEY come here no one knows!)
62. You want to know how all of the foreigners found out about Lynchburg and why they came here, because there is no way in hell that their country was THIS bad.
63. You remember the days when the Brookville kids hung out in the parking lot at Subway on Waterlick Rd! Hell, I was one of them once!
64.The longest line you will EVER see in Lynchburg is the line at Scare Mare on HALLOWEEN NIGHT!(Ironic since Falwell is the one who runs it!)
65. It snows EVERY Thursday, and it all starts on December 3rd.
66. Nobody uses turn signals when turning or changing lanes, they just kinda move over in front of you HOPING that they won't hit you!
67. You know what the term "LBC" REALLY stands for, yet you still use it to refer to your hometown.
68. You know all of the ladies in the T-Room by name. (Some of us don't like that place much!!)
69. You know what is meant by the phrase "I need a cheesy and a bowl."
70. You're either a cook, a waitress or a bartender, or if your lucky, you get to work in one of those really big buildings downtown.(Some of us work at Banks and everyone else works at KROGER!)
71. You know what street the J.Crew outlet store is on.(I know what street the J. Crew CALL CENTER is on!)
72. You walk or jog up and down rivermont.
73. You're picture has been in the toilet bowel frame in the Cav, that says "Customer of the Month."
74. You were excited when we decided to build one Sonic, we somehow got another right away!(UGH! That place is horrible)
75. The mall is a more exciting place to hang out or buy food, rather than shop.(No stores worth going to)
76. You know Trotters changed to Shadwells, but you can't seem to CALL it Shadwells, it will ALWAYS be Trotters.
77. You have EVER worked at the J. Crew call center on 1 Ivy Crescent, Lynchburg, VA 24501!!!
78. Everytime you go out to eat somewhere, you are SURE to see Jerry Falwell out eating also.
79. You've ever been hit on by the Mexican waiters at La Carreta.
80. You go to Scare Mare every halloween and they always try to make you go in the tent to hear about God and how you are probably going to HELL!(I ignore them and walk out!)
81. If your ABC station is the only one in the nation to REFUSE to air Jimmy Kimmel Live. (It's Jerry's fault!)
82. You find it "exciting" to go to Roanoke or Charlottesville for the night for the sake of having something to do!
83. You have noticed that in the past 2 years, there has been a MASSIVE increase in Cash Advance places, and they are starting to catch up to the Churches and Banks in town!
84. You ACTUALY know what a Cheesy Western is.
85. When asked where you are from, "The 'Burg" will do.
86. You hear certain college students yell out "YEAH BURG" at sporting events!
87. Flying to Atlanta is the longest 2 hours of your life (that's right, just 450 miles, but it still takes more than 2 hours for those damn prop plains to make it!).
88. Your city does not have an interstate, though all the smaller towns around it do.
89. You think moving into 03 from 02 is a big deal, and have a hard time getting accepted into 03 because you're FROM 02.
90. Flying on a large jet is exciting.
91. Any major concert or event takes place by the river.
92. The most exciting thing to do on a friday is go to Bull Buckin' in Boonsboro (I never did, but oh well!).
93. The highlight of your week is "Terrific Tuesdays" at the "dollar movies" where a movie only cost FIFTY CENTS!(noting that your bag of popcorn is just about equal to 8 tuesday movies).
94. Your parents tell you to stay away from downtown because it's "dangerous".(Yeah, all those old people might cane you to death!)
95. You realize how lame the Fair By The James is but yet you still keep going.
96. You notice how they call it the Fair By The James even though it's no longer by the James River.
97. You spend at least 2 hours with a group of friends sitting in the parking lot of Wal-Mart saying, "So what do you guys wanna do," over and over again until finally you all give up and just go home.
98. You find yourself running up the large set of stairs down town and when you get to the top yelling "Adrian".
99. You look forward to the new issue of "The Burg" even though you know it's not worth reading.
100. You notice that there are more white people that try to act black then there are black people that try and act black.
101. You find yourself trying to find The Church Of Spock. If you don't know what the Church of Spock is then you need to GO HERE and see what I'm talking about.
102. If ur school was ever let out 3 weeks early -- for mold problems ---- Jf.
103. If you have at least 1 friend who is a voulnteer firefighter or EMT.
104. If you brag about how good Mitchell's fried chicken is to a visiting relative.
105. If you've ever ridden a four-wheeler around the 13 mile loop connecting coffee and indered.
106. If you ever turned your truck mud-red from 4-wheeling on creek road.
107. If you have grown up with and gone to the same school with the same people since pre-school.
108. If everyone on the road starts driving 20 mph because of snow flurries
109. You're area is considered densely populated, but there are no pizza chains that deliver to your house.
110. If you are somehow related (by blood, or marriage) to over half of the inhabitants of the city.
111. When becoming "high tech" means that you are gaining 2 new lazer wash carwashes in town.
112. When you are so bored that S turns become a game (how fast did you go on Coffee Rd?) and the express way is the best place to drag race.
113. The fun thing to do while driving alongside friends is to 'race' to your location.
114. When there are 2 kinds of grafitti-- the "thug" kind (spray paint), and the "redneck" kind (skid marks). (hey man, come look at the marks I left on the Burg yesterday!)
115. When there are more animal doctors than there are people doctors.
116. When there are more "deer crossing" signs than any other kind of sign, and at least one near your house has a cowboy painted on the back of the deer. (note the one on 501 expressway.)
117. When half of your senior class is missing because it's the first day of deer season.
118. As a kid you went to at least 2 birthday parties at Skateland each year.
119. If you're from 03 you own a north face or mountain hardware jacket, a pair of birkinstocks and an L.L. Bean backpack.
120. You know to get in your car and drive away when someone comes up to you in a parking lot on Friday night and asks if you go to Liberty University (LU).(You also want to avoid the LU students that come up to you in the MALL! They do it A LOT!)
121. You know what "Hog Town" and "Over the River" means and avoid it.
122. You aren't confused by the intersection where Old Forest Road meets Old Forest Road and where Grace Street meets Grace Street.
123. You are driving 29 South and suddenly, though you haven't turned off, you are driving 501 North.
124. Reading the bathroom stall doors in the Food Court actually becomes entertaining, especially after they keep repainting them.
125. You know what it means to be a "townie".
126. You know someone who was kicked out of WalMart for playing tackle football inside.
127. Every car you saw had a coffee can on the muffler, primer spots, stickers, and "NOS" (not nitrous, oh no, no one knows what that is...strictly "NOS") after the movie Fast and the Furious came out.
128. Whenever you overhear people talking about their "fast" cars, it's always "Just wait 6 months...I've got somethin for you then! Just wait!"
129. You know the homeless people on Wards Road by name.
130. You notice the same "homeless" man infront of the mall or Target everyday with the same sign but different clothes.
131. One of your biggest thrills was the time you picked up one of the construction barrells out of your window on 221 while your friend was driving and moved 3 yards down the road.
132. If you know what it means when someone says they want it "hot, all the way"!! (This refers to orders at Yellow Sub when someone wants a hot sub with all the toppings.)
133. You get really angry at the dollar theater for changing the price on discount tuesday from 50 to 75 cents and refuse to go anymore on that day in protest of the increase in prices.
134. You refer to Tom Jones Drug Store as TJs, go there way too often, and love to watch newcomers try to get in and out of their crazy doors.(I'm not sure there are anymore of these around though. Oh well....CVS and Wallgreens has TAKEN OVER!! OMG!).
135. You notice that anywhere they put a NEW CVS Pharmacy, they just HAD to place a Wallgreens directly across the street!
136. You can tell which college the driver of a car goes to by looking in the back window. (Oh so true! CVCC, LC, LU....very different parking stickers.)
137. You've ever gone up to the top of Bald Mountain after a nice rain.
138. You think Poplar Forest Golf Course road is the worst in the world.
140. You have ever seen/drive route 666 in Forest.
141. You have ever seen the wall around Jerry Falwell's house and compared it to the Great Wall of China.
142. You remember when Graves Mill shopping center was a forest.
143. You thought when the Burger King was first put up, that indoor play area was the place to be.
145. If you know about seven different ways to get to where you want to go, its only a matter of what you want to drive past. (I found a new way to get back to 460 tonight! fun fun.)
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1. On every corner, there are at least 3 churches.
2. On every corner, there is at least 1 or more banks.
3. There is at least ONE dollar store in each shopping plaza.
4. No matter how early or late you are for an event, you will ALWAYS get behind a SLOW old person, even if you are on backroads.
5. You ALWAYS have to pass in the RIGHT lane.
6. The best tanning salons are run by three partners: a guy in his late 40's that thinks he is 17y/o, another guy in his late 50's that thinks the best word is FREE, and the 3rd guy is never IN lynchburg.
7. You know that JF students think Brookville students are the most stuck up while Brookville students think that of JF students, yet neither is ANY different.
8. You know what it means to "cruise wards".
9. You know there are a total of 6 colleges but don't think of your town as a "college town".
10. You love it when it snows just enough for Rustburg to not be able to open schools up, because even if you can get to school, you will be closed too(Brookville--campbell county area).
11. No matter what main road you are on, there are at least two car dealerships CALLING your name.
12. All the kids you went to high school with drive nicer cars than you because their parents bought it for them.
13. You talk to a friend in NY and say, "HEY, DID YOU HEAR THIS COOL SONG? It's NEW??" and they tell you, "No dude, that song is OLD!" (Yeah, Lynchburg hears the new music, LAST!)
14. You know what is meant by "Harvard on the Hill," "UCLA," "29 Tech," and "Central VA Clown College."
15. Almost every PT Cruiser you see has a lisence plate to tell you that the person is driving a PT Cruiser, as if you didn't know that ugly thing WAS A PT CRUISER!
16. You have ever had Jerry Falwell almost run you over in his big black suburban.
17. You know about the 5th street prostitutes in Downtown Lynchburg.
18. You don't think it's ironic that all the churches in Downtown Lynchburg are on Court St. and the Lynchburg Court House is on Church St.
19. You see people in older Ford Escorts, 4 door Saturns, kias, and Volvos driving down the road with expensive, fancy spoilers on the back and wonder if those people know it looks STUPID!
20. You have ever seen a handicapped school bus chopped to make a tow truck out of it.
21. People turn so slow in front of you that you have to almost come to a complete STOP behind them.
22. Nobody ever moves over to the left hand lane when you are trying to merge from an offramp onto a highway.
23. Only a select few know that an acceleration lane is for you to do JUST THAT: ACCEL! Apparently everyone thinks you are supposed to slow down to 40MPH to merge onto a highway w/ a speed limit of 55MPH.
24. You know the difference between Candlers Station on a Saturday night as opposed to any other night.
25. You can differentiate between an LC student and an LU student from 100 paces.
26. You can find the T-room or the Cavalier blindfolded.
27. The hair on your neck spikes up a little bit when you enter "Mad Heights".(may not apply to all)
28. You don't enter "Mad Heights" all that often,(also may not apply to all, cause i go through Mad Heights often to get to Williamsburg)
29. You know what "Mad Heights" is!
30. You remember Penny Lenny or the Mutant at the Mall.
31. You despise Lynchburg most of the time but there is a 90-95% chance you will live your entire life here.(many move away and almost ALL come back)
32. You've been pulled over on Enterprise Dr. or have come damn close to it.
33. You constantly complain about how bored you are and how there is absolutely NOTHING to do.
34. You think it's cool to sit in fast food parking lots(McDonalds and Rally's <-- the "Thug" lots), K-mart parking lot <-- Redneck lot, Wal-Mart parking lot <-- also "thug" lot, and you compare cars and argue over who's is "coolest" and "fastest", and who has more STICKERS!! (All of this is done during the "Cruising" of Wards Rd.)
35. You understand the reasons why cops are brought in to walk around the football field during BIG, rival football games.(Heritage Vs. E.C. Glass and Jefferson Forest Vs. Brookville)
36. It's 98 degrees outside, and all the city schools get to leave early because E.C. Glass has no air-conditioning, but all the county schools have to go the rest of the day!
37. You see ghetto cars that look like they are going to fall apart any minute with stickers in the windows with the name-brand of a stereo company only THAT ONE PERSON has heard of. Why do these people do that to themselves? I just don't understand it.
38. You brag to your friends about hitting a golf ball through the cannon at Tiny Town Golf all the way across timberlake road.
39. It's snowed enough to cover the roads and all the county schools are closed, but Dr. McCormick thinks that its safe for the city schools to go to school anyway.
40. Your school has ever been on lockdown because the PA Posse was coming.
41. Your school was called with a bomb threat and even though you have been evacuated, you know that if a bomb really did blow, you'd STILL die, because you are only on the FOOTBALL FIELD, and this happens at least 3 times a year!(Brookville students know ALL about that).
42. At least half the cars you see on the road are sporting an APC(American Product Company) Sticker on the back window.
43. You can hear the fireworks from City Stadium across the town..and they happen every week.
44. The highlight of the city life was the building of Target, Best Buy, and Barnes and Noble.
45. You get pure enjoyment out of throwing carts into the cartreturns at places like Kroger on Friday nights.
46. You notice that sometimes, you have a heavy southern accent, and other times, you have NO accent. Weird isn't it?
47. You spend your Friday nights at Sheetz on 460 or 221 (nothing else to do).
48. So many restaurants but nothing else to do.
49. Two clubs, one burnt down (Millenium) the other doubles as a line dancing place (Cattle Anne's).
50. Cattle Annies' term "Family night" really means drunk middle schooler night.
51. You have your picture in the counter at Friendly's.
52. You know that the same company owns both hospitals in town and yet you don't find that strange.
53. You hear they are building an Olive Garden and think you are moving up in the world.
54. There is a nail salon in every shopping center(with the stupid Dollar Stores!!).
55. Your zipcode is more than a number, it's a way of life!
56. You think you're cool because your zipcode is 24503.
57. You like to hang out with 03 kids when they party at places like a cul-de-sac- and Stop-In.
58. You don't think Oakwood Country Club is racist, I mean they're nice to YOU.
59. You've ever seen a drug deal go down at Stop-In on Boonesboro Rd. with a cop in the parking lot.
60. Your idea of a good pre-party to a formal is hanging out in a cul-de-sac drinkin Natty Light and laughing at the dead deer in the woods.
61. When you see a person driving a car from another city or state, you wonder what they are doing here. This place SUCKS, and even the college kids know it!(Why THEY come here no one knows!)
62. You want to know how all of the foreigners found out about Lynchburg and why they came here, because there is no way in hell that their country was THIS bad.
63. You remember the days when the Brookville kids hung out in the parking lot at Subway on Waterlick Rd! Hell, I was one of them once!
64.The longest line you will EVER see in Lynchburg is the line at Scare Mare on HALLOWEEN NIGHT!(Ironic since Falwell is the one who runs it!)
65. It snows EVERY Thursday, and it all starts on December 3rd.
66. Nobody uses turn signals when turning or changing lanes, they just kinda move over in front of you HOPING that they won't hit you!
67. You know what the term "LBC" REALLY stands for, yet you still use it to refer to your hometown.
68. You know all of the ladies in the T-Room by name. (Some of us don't like that place much!!)
69. You know what is meant by the phrase "I need a cheesy and a bowl."
70. You're either a cook, a waitress or a bartender, or if your lucky, you get to work in one of those really big buildings downtown.(Some of us work at Banks and everyone else works at KROGER!)
71. You know what street the J.Crew outlet store is on.(I know what street the J. Crew CALL CENTER is on!)
72. You walk or jog up and down rivermont.
73. You're picture has been in the toilet bowel frame in the Cav, that says "Customer of the Month."
74. You were excited when we decided to build one Sonic, we somehow got another right away!(UGH! That place is horrible)
75. The mall is a more exciting place to hang out or buy food, rather than shop.(No stores worth going to)
76. You know Trotters changed to Shadwells, but you can't seem to CALL it Shadwells, it will ALWAYS be Trotters.
77. You have EVER worked at the J. Crew call center on 1 Ivy Crescent, Lynchburg, VA 24501!!!
78. Everytime you go out to eat somewhere, you are SURE to see Jerry Falwell out eating also.
79. You've ever been hit on by the Mexican waiters at La Carreta.
80. You go to Scare Mare every halloween and they always try to make you go in the tent to hear about God and how you are probably going to HELL!(I ignore them and walk out!)
81. If your ABC station is the only one in the nation to REFUSE to air Jimmy Kimmel Live. (It's Jerry's fault!)
82. You find it "exciting" to go to Roanoke or Charlottesville for the night for the sake of having something to do!
83. You have noticed that in the past 2 years, there has been a MASSIVE increase in Cash Advance places, and they are starting to catch up to the Churches and Banks in town!
84. You ACTUALY know what a Cheesy Western is.
85. When asked where you are from, "The 'Burg" will do.
86. You hear certain college students yell out "YEAH BURG" at sporting events!
87. Flying to Atlanta is the longest 2 hours of your life (that's right, just 450 miles, but it still takes more than 2 hours for those damn prop plains to make it!).
88. Your city does not have an interstate, though all the smaller towns around it do.
89. You think moving into 03 from 02 is a big deal, and have a hard time getting accepted into 03 because you're FROM 02.
90. Flying on a large jet is exciting.
91. Any major concert or event takes place by the river.
92. The most exciting thing to do on a friday is go to Bull Buckin' in Boonsboro (I never did, but oh well!).
93. The highlight of your week is "Terrific Tuesdays" at the "dollar movies" where a movie only cost FIFTY CENTS!(noting that your bag of popcorn is just about equal to 8 tuesday movies).
94. Your parents tell you to stay away from downtown because it's "dangerous".(Yeah, all those old people might cane you to death!)
95. You realize how lame the Fair By The James is but yet you still keep going.
96. You notice how they call it the Fair By The James even though it's no longer by the James River.
97. You spend at least 2 hours with a group of friends sitting in the parking lot of Wal-Mart saying, "So what do you guys wanna do," over and over again until finally you all give up and just go home.
98. You find yourself running up the large set of stairs down town and when you get to the top yelling "Adrian".
99. You look forward to the new issue of "The Burg" even though you know it's not worth reading.
100. You notice that there are more white people that try to act black then there are black people that try and act black.
101. You find yourself trying to find The Church Of Spock. If you don't know what the Church of Spock is then you need to GO HERE and see what I'm talking about.
102. If ur school was ever let out 3 weeks early -- for mold problems ---- Jf.
103. If you have at least 1 friend who is a voulnteer firefighter or EMT.
104. If you brag about how good Mitchell's fried chicken is to a visiting relative.
105. If you've ever ridden a four-wheeler around the 13 mile loop connecting coffee and indered.
106. If you ever turned your truck mud-red from 4-wheeling on creek road.
107. If you have grown up with and gone to the same school with the same people since pre-school.
108. If everyone on the road starts driving 20 mph because of snow flurries
109. You're area is considered densely populated, but there are no pizza chains that deliver to your house.
110. If you are somehow related (by blood, or marriage) to over half of the inhabitants of the city.
111. When becoming "high tech" means that you are gaining 2 new lazer wash carwashes in town.
112. When you are so bored that S turns become a game (how fast did you go on Coffee Rd?) and the express way is the best place to drag race.
113. The fun thing to do while driving alongside friends is to 'race' to your location.
114. When there are 2 kinds of grafitti-- the "thug" kind (spray paint), and the "redneck" kind (skid marks). (hey man, come look at the marks I left on the Burg yesterday!)
115. When there are more animal doctors than there are people doctors.
116. When there are more "deer crossing" signs than any other kind of sign, and at least one near your house has a cowboy painted on the back of the deer. (note the one on 501 expressway.)
117. When half of your senior class is missing because it's the first day of deer season.
118. As a kid you went to at least 2 birthday parties at Skateland each year.
119. If you're from 03 you own a north face or mountain hardware jacket, a pair of birkinstocks and an L.L. Bean backpack.
120. You know to get in your car and drive away when someone comes up to you in a parking lot on Friday night and asks if you go to Liberty University (LU).(You also want to avoid the LU students that come up to you in the MALL! They do it A LOT!)
121. You know what "Hog Town" and "Over the River" means and avoid it.
122. You aren't confused by the intersection where Old Forest Road meets Old Forest Road and where Grace Street meets Grace Street.
123. You are driving 29 South and suddenly, though you haven't turned off, you are driving 501 North.
124. Reading the bathroom stall doors in the Food Court actually becomes entertaining, especially after they keep repainting them.
125. You know what it means to be a "townie".
126. You know someone who was kicked out of WalMart for playing tackle football inside.
127. Every car you saw had a coffee can on the muffler, primer spots, stickers, and "NOS" (not nitrous, oh no, no one knows what that is...strictly "NOS") after the movie Fast and the Furious came out.
128. Whenever you overhear people talking about their "fast" cars, it's always "Just wait 6 months...I've got somethin for you then! Just wait!"
129. You know the homeless people on Wards Road by name.
130. You notice the same "homeless" man infront of the mall or Target everyday with the same sign but different clothes.
131. One of your biggest thrills was the time you picked up one of the construction barrells out of your window on 221 while your friend was driving and moved 3 yards down the road.
132. If you know what it means when someone says they want it "hot, all the way"!! (This refers to orders at Yellow Sub when someone wants a hot sub with all the toppings.)
133. You get really angry at the dollar theater for changing the price on discount tuesday from 50 to 75 cents and refuse to go anymore on that day in protest of the increase in prices.
134. You refer to Tom Jones Drug Store as TJs, go there way too often, and love to watch newcomers try to get in and out of their crazy doors.(I'm not sure there are anymore of these around though. Oh well....CVS and Wallgreens has TAKEN OVER!! OMG!).
135. You notice that anywhere they put a NEW CVS Pharmacy, they just HAD to place a Wallgreens directly across the street!
136. You can tell which college the driver of a car goes to by looking in the back window. (Oh so true! CVCC, LC, LU....very different parking stickers.)
137. You've ever gone up to the top of Bald Mountain after a nice rain.
138. You think Poplar Forest Golf Course road is the worst in the world.
140. You have ever seen/drive route 666 in Forest.
141. You have ever seen the wall around Jerry Falwell's house and compared it to the Great Wall of China.
142. You remember when Graves Mill shopping center was a forest.
143. You thought when the Burger King was first put up, that indoor play area was the place to be.
145. If you know about seven different ways to get to where you want to go, its only a matter of what you want to drive past. (I found a new way to get back to 460 tonight! fun fun.)