So the new one, via
Brad Wilson via
Confetti Falling. It goes like this:
google for the phrase “You know you’re from [Your State Name] and bold the ones that apply to you:
Well, I'm not *from* Florida, but I live here now, so...
You know you're from FLORIDA if....
1. You measure distance in minutes.
2. You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
3. Stores don't have bags, they have sacks.
4. You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it, no matter what time of the year.
5. You use "fix" as a verb. Example: I am fixing to go to the store.
6. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.
7. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
8. You carry jumper cables in your car ... for your OWN car.
9. You know what "cow tipping" is.
10. You only own four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup, and Tabasco.
11. The local paper covers national and international news on one page but requires 6 pages for local gossip and sports.
12. You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
13. You find 100 degrees F "a little warm."
14. You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas (which still feels like summer).
15. Going to Wal-Mart is a favorite past-time known as "goin wal-martin" or off to "Wally World."
16. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good gumbo weather.
17. A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola, or pop ... it's a Coke, regardless of brand or flavor. Example: "What kinda coke you want?"
18. You understand these jokes and forward them to your friends from Florida..
Now, I'm also from Boston, in a way, so let's do that one to fill out some page space:
- You think of Philadelphia as the Midwest.
- You think it's your God-given right to cut someone off in traffic.
- You think there are only 25 letters in the alphabet (no R's).
- You think three straight days of 90+ temperatures is a heatwave.Yeah...i'm hatin Florida...
- All your pets are named after Celtics or Bruins.and Sox
- You refer to 6 inches of snow as a "dusting."
- Just hearing the words "New York" puts you in an angry mood.
- You don't think you have an attitude.
- You always 'bang a left' as soon as the light turns green, and oncoming traffic always expects it.well...they expected it when I lived there...down here, I haven't curbed the habit yet
- Everything in town is "a five minute walk."
- When out of town, you think the natives of the area are all whacked.Everyone in Florida is whacked
- You still can't bear to watch highlights from game 6 of the 1986 World Series.
- You have no idea what the word compromise means.
- You believe using your turn signal is a sign of weakness.
- You don't realize that you walk and talk twice as fast as everyone else.
- You're anal, neurotic, pessimistic and stubborn.
- You think if someone is nice to you, they must want something or are from out of town.
- Your favorite adjective is "wicked."
- You think 63 degree ocean water is warm.
- You think the Kennedy's are misunderstood.