You know your from Northern VA when: 1. Speed limits are just suggestions 2. You take a major highway to school (95,66,28, etc) 3. You constantly complain about there being nothing to do, even though you are right next to DC 4. You have at least 2 friends who have no idea what their parents do because its "top secret" government work 5. 50% of your senior class plans on going either to Mason, JMU, Tech or UVA 6. When people ask where you're from, you tell them DC because its easier to explain 7. You've never told someone you're from Virginia without putting "northern" in front of it 8. When you and your friends get bored you all whip out your cell phones and start playing with them 9. Its not actually tailgating unless your bumper is touching the car in front of you. 10. A yellow light means at least 5 more cars can get through. 11. A red light means 2 more can. 12. It takes you 30 minutes to drive 10 miles 13. Your local news is national news 14. If you hear the word "sniper" one more time you're going to slap someone 15. You actually know what the black boxes at stoplights are for 16. Even if your high school is only a year old, its already overcrowded 17. You have over 500 students in your graduating class 18. Being crushed in a crowded hallway doesn't scare you anymore 19. You are friends with people from at least 2 other high schools 20. You know at least 2 people who drive a Mercedes, BMW, Lexus, etc. 21. The cars in the student parking lot are worth 3x those in the teacher parking lot. 22. You are amused by visiting friends/relatives who are actually excited to see Washington DC 23. You are amazed when you go out of town and the people at McDonalds speak English 24. You can cross 4 lanes of traffic in under 30 seconds 25. There are at least 3 malls within 20 minutes of your house 26. There are at least 6 Starbucks within 20 minutes of your house 27. You or someone in your family has a Smart Tag 28. Homework/Extra credit for a class has been to visit a museum in DC 29. When traveling, you have your choice of 3 airports 30. An inch of snow and you miss 3 days of school 31. A foot of snow and you miss a week 32. All the potholes just add a little excitement to your driving experience 33. Stop signs mean slow down a little, but only if you feel like it 34. A rich white kid driving a BMW while blasting rap music is a common occurance 35. You call things "ghetto" even though in most of the rest of the country it'd be high class 36. You or most of your friends have a 3 car garage 37. You don't actually keep your cars in it. 38. When you were driving on the beltway at 2:13am on a Tuesday there was still traffic--and accidents 39. Crown Victoria = undercover cop 40. A slow driver is someone who isn't going at least 10mph over the speed limit 41. You understand the meaning of "If you don't get it, you don't get it" 42. Subway is a fast food place. The transportation system is known as Metro, and only Metro 43. You've taken a wrong turn somewhere late at night and ended up in a bad part of DC(ex. Anacostia) 44. Most of Loudoun County is the "middle of nowhere" 45. They just tore down the old farm house across the street and put 12 new houses in its place 46. The word Hfstival actually means something to you 47. Someone has honked at you because you didn't peal out the second the light turned green. 48. You've honked at someone because they didn't peal out the second the light turned green. 49. Rush hour lasts all day 50. For the cost of your house, you could own a small town in Iowa 51. Helicopters and airplanes flying above your neighborhood is a normal occurance. 52. Its a rare moment when you can't hear a train, a plane, and/or at least 5 cars 53. If you stay on the same road long enough, it will eventually have 3 new names. 54. You have to dial the area code to call your neighbor 55. You live 5 minutes from at least 2 high schools, but you go to one thats 30 minutes away. 56. You know at least 3 alternate routes to avoid sitting at a stop light. 57. You can't pull up to a 7-11 without seeing at least one cop, and usually there's another cop sitting not too far away. 58. You refer to distances in minutes (or hours), not miles. 59. When you put on your turn signal to change lanes, the people next to you speed up. 60. Talking on metro in the morning is prohibited. 61. You know that DC sports teams stink and you've adopted an out of town team. 62. Someone who believes cutting through 4 lanes of traffic in under 30 seconds is called "the DC fade."
btw, i copied and pasted mine form facebook....every single thing listed is very true for me and for everyone i know in this area....just thought it'd be funny to look at everyone elses areas since we all live in completly different areas
* Nobody is sure exactly where "north" is ... * The state dog is the pit bull ... * On the street where you live every refrigerator has a bottle of shoyu inside ... * Your cousin is Japanese-Chinese-French-Filipino-Korean-Scottish-Portuguese-Hawaiian, plus some stuff too manini to mention... * To go out on Saturday night and impress the girl, you wear your bestest shorts ... * Gobos is now just a bunch of green vegetables, not a rallying cry for the home team ... * Somewhere over the rainbow a big H flies ... * The most important thing to know about a person is where they went to high school ... * The second most important thing to know about a person is the year they wen' grad ... * Your second home is the beach ... * Birds walk more often than they fly ... * Gambling isn't legal, but you'd never know it during football season ... * You can't see the forest for the political sign-wavers ... It's raining buckets on your picnic and everybody agrees, "It's a blessing" ... * You're nobody 'til somebody says you're part of the ohana ... * Telling an ethnic joke is politically correct ... * Blowing off the tips of fingers, causing air pollution worse than Los Angeles and torturing household pets is considered a "cultural tradition" ... * Saying "Eh!" constitutes major oratory filled with profound implications ... * The Legislature is a daycare center for troubled adults ... * A pedestrian in a crosswalk, sheesh, some nerve that guy! ... * You watch your favorite shows "on top the TV"... * If you're a radio button-puncher, it sounds like the morning sky ought to be blotted out with so many traffic reporters flying around up there -- but they're both on the same plane ... * Stopping to smell the flowers can take all day ... * Nobody knows where the "fast lane" is on the freeway ... * The best cooks all use lots of mayonnaise ... * An approaching hurricane means only one thing -- surf's up, brah! ... * The name Duke means royalty ... * If you can make it here, why the heck would you want to be in Noo Yawk? ... * "You like beef" has nothing to do with what's for dinner... * Ethnic natives are treated like second-class citizens ... * The same guys always get the best tee times at a municipal golf course ... * Shopping is an art form ... * Las Vegas is Mecca ... * White rice is a sacrament... * Spam is for special occasions... * Beans are the perfect condiment for ice cream ... * The ukulele is a classical music instrument ... * A silver-haired ex-mayor is like your eccentric uncle --he keeps repeating himself and nobody pays any attention ... * Female volleyball players are major celebrities ... * The weather report says "mauka showers" ... * A lava rock gives you chickenskin ... * A stranger shares aloha ...
Boston Ma hometown of the redsox patriots(technically not hometown but u know what i mean lol) celtics bruins boston college eagles
The person driving in front of you is going 70 mph and you are cursing him for going too slow.
When ordering a tonic, you mean a Coke...not quinine water.
You actually enjoy driving around rotaries.
You almost feel disappointed when someone doesn't flip you the bird when you cut them off or steal their parking space.
You know how to pronounce the names of towns like Worcester, Woburn, Billerica, Haverhill, Barre and Cotuit.
You have driven to New Hampshire on a Sunday in order to get beer.
You know that there are two Bulger brothers, and that they're both crooks.
You know what they sell at a packie.
You know at least one bar where you can get something to drink after last call.
You can actually find your way around Boston.
You get jimmies on your ice cream.
Evacuation Day is a recognized holiday.
You know what First Night is.
You know at least one guy named Sean, Pat, Whitey, Red, Bud or Seamus.
You think the rest of the country owes you for Thanksgiving and Independence Day.
You have never been to Cheers.
When the words 'WICKED' and 'GOOD' go together.
You knew that there was no chance in hell that the Pats would move to Hartford.
The curse of the Bambino is taught in public schools.
You own a "Yankees Suck" shirt or hat.
You think Doug Flutie is the greatest athlete ever.
You remember exactly where you were when the ball rolled through Buckner's legs.
You prayed for the Red Sox to win the World Series not this season, but in your lifetime...our prayes were answered! and theyll win again this season!
You know how to make a frappe.
You know what a hoodsie is.
You know that "Big Dig" is also a kind of ice cream you can get at Brigham's.
You actually know how to merge from 6 lanes of traffic down to one.
You never go to "Cape Cod", you go "down the Cape".
You think that Roger Clemens, Wade Boggs and Derek Jeter are more evil than Whitey Bulger.
You went to Old Sturbridge Village, Plymouth Plantation, or both, on field trip in grammar school.
You can drive to the mountains and the ocean all in one day.
You know that the Mass Pike is some sort of strange weather dividing line.
You know that P-Town isn't the name of a new rap group.
You do not recognize the letter "R" as a part of the English language.
You've called something "wicked pissa"
You see people like Steven Tyler (Aerosmith), Dicky Barret (The Mighty, Mighty Bosstones), and Evan Dando (The Lemonheads) in the local supermarket and it doesn't phase you.
You've slammed on your brakes to deter a tailgater
Know at least three Tony's, one Vinnie and a Frank(ie)
Paranoia sets in if you can't see a Dunkies, ATM or CVS within eyeshot at all times.
You keep an ice scraper and can of de-icer on the floor of your car...year round
You order iced coffee in January
You know what candlepin bowling is
You drive 45 minutes to New Hampshire to save $5 in sales tax
You've pulled out of a side street and used your car to block oncoming traffic so you can make a left.
You've bragged about the money you've saved at The Christmas Tree Shop
You know what a "regular" coffee is
You get mad when people order Regular coffee with cream and sugar
You get mad when people order regular coffee, and then b!tch about the fact that there's cream and sugar in it
You know there is a much bigger difference between Roxbury and West Roxbury than just direction.
You think of Philadelphia as the Midwest.
You think there are only 25 letters in the alphabet (no R's).
You think three straight days of 80+ temperatures is a heatwave.
All your pets are named after Celtics or Bruins.
You refer to 6 inches of snow as a "dusting."
The weather changes from 70 and sunny to 20 and snowy in under an hour, and you hardly notice.
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.
Everything in town is "a five minute walk."
When out of town, you think the natives of the area are all whacked.
You know what a rotary is.
You've driven around a rotary seventeen times for pure sport.
You still can't bear to watch highlights from game 6 of the 1986 World Series.
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 a#al, 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.
WHEN WE SAY ________ WE MEAN... Bizah - odd Flahwiz - roses, etc. Hahwahya? - how are you? Khakis - what we staht the cah with Pissah - superb Retahded - silly Shewah - of course Wikkid - extremely Yiz - you, plural Popcahn - popular snack
HOW WE'LL KNOW YOU WEREN'T BON HEAH:
You wear a Harvard sweatshirt.
You ask directions to "Cheers."
You order a grinder and a soda.
You follow soccer.
You eat at Durgin Park.
You pronounce it "Worchester" or Glouchester."
DEFINITIONS: Frappes have ice cream; milk shakes don't.
If it's fizzy and flavored, it's tonic. Soda is club soda. Pop is dad. When we mean tonic WATER, we say tonic WATER.
The smallest beer is a pint.
Scrod is whatever they tell you it is, usually fish.
If you paid more than $6 a pound, you got scrod.
It's not a water fountain, it's a bubblah.
It's not a trash can, it's a barrel.
It's not a shopping cart, it's a carriage.
It's not a purse, it's a pockabook.
It's not a living room, it's a pahlah.
They're not franks, they're haht dahgs. Franks are money in France.
They're not groceries, they're bundles.
THINGS NOT TO DO: Don't call it Beantown.
Don't pahk your cah in Hahvid Yahd. They'll tow it to Meffa (Medford) or Slumaville (Somerville).
Don't swim in the Charles, no matter what Bill Weld tells you.
Don't sleep in the Common.
Don't wear orange in Southie on St. Patrick's Day.
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW: There are two State Houses, two City Halls, two courthouses and two Hancock buildings (one old, one new).
Route 128 is also I-95. It is also I-93.
It's the Sox, The Pats (or Patsies if they're losing), the Seltz, the Broons.
The underground train is not the subway. It's the T and it doesn't run all night (fah chrysakes, this ain't Noo Yawk).
GETTING AROUND: Pay no attention to the street names. There's no school on School Street, no court on Court Street, no dock on Dock Square, no water on Water Street. Back Bay streets are in alphabetical odda. Arlington, Berkeley, Clarendon, Dartmouth. So are South Boston streets: A, B, C, D. (no J)
If the streets are named after trees (Walnut, Chestnut, Cedar), you're on Beacon Hill. If they're named after poets you're in Wellesley.
All avenues are properly referenced by their nicknames: Comm Ave, Mass Ave., Dot Ave.
Dot is Dorchester, Rozzie Roslindale, JP is Jamaica Plain. Readville doesn't exist.
THE NORTH-EAST-SOUTH-WEST THING: Southie is South Boston. The South End is the South End. Eastie is East Boston. The North End is east of the West End.
The West End and Scollay Square are no more-a guy named Rappaport got rid of them one night.
The geographical center of Boston is in Roxbury. Due north of the center we find the South End. This is not to be confused with South Boston, which lies directly east from the South End. North of the South End is East Boston and southwest of East Boston is the North End. Backbay was filled in years ago.
BASIC RULES FOR DRIVING IN BOSTON (subject to change at any time): When on a one way street, stay to the right to allow oncoming traffic to pass.
Never, ever, stop for a pedestrian unless he flings himself under the wheels of your car.
The first parking space you see will be the last parking space you see. Grab it.
Double park in the North End of Boston, unless triple parking is available.
Learn to swerve abruptly. Boston is the home of slalom driving, thanks to the Registry of Motor Vehicles, which puts potholes in key locations to test drivers' reflexes and keep them on their toes.
Never get in the way of a car that needs extensive bodywork.
Always look both ways when running a red light.
Honk your horn the instant the light changes.
Breakdown lanes are not for breaking down, but for speeding, especially during rush hour. Breakdown lanes may also end without warning causing traffic jams as people merge back in.
Never use directional signals when changing lanes. They only warn other drivers to speed up and not let you in.
Making eye contact revokes your right of way.
Never pass on the left when you can pass on the right.
Whenever possible, stop in the middle of a crosswalk to ensure inconveniencing as many pedestrians as possible. And if a pedestrian ahead of you steps in the road, speed up loudly and chase him back up on the curb. Peds have no rights.
lol all very true about boston sorry its long i know
but yanks the sad thing is ive visited dc area since my uncle lives in clifton, and i am gonna tell you driving in boston is 100% worse that dc area lol
only thing in dc they have the biggest parkig garages ever and there all filled lol
If you can stand in the middle of town and be no more than 3 miles from a corn field on all sides.
If you can bring your Indian friend home from college and your friends back home comment about how "tan" he is.
If you blow up dead possums in your high school parking lot for fun.
If your high school parking lot is the main hang out and you have a "cruise route" to go with it.
If your definition of fishing is sitting on top of your jeep, which is stuck in 3 feet of mud, and drinking a case of busch light while you fish.
If you have partied in a field more times than you have partied at a house.
If more than 5 people you know have mullets.
If you can walk in walmart fully decked out in camo, with your shotgun in hand, to get more ammo and everyone waves instead of calling the cops.
If you can't get any farther than outside your front door without seeing someone you know.
If your mom knows you failed an anatomy test before you do because she is best friends with all the secretaries in the high school office.
If, on the first day of shotgun season, only 5 people show up for school.
If you think frog legs are a delicacy.
If you've ever been cow tipping, only to realize it doesn't work, and get chased by cows.
If you've ever bogged down your four wheeler in mud so deep it was up the handle bars.
If you've been on more road trips than you could ever remember, and in turn know all the back roads in the four surrounding counties (which pretty much means all the roads, because there is about one town per county).
If, on said road trip, you have been pulled over, hammered drunk, by a police officer who knows all four peoples parents and jsut smiles and sends you home.
If you've ever gotten your jeep stuck, sat on top and drank busch light while waiting for someone to come pull you out, only for them to get stuck too.
If you ramp things in vehicles for fun.
If you've ever gotten seriously injured, only to smile and say "taht was awesome".
If you've ever tried to blow up a lawn mower in a field, only to have the owner of that field chase you away with a knife tied to the end of the shaft of a golf club screaming "you better tell all your friends you met the meanest mother fu*cker alive!!"
THEN, you may live in Southern IL. Namely, Olney, IL, but i know no one has ever heard of it.
by the way, everything on that list has happened to me personally, and i could write a hundred more, but i know no one will take the time to read them.. lol.
