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[douxquemiel]

1. Go to Google (or Yahoo) and type, "You know you're from (your state) when..."
2. Cut and paste the list.
3. Bold the items that apply to you.

You know you’re from Massachusetts if:

• You call chocolate sprinkles "jimmies"
  
• A water fountain is called a bubbler. Say it "bubbla".
  
• You know how to pronounce towns like Worcester, Eastham, Chatham, Haverhill, Peabody, Scituate, and Leominster
  
• You know what they sell at a "packie"
  
• You keep an ice scraper in your car all year round
  
• You've pulled out of a side street and used your car to block oncoming traffic so you can make a left (....only sometimes. >.> )
  
• You use the words "wicked" "pissa" and "good" in the same sentence
  
• You know what a frappe is
  
• You never say "Cape Cod" you say "The Cape"
  
• You went to Old Sturbridge Village and Plymouth Plantation at least once, in elementary school, but never to Bunka Hill
  
• You know the Mass Pike and 495 create some sort of strange weather dividing line
  
• Khakis are something you start the car with (my co-worker actually has an accent this thick!)
  
• You think crosswalks are for wimps
  
• You think if someone's nice to you, they either want something or they are from out of town and probably lost
  
• You know how to cross 4 lanes of traffic in 5 seconds (....I just don’t do it often. >.> )
  
• You think it's not actually tailgating unless your bumper is touching the car in front of you
  
• You know that a yellow light means at least 5 more cars can get through ... and that a red light means 2 more can
  
• A Crown Victoria = Undercover Cop
  
• The transportation system is known as the "T"
  
• Subway is a fast food place
  
• If someone is acting like they’ve gone ‘round the bend, you crack jokes about sending them to McLean’s
  
• You could own a small town in Iowa for the cost of your house (how about my parents’ house?)
  
• There are 24 Dunkin Donuts shops within 15 minutes of your house
  
• When people talk about the "curse of the Bambino," you know exactly what they are talking about, and you believe in it, too (NOT ANYMORE!!)
  
• You think of Rhode Island as the "deep South"
  
• Anything past Worcester is "the middle of nowhere" (if you live in Boston)
  
• You believe using a turn signal gives away your plan to the enemy
  
• If you stay on the same road long enough, it will eventually have 3 or more different names (this happened in my tiny hometown, too)
  
• Someone has honked at you because you didn't peel out the second the light turned green
  
• You've honked at someone because they didn't peel out the second the light turned green
  
• All the potholes just add excitement to your driving experience
  
• Stop signs mean slow down a little, but only if you feel like it
  
• Six inches of snow is considered a "dusting"
  
• Three days of 90+ heat is definitely a "heat wave" ... and 63° weather is "on the warm side"
  
• $15 to park is a bargain
  
• You cringe every time you hear some actor/actress imitate the "Boston accent" on TV or in a movie.
  
• You've slammed on your brakes to deter a tailgater
  
• You know what "regular coffee" is, and you order iced coffee in January (Well, iced tea. And ice cream! Yum.)
  
• You have been to Fenway Park
  
• You refer to the New York Yankees as the Evil Empire
  
• You've gone from I-95 South to I-93 North by driving in a straight line and never changing direction. (It's how we get home from visiting Em!)
  
• You give directions that cite land marks that USED to be there.
  
• You can navigate a rotary without a problem (you know what the term “rotary” means, and who has the right-of-way)
  
• You have gone to at least one party at UMASS.
  
• Colleges are used as landmarks for directions (ie: “Go past MIT until you hit Harvard, Take a right and go past Lesley, Keep going until you hit Tufts” are actual directions!)
  
• You know at least one guy named Sean, Pat, Whitey, Red, Bud, Sully or Seamus
  
• You think the rest of the country owes you for having Thanksgiving and Independence Day (I was raised in Concord, where the ORIGINAL Patriots are from, so, uh. Yeah.)
  
• You know that P Town is not the name of a Rap group.
  
• You would not be caught dead eating Manhattan clam chowder.