(no subject)
You Know You're from Howard County when: (stolen from zain's facebook)
-you remember there only being one theatre in town.
-your street name sounds like the name of a poem-"Forty Winks Way," "Barefoot Boy," "The Bowl" (note- many of the street names in Columbia do come from famous poets, along with famous painters and writers. But you knew that).
-your townhouse costs at least $500,000
-you only knew of one mall until you were about 14, when you went to other strange malls-to buy homecoming dresses.
-it's not unusual for you to go to one high school and your sibling to go to another.
-you hang out with people from your "village"
-you know what a "village" is.
-you've ever been to a party at centennial park.
-shadowland.
-the only things to do after 1 am are go to Wendy's or to your high school parking lot.
-you know what the people tree is.
-either you or someone you know was first employed at a snowball stand.
-you recognize the beginning of the holiday season by the lighted trees by the mall.
-your mall's idea of a Christmas tree is a gigantic, conical structure made of poinsettias.
-You've been to a dance at Circle D
-at least one of your friends has worked for the CA
-you got excited when Chick Fil A opened.
-you have a derogatory nickname for every other high school in the county-Assholeton, Centesticle, Mt. Heroin, and Long Bitch.
-those new all-black cop cars piss you right the fuck off because you can’t see them at all.
-the words Palace 9 mean something to you.
-you tell people from out of state that you're from Baltimore-just because it's easier.
-you remember route 100 as farm land.
-more than half of your school's population was in the NHS
-you miss the Enchanted Forest.
-you’re disgusted at the number of high-schoolers who loiter outside of the LL Bean fountain.
-then you realize that it’s because there’s nothing else to do here.
-the biggest event of the decade was when the mall was redone.
-there are no privately owned restaurants at all, only chains-
-except Clyde's.
-which is actually part of a chain too.
-fast food restaurants have flowers on the table.
-you're jealous of people who own their own mailbox.
-you're proud of Edward Norton.
-you either get the Sun or the Post, but everyone gets the Flier.
-being 12 meant taking the swim test so you could go to the pool alone.
-the condos in the Columbia “ghetto” sell for six figures.
-your graduation ceremony was at Merriweather.
-you eat at a “Pizza Hut Italian Bistro”
-you have an opinion on the capital gains tax.
-you school has raffled off a Camaro.
-Kittamaqundi is not a strange name for a lake.
-M.D.’s is the only place willing to deliver a pizza to your house.
-you know that it's called "DC," not "Washington."
-you live thirty minutes from EVERYWHERE.
-you think an hour long commute is somehow normal
-you know how to use a traffic circle PROPERLY
-you've had snow days where there was no snow on the ground.
-you remember there only being one theatre in town.
-your street name sounds like the name of a poem-"Forty Winks Way," "Barefoot Boy," "The Bowl" (note- many of the street names in Columbia do come from famous poets, along with famous painters and writers. But you knew that).
-your townhouse costs at least $500,000
-you only knew of one mall until you were about 14, when you went to other strange malls-to buy homecoming dresses.
-it's not unusual for you to go to one high school and your sibling to go to another.
-you hang out with people from your "village"
-you know what a "village" is.
-you've ever been to a party at centennial park.
-shadowland.
-the only things to do after 1 am are go to Wendy's or to your high school parking lot.
-you know what the people tree is.
-either you or someone you know was first employed at a snowball stand.
-you recognize the beginning of the holiday season by the lighted trees by the mall.
-your mall's idea of a Christmas tree is a gigantic, conical structure made of poinsettias.
-You've been to a dance at Circle D
-at least one of your friends has worked for the CA
-you got excited when Chick Fil A opened.
-you have a derogatory nickname for every other high school in the county-Assholeton, Centesticle, Mt. Heroin, and Long Bitch.
-those new all-black cop cars piss you right the fuck off because you can’t see them at all.
-the words Palace 9 mean something to you.
-you tell people from out of state that you're from Baltimore-just because it's easier.
-you remember route 100 as farm land.
-more than half of your school's population was in the NHS
-you miss the Enchanted Forest.
-you’re disgusted at the number of high-schoolers who loiter outside of the LL Bean fountain.
-then you realize that it’s because there’s nothing else to do here.
-the biggest event of the decade was when the mall was redone.
-there are no privately owned restaurants at all, only chains-
-except Clyde's.
-which is actually part of a chain too.
-fast food restaurants have flowers on the table.
-you're jealous of people who own their own mailbox.
-you're proud of Edward Norton.
-you either get the Sun or the Post, but everyone gets the Flier.
-being 12 meant taking the swim test so you could go to the pool alone.
-the condos in the Columbia “ghetto” sell for six figures.
-your graduation ceremony was at Merriweather.
-you eat at a “Pizza Hut Italian Bistro”
-you have an opinion on the capital gains tax.
-you school has raffled off a Camaro.
-Kittamaqundi is not a strange name for a lake.
-M.D.’s is the only place willing to deliver a pizza to your house.
-you know that it's called "DC," not "Washington."
-you live thirty minutes from EVERYWHERE.
-you think an hour long commute is somehow normal
-you know how to use a traffic circle PROPERLY
-you've had snow days where there was no snow on the ground.