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Stolen from skyla_doragono:
1. Go to Google and type, "You know you're from (your city or state) when...."
2. Cut and paste the list.
3. Bold the items that apply to you.
Brooklyn:
* You don't go to Manhattan; you go to "The City"
* You never realized you had an accent until you left
* You curse. A lot
* You know where to find alcohol at 3 AM
* You're 35 years old and don't have a driver's lisence (Not yet but I can see this happening.)
* You know at least one person with mob connections (Not that I know of anyway.)
* You are walking distance from at least one pizzeria, bagel store, laundromat, deli and drug store (Oh, God I lol'd so hard at this. XDDDD)
* You consider Westchester to be "Upstate" (I-It's not?)
* You have a collection of 27 take-out menus somewhere in your kitchen
* You consider your 8x10 patch of grass to be a lawn
* You know the difference between seeing, fooling around with and going out with someone
* The most frequently used part of your car is the horn (Prolly if I had a car.)
* You've never been to the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building (Ha! I've been to at least ONE of these!)
* You detest New Jersey and you get lost every time you go there (Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck Jersey.)
* You have friends come over to hang out on your stoop (My stoop is too small now 8C)
* You have more than two locks on your door
* If there's half an inch of snow on the ground, you're not driving anywhere
* Growing up, you thought of Nellie Bly's Fairyland as a major amusement park (I MISS THIS PLACE SO MUCH!)
* You don't notice sirens or car alarms
* You consider NYU, pratt or pace to be "going away to college"
* You nap on the subway without ever missing your stop and you know exactly where on the platform the doors will open (HA! XD)
* If you're entire family doesn't live in your house, they're all a few blocks away (No, thank God.)
* You've ever been to the REAL Nathan's in Coney Island
* A pigeon has ever crapped on your head or at least your car
* As a kid, you've ever ran into your house to get money because you heard the ice cream man coming
* You've never been to the shore; you've been to the BEACH
* You regularly go to Brennan & Carr to get beef broth
* You would only be caught dead in Staten Island to go to the mall because you know how crappy Kings Plaza is (Ugh, Kings plaza)
* You know which ethnic groups you can find in which neighborhoods
* You know the dirty names that go with all the Catholic girls' high schools
* Deep down, you know that Long Islanders aren't real New Yorkers (They're just a step above Jersey.)
* YOU'RE STILL MAD THAT THE DODGERS LEFT!
1. Go to Google and type, "You know you're from (your city or state) when...."
2. Cut and paste the list.
3. Bold the items that apply to you.
Brooklyn:
* You don't go to Manhattan; you go to "The City"
* You never realized you had an accent until you left
* You curse. A lot
* You know where to find alcohol at 3 AM
* You're 35 years old and don't have a driver's lisence (Not yet but I can see this happening.)
* You know at least one person with mob connections (Not that I know of anyway.)
* You are walking distance from at least one pizzeria, bagel store, laundromat, deli and drug store (Oh, God I lol'd so hard at this. XDDDD)
* You consider Westchester to be "Upstate" (I-It's not?)
* You have a collection of 27 take-out menus somewhere in your kitchen
* You consider your 8x10 patch of grass to be a lawn
* You know the difference between seeing, fooling around with and going out with someone
* The most frequently used part of your car is the horn (Prolly if I had a car.)
* You've never been to the Statue of Liberty or the Empire State Building (Ha! I've been to at least ONE of these!)
* You detest New Jersey and you get lost every time you go there (Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck Jersey.)
* You have friends come over to hang out on your stoop (My stoop is too small now 8C)
* You have more than two locks on your door
* If there's half an inch of snow on the ground, you're not driving anywhere
* Growing up, you thought of Nellie Bly's Fairyland as a major amusement park (I MISS THIS PLACE SO MUCH!)
* You don't notice sirens or car alarms
* You consider NYU, pratt or pace to be "going away to college"
* You nap on the subway without ever missing your stop and you know exactly where on the platform the doors will open (HA! XD)
* If you're entire family doesn't live in your house, they're all a few blocks away (No, thank God.)
* You've ever been to the REAL Nathan's in Coney Island
* A pigeon has ever crapped on your head or at least your car
* As a kid, you've ever ran into your house to get money because you heard the ice cream man coming
* You've never been to the shore; you've been to the BEACH
* You regularly go to Brennan & Carr to get beef broth
* You would only be caught dead in Staten Island to go to the mall because you know how crappy Kings Plaza is (Ugh, Kings plaza)
* You know which ethnic groups you can find in which neighborhoods
* You know the dirty names that go with all the Catholic girls' high schools
* Deep down, you know that Long Islanders aren't real New Yorkers (They're just a step above Jersey.)
* YOU'RE STILL MAD THAT THE DODGERS LEFT!