Raulandpinboy
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YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM FLORIDA WHEN...
* Your idea of a traffic jam is 10 cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway near Okeechobee.
* "Vacation" means going to the family reunion.
* You've seen all the big bands 10 years after they were popular.
* You measure distance in minutes.
* You know several people who have hit a deer or a alligator.
* Your school classes were canceled because of cold.
* Your school classes were never canceled because of heat.
* You've even had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
* Stores don't have shopping carts; they have "buggies."
* You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it no matter what time of the year.
* You use "fix" as a verb. Example: I am fixing dinner.
* All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, or animal (including pesky insects!).
* You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked. (And your car as well!)
* You only own four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup, and Tabasco.
* You think everyone from a bigger city has a "Northern accent."
* The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for sports.
* You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
* You find 90 degrees "a little warm."
* You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, Still summer, and Christmas.
* There is a Dairy Queen in every town with a population of 1,000 or more.
* Going to Wal Mart is a favorite pastime known as "goin' Wal-Martin'" or off to "Wally World."
* You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as "goooood chili weather."
* A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola, or pop ...it's a Coke, regardless of brand or flavor.
* You recognize that cheese grits and catfish nuggets is a meal that must have been bestowed upon the people by the Lord Himself.
* You can be satisfied with a meal consisting only of a hunk of bread, with flavored flour and water (a delicacy known as "biscuits n'gravy").
* You understand these jokes and forward them to your friends from Florida and to a few "feriners," who love you anyway.
Could you be a Floridian at heart???
* Your idea of a traffic jam is 10 cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway near Okeechobee.
* "Vacation" means going to the family reunion.
* You've seen all the big bands 10 years after they were popular.
* You measure distance in minutes.
* You know several people who have hit a deer or a alligator.
* Your school classes were canceled because of cold.
* Your school classes were never canceled because of heat.
* You've even had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
* Stores don't have shopping carts; they have "buggies."
* You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it no matter what time of the year.
* You use "fix" as a verb. Example: I am fixing dinner.
* All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, or animal (including pesky insects!).
* You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked. (And your car as well!)
* You only own four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup, and Tabasco.
* You think everyone from a bigger city has a "Northern accent."
* The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for sports.
* You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
* You find 90 degrees "a little warm."
* You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, Still summer, and Christmas.
* There is a Dairy Queen in every town with a population of 1,000 or more.
* Going to Wal Mart is a favorite pastime known as "goin' Wal-Martin'" or off to "Wally World."
* You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as "goooood chili weather."
* A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola, or pop ...it's a Coke, regardless of brand or flavor.
* You recognize that cheese grits and catfish nuggets is a meal that must have been bestowed upon the people by the Lord Himself.
* You can be satisfied with a meal consisting only of a hunk of bread, with flavored flour and water (a delicacy known as "biscuits n'gravy").
* You understand these jokes and forward them to your friends from Florida and to a few "feriners," who love you anyway.
Could you be a Floridian at heart???
They still make me laugh everytime I read them though!
