You Know You're From Indiana If...
You know several people who have hit a deer.
You've seen all the biggest bands ten years after they were popular.
You have no problem spelling or pronouncing "Terre Haute."
Your school classes were canceled because of cold.
Your school classes were canceled because of heat.
You know what the phrase "Knee-high by the Fourth of July" means.
You've seen a running car, with nobody in it, in the parking lot of the grocery store no matter what time of year it is.
You end your sentences with an unnecessary preposition. Example: "Where's my coat at? or "If you go to the mall I wanna go with."
Detassling was your! first job. Bailing hay, your second. Or you could stack hay, swim in the pond to clean off, and then have the strength to play a couple of games of hoops all in the same day.
You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day OR "Stoke the fire" and "fling open the windows" for the older version.
You say things like "catty-wumpus" and "kitty-corner".
You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
You carry jumper cables in your car regularly.
You drink "pop".
You know that Bailin' wire was the predecessor to duct tape
You think nothing of it in spring and fall to be stuck behind a farm implement driving on the roads.
Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
The local paper covers national and international headlines on 1 page, but requires 6 for local sports.
"Getting caught by a train" is a legitimate excuse for being late to school.
You know several different definitions as to what a Hoosier really is.
People at your high school chewed tobacco.
Everyone knows who the town cop is, where he lives, whether he is at home or on duty.
To get to school you had to drive on a gravel road, a road with several right-angle turns in it, or if you were really lucky, over a covered bridge.
People in your neighborhood, really, REALLY like Nascar.
You've been to the Covered Bridge Festival.
You took backroads to get there - why sit in traffic?
To you, a tenderloin is not an expensive cut of beef, but a big, salty, breaded piece of pork served on a bun with pickles.
In the fall, one of your favorite pranks was corning cars.
You know what corning is.
Wal-mart is the most exciting place in your hometown.
Technically, you don't even live in a town.
You know what FFA and 4H stand for and how to spell them.
A typical party at your high school consisted of a bunch of people driving trucks into the woods or an empty field, lighting a bonfire, and staring at it while drinking a few beers.
You have all the same teachers in high school that your parents had.
You know what chip-and-seal is, and your high school was located on just such a road.
You think that Notre Dame is a college in South Bend, and not a cathedral in France.
You know people who own belt buckles with their initials on them. These buckles are the size of a dinner plate.
You go to the county fair every night of it's week-long duration.[/QUOTE]
I'm not from Indiana, but being from Michigan and Kentucky got a lot of these covered.
Though come to think of it, I haven't worn jeans in a long time - probably 3 years? Jeans are too casual for work, and when I'm not at work I'm usually in shorts, or if I'm going out I wear capris or black stretch pants. Jeans are for travel to colder climates. My girlfriends who do wear jeans wear cute sandals (usually with heels) or boot-cut shoes.
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