48. Oil tanks are more common than trees in your
neighborhood.
47. You dont know anything about farming...at least not legal farming.
46. When you need to run out to the store you go to
Jewel.
45. You call the interestate the "Tollroad"
44. You know what good pizza tastes like, and its not Papa John's.
43. Running red lights is normal!
42. Midway's not an island, its an airport.
41. You know the night sky is not black, its orange!
40. You know roads are just a place for trains to park across.
39. Only a true region rat can tell which town they are in at any given time.
38. You love Kohl's (store).
37. You measure distance in minutes instead of miles.
36 You understand what "Lake-Effect" is.
35 You don't pronounce the 's' in Illinois and you get aggrivated when people do.
34 "Whats a sheriff?"
33 School isn't cancelled unless there is at least
20 feet of snow on the ground.
32 You know more about whats going on in Illinois than Indiana.
31 You don't drink soda, you drink pop.
30 You don't consider pigs as being a domestic pet.
29 Your favorite holiday movie is "A Christmas Story."
28 You can see downtown Chicago from your neighborhood, yet it takes an hour to get there!
27 You think bridges were invented to cross railroad tracks, not rivers.
26 You like White Castle.
25 Your bumper is rusted from road salt.
24 You know that country music sucks.
23 Sometimes you forget that Indiana HAS a football team (Colts?)
22 You don't "Cruise the strip."
21 You are skilled at lane changing and know that "All five lanes on I-80 were MEANT to be used!"
20 You can appreciate the humor of Mancow.
19 You know that beaches exist in places other than Florida and California.
18 You always keep at least $5 in change in your car for tolls.
17 You think all amusement parks are called "Great America"
16 You know that not all passenger trains are powered by steam.
15 You're neighborhood IS a proposed third airport.
14 You know better than to light a match within 5 miles of the Little Calumet River .
13 What the hell is Hardee's?
12 You're not really a "Hoosier"
11 Even though you go to school three hours away, you still cant help but watch WGN news on cable each night.
10 You have motion-sensor lights on your garage and house, but dont lock the doors on either of them!
9 You leave your car running in the parking lot at the store.
8 You end sentences with unnecessary prepositions ("Where is my coat at?" or "I want to go with!")
7 You forget we even have a county fair.
6 Who needs a county fair anyway when there is August Fest?
5 There is only one LAKE, everything else is a pond.
4 Everyone else at the gas station is from Illinois.
3 The "northern lights" are the flames from Amoco's refinery.
2 You think anything south of US-30 is "Southern
Indiana"
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Craig W. Demaree
"The answer is blowing in the wind"
--Bob Dylan
