You Know Youre from Louisiana When... - Your sunglasses fog up when you step outside, even in December. - You reinforce you attic to store Mardi Gras beads. - You dont look twice when you see pink flamingos in yards of nice subdivisions during Mardi Gras. - You save newspapers, not for recycling but for tablecloths at crawfish boils. - Your ancestors are buried ABOVE the ground. - You drink Community Coffee, have tried Starbucks, but dont see what all the fuss is about. - You take a bite of Five-Alarm Chili and reach for the Tabasco. - Every once in a while, you have waterfront property. - You sit down to eat boiled crawfish and your host says, Dont eat the dead ones, and you know what they mean. - You dont learn until high school that Mardi Gras is not a National Holiday. - You push little old ladies out of the way to catch Mardi Gras beads. - Little old ladies PUSH YOU out of the way to catch Mardi Gras beads. - You believe that PURPLE, GREEN, and GOLD look good together. - Your last name isnt pronounced the way its spelled. - You know what a nutria is but you still pick it to represent your baseball team. - Your town is LOW on the education chart, high on the obesity chart, and you DONT care because youre NO. 1 on the PARTY CHART. - Your house payment is less than your utility bill. - You know that Tchoupitoulas is a STREET not a DISEASE. - Your grandparents are called Maw-Maw and Paw-Paw - Your Santa Claus rides an alligator and your favorite SAINT is a football player. - You cringe every time you hear an actor with a Southern or Cajun accent in a New Orleans-based movie or TV show. - You have to reset your clocks after every thunderstorm. - Youre walking in the French Quarter with a plastic cup of BEER. - When it starts to rain, you cover your BEER instead of your head. - Youve eaten at one or more of these restaurants, AND know how to pronounce them: Prejeans, Tu Jacs, Gallatoires, Ralph & Kacoos, or Mulattes. - You have crawfish mounds in your front yard. - You give directions and use words like uptown, downtown, backatown, riverside, lakeside, other side of the bayou or other side of the levee. - You refer to a geographical location way up North, you are referring to places like Shreveport, Little Rock or Memphis, where it gets real cold. - You dont worry when you see ships riding higher in the river than the top of your house. - You judge a Po-boy by the number of napkins used. - The four seasons in your year are: crawfish, shrimp, crab, and King Cake. - You wrench your hands in the sink with an onion bar to get the crawfish smell off. - You cringe when people pronounce the largest city in the state as Nawlins, because only TOURISTS call it that! - You know those big roaches can fly, but youre able to sleep at night anyway. - You assume everyone has mosquito swarms in their backyard. - You realize the rainforest is less humid than Louisiana. - You discover that you can get a sunburn through your car window. - When out of town, you stop and ask someone where there is a drive-through Daiquiri place, and they look at you like you have three heads. - You call tomato sauce red gravy. - You fall asleep to the soothing sounds of four box fans. - No matter where else you go in the world, you are always disappointed in the food. - You get on a bus marked Cemeteries and dont think twice. - Your first sentence was Throw me something mistah and your first drink was from a go-cup. - You have a parade ladder in your shed. - You shake out your shoes before putting them on. - You eat sno-balls instead of throwing them. - You meet someone for the first time they tell you their entire family tree, and somehow you are related to their family. - You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Louisiana.
Posted on: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 16:52:46 +0000
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