You Know You're From Indiana When...

I don't normally pass along joke things like this but I really liked this one because I could relate to almost every item listed, either from growing up in IN or living here now. For our out of state readers and family, I'm hoping this will shed a little light on why we are the way we are ....

• You think the state Bird is Larry.
• You can say "French Lick" without laughing out loud.
• There's actually a college near you named " Ball State ."
• You know Batesville is the casket-making capital of the worldand you're proud of it.
• Your feelings get hurt whenever someone points out the acronymfor Purdue University is PU.
• You know several people who have hit a deer.
  Down south to you means Kentucky .
• 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 phr ase "knee-high by the Fourth of July"means.
• You've heard of Euchre, you know how to play Euchre, and you are a master of Euchre.
• You've seen a running car, with nobody in it, in the parkinglot of the grocery store, no matter what time of year it is.
• 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 barn lot onthe same day.
• You say things like catty-wampus and kitty corner and know what they mean.
• You install security lights on your house and garage, thenleave them both unlocked.
• You carry jumper cables in your car regularly.
• You drink pop.
• You catch frogs at the crick.
• If you want someone to hear you, you holler at 'em.
• You know that baling wire was the predecessor to duct tape.
• You know that strangers are the only ones who come to your front door.
• Kids and dogs ride in the passenger seats of cars and thebacks of pickups.
• You think nothing of driving on the roads and being stuckbehind a farm implement in spring and fall. You just hope it's not a hog truck or a manure spreader.
• High school basketball games draw bigger crowds on the weekendthan movie theaters, IF you have a movie theater.
• Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
• The local paper covers national and international headlines onone page but requires six for local sports.
• You can repeat the scores of the last eight NBA games, but unless the MVP is a Hoosier, you are not sure who he is.
• You can see at least two basketball hoops from your yard.
  You can name every one of Bobby Knight's exploits over the last fewyears.
• The biggest question of your youth was IU or Purdue.
• Indianapolis is the BIG CITY.
• Getting stuck by a train is a legitimate excuse for beinglate to school or work.
• Everyone knows who the town cops are, where they live, andwhether they're at home or on duty.
• You've been to the Covered Bridge Festival. And you took backroads to get there. Why sit in traffic?
• To you, tenderloin is not an expensive cut of beef, but a big,salty, breaded, & fried piece of pork served on a bun with pickle and onion.