You Know you're from Indiana if...

[tutall]

DISCLAIMER: I didn't make up all of these. I don't know who did though...

1.You drive for three hours and the scenery outside doesn't change.
2.There's three feet of snow on the ground and school is still in session.
3.You only go to the mall once a year 'cause it takes too long to get there.
4.While driving all you see is corn.
5.People still have Christmas decorations up at Easter.
6.You start saying to yourself "More than corn in Indiana my butt."
7.Anyone with a cell phone looks out of place.
8.Walking through Wal-Mart with two carts full of kids is normal.
9.Anyone with a tan is rich.
10.The hip hang-out place is McDonald's.
11.There really is more than corn in Indiana. There’s soybeans, too.
12. You can't remember the last party that didn't have at least one game of eucher break out
13.A restaurant has an invisible wall in the non-smoking section and you believe it works.
14.Speeding consists of 2 miles over the speed limit.
15.You think you don't have to use a turn signal on your car because you don't use it on your tractor.
16.You build your dream house on a cornfield, and you considered it posh.
17.You warsh your clothes and you think George Warshington was the first president.
18.You're proud to be called a Hoosier, even if you don't know what one is.
19.You have no problem spelling or pronouncing "Terre Haute"
20.Detassling was your first job. Bailing hay, your second.
21.You can 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.
22.You say things like "catty-wumpus" and "kitty-corner".
23.You own a dirtbike or a ATV.
24.You live in a city ... and there's a cornfield in your backyard.
25.High school basketball game draws a bigger crowd on the weekend nights than movie theaters.
26.You can see at least 2 basketball hoops from your yard.
27.You can name every one of Bob Knight's "exploits" over the last few years.
28.You shop at Marsh.
29.Damon Bailey was your childhood hero.
30.The biggest question of your youth was "IU or Purdue?"
31.Indianapolis is the "big city".
32."Getting caught by a train" is a legitimate excuse for being late to school.
33.People at your high school chewed tobacco.
34.Everyone knows who the town cop is, where he lives, and whether he is at home or on duty.
35.You actually know what the CART vs IRL debate is about and have taken a side.
36.To you, a raccoon is simply a "coon".
37.The vehicle of choice in your area is not a car, but a pickup.
38.Someone you know is BIG John Mellencamp fan.
39.You've been to the Covered Bridge Festival.
40.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.
41.You call a green bell pepper a "mango".
42.Sometimes, you call the toilet the "commode" or the "stool".
43.In the fall, one of your favorite pranks was corning cars.
44.You know what FFA and 4H stand for.
45.You know what chip-and-seal is, and your high school was located on just such a road.
46.You go the county fair every night of it's week-long duration.
47.You can say "French Lick" without laughing out loud.
48.There's actually a college near you named "Ball State."
49.The last "g" is silent in any word ending in "ing."
50.You think the state Bird is Larry.
51. If your high school had a hard core marching band and was proud of it.
52. You milk the cow in the barn when playing Euchre and you know what that means.
53. when farting contests are just something to laugh at or just something to do.
54. when driving down a back road road kill is ALL OVER the road, and it doesn't phase you.
55. when You use the same utensil for as much as you can, and it doesn't matter if your food touches, it's all going to the same place.
56. when your neighbors are amish, and it's not big deal.
57. If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead.
58. Vacation means going north or south on I 65 for the weekend.
59. You often switch from heat to AC in the same day and back again.
60. You know several people who have hit a deer more than once
61. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching
62. You see people wearing camoflage at social events (including weddings)
63. You find 0 degrees "a little chilly."
64. You measure distance in minutes.
65. You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it no matter what time of year.
66. You drink "pop".
67. You know what "cow tipping" is.
68. Your school classes were canceled because of cold.
69. You see people wearing bib overalls to funerals.
70. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, or grain.
71. You know exactly where to go when the party is at "the lake or in the field."
72. You consider strangers people who use your front door.
73. You deny the Colts were ever in Baltimore.
74. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
75. Your favorite family meal consists of Buttered Bread, Corn, Mashed Potatoes & Beef and Noodles (This is a big midwest thing)

Some of these are very true.... do you have any for the state you live in?

[GriffeyJr.FAN3]

as a fellow hoosier (dont know what it means as said on the list hahaha) i have to agree with 90 some odd percent of whats on this list hahahahah i was crackin up reading it because its so true.

[garnett_21]

Not from Indiana, but alot of them apply to me...lol...some pretty funny stuff there!

[Ryche1983]

Great list I lived in Columbus for awhile, so I can appreciate alot of those

[mikpaq77]

Most of this list applies to Iowa as well!

[BCUS28]

12. You can't remember the last party that didn't have at least one game of eucher break out


Holy cow! A small group of my friends play a form of this game in NY and I never for the life of me ever thought anyone else knew about it. Then again they might not because I've never heard of anyone playing the variation of Euchre that we do.

Good stuff tho!