You Know You're From Florida When
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| Just for fun! Everyone have whatsoever additions to this list? You know y'all're from Florida when..... "Down South" means Key West. "Panhandling" means going to Pensacola. Flip-flops are everyday wear. Shoes are for business concern meetings and church. Socks are just for bowling. Orange juice from concentrate makes you vomit. Tap h2o makes you vomit. Sugariness tea can be served at any meal . An alligator once walked through your neighborhood. You smirk when a game show's "K Prize" is a trip to Florida. You measure distance in minutes. You accept a drawer full of bathing suits, and i sweatshirt. You go annoyed at the tourists who feed seagulls. You never apply an umbrella because y'all know the rain will be over in five All the local festivals are named afterward a fruit. A mountain is whatever colina 100 feet above ocean level. A skilful parking place has nada to do with distance from the store,but Your wintertime coat is made of denim You tin tell the deviation between burn ant bites and mosquito bites. You're younger than thirty but some of your friends are over 65. You know the four seasons actually are: almost summertime, summer, not summer It's not "pop." It's "soda" or "coke." Anything under 70 is chilly. You've attended a hurricane party. You go to a theme park for an afternoon, and know when to get on the all-time You understand the futility of exterminating cockroaches. You can pronounce Okeechobee, Kissimmee, Withlacoochee , Okahumpka and Yous empathise why it's better to have a friend with a boat than take a Y'all've driven through Yeehaw Junction. Bumper stickers on the pickup in forepart of y'all include various fish, the You were 8 before yous realized they fabricated houses without pools. Yous were 12 when you first met someone who couldn't swim. You've worn shorts and used the A/C on Christmas. You know what the "stingray shuffle" is and why information technology'due south important! You could swim before you could read. You lot know that no other grocery shop can compare to Publix. Every other house had blue roofs in 2004-2005. You've gotten out of school early Halloween to pull a fast one on or treat before Yous know that anything under a Category 3 just isn't worth waking up for. You dread the lovebug seasons. You lot are on a outset name basis with the Hurricane list. You know why flamingos are pinkish. You think a 6-foot alligator is really pretty boilerplate. You were twelve before y'all ever saw snow or y'all still oasis't. When the northerners mutter that 80 is 'and so hot', you just stand there You refer to the seasons as "Tourist Season", "Fire Season" "Hurricane .... |
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| You know you're in Florida When: You have to follow street lines to make a turn with traffic. The person in front of you is doing 20 in a 50 zone and all you can see is silver hair sticking up to a higher place the steering wheel and a dogs nose hanging out the window. The car'due south temp judge reads 115 Degrees in the shade, then you make it and sit on the leather seats..... WOW! Your neighbor comes over for a cup of sugar and stays a week. You just go done cutting the grass in your backyard and the front has to be cut once more. Love bugs are stuck to the hood of your car and it takes a sandblast to get them off. Have a dandy day in FL |
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| When you lot don't have a TAN because we work! |
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| You know yous're in FLORIDA: When you hit a deer and 5 people terminate to ask if they tin can take it ???? When your next door neighbors are busted for having a abound business firm.... When you become to B.J.'s and have to cheque the shopping cart for dirty diapers. When roundabouts merely confuse already dislocated drivers..... When stop signs don't employ to them.... When the atmospheric condition is nifty 9 months out of the twelvemonth, at least..... |
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| They have more Walgreens than Starbucks. A prerequisite to enter a Wal-Mart is to acquire spanish. Y'all haven't had a raise in 5 years. Y'all have to tell a tourist v times how to become to Disney, instead on purpose y'all send him to Pine Hills! Police helicopters are nigh a nightly occurence, right around 10:00 news time. |
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| Some more than: Yous don't go in the ocean unless and until information technology's 80 degrees or warmer. Y'all can find cashmere scarves sitting on the shelves of national vesture stores for $half-dozen.95 in January. You've gone to Disney World and come dorsum home in one mean solar day. You've ever written a "bulletin" to a Hurricane on plywood roofing your windows: "Charlie stay away!" |
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| LOL, these are all great!! |
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| You know your from Florida when |
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| You lot are the just person nether seventy at the doctor'south office (this really happened to me the other day!) |
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| Quote: Originally Posted by Denise in Fla When you don't take a TAN considering we piece of work! My parents piece of work full-time and they still have a tan. They told me that have no clue how they got a tan. Just walking to and from the automobile caused it lol |
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