You Know You’re From Louisville…
October 1st, 2006
| Tags: Well Said
I got this list of how you know you’re from Louisville way back in December of 2004. Might as well publish it now, since most of it is true:
- Your international airport has only one passenger flight that actually leaves the 48 contiguous states
- The in-state sports rivalry is paid more attention to than the national championship
- You live in an area that occasionally gets considerable snowfalls, floods, and tornadoes… but have no capacity to deal with any of the above
- You pronounce the name of your city different than anyone else you’ve heard
- You think the rest of the people in Kentucky sound like hicks
- When you think “Kentucky” you don’t automatically think horse racing or fried chicken
- You ask your doctor for an allergy cure and he tells you to move
- You’ve shoveled 10+ inches of snow and worn shorts in the same week
- When people ask what school you went to, they don’t mean Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, or Harvard; they mean St. X, Trinity, Male, Sacred Heart or Assumption
- You know what the “Bambi Walk” is
- You’ll always call Fourth Street Live the Galleria
- Your last ten vacations were to Destin with at least five other families from Louisville who you already see on a weekly basis
- You make an emergency run to Kroger for bread and milk at the first sighting of a snowflake
- You’ve lived here for years, yet somehow you get hopelessly lost each time you attempt a shortcut through Cherokee Park
- You’re convinced turn signals are useless options on a vehicle
- You hold up traffic to let a motorist you don’t know into your lane
- You give directions based on landmarks that no longer exist or street names that have changed, but your directions never confuse any of the other Louisvillians;
- You have never been to the Derby, but wouldn’t miss the Oaks
- You call in sick to attend the Oaks and spot your boss&em;who also called in sick&em;at the next betting window;
- You introduced your friends to mint juleps in college only until you found yourself the only one not passed out at the party
- You think all the “REAL HICKS” live in New Albany
- You think the only thing southern Indiana is good for is buying pumpkins
- When introduced to another life long Louisvillian, you spend the first part of the conversation finding out how you are connected. it’s never as many as six degrees of separation-usually three will do
- You think a pervert is someone who would rather have sex than watch basketball;
- You’ve built a shrine to Rick Pitino in your basement
- You can read about Rick Pitino in at least three different sections of your newspaper
- You think the rest of the world knows what “Benedictine Spread” is
- You think the rest of the world knows what a “Hot Brown” is
- You have never eaten fish that wasn’t fried
- You think the whole world puts spaghetti in chili
- You want another bridge built over the Ohio River, just so long as it doesn’t cut through your neighborhood
- You’ve experienced a salt storm after a two inch snowfall
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