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You know you are from Virginia if...

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  • You know you are from Virginia if...

    Speed limits are just suggestions

    You have at least two friends who have no idea what their relatives do...because its "top secret" government work

    Most of your senior class wend to Mason, JMU, Tech, VCU or UVA

    When people ask where you're from, you tell them DC because its easier to explain

    You've never told someone you're from Virginia without putting "northern," "central," or "southern" in front of it

    It's not actually tailgating unless your bumper is touching the car in front of you.

    You know yellow light means at least 5 more cars can get through. A red light means 2 more can.

    You actually know what the black boxes at stoplights are for.

    You are amused by visiting relatives who are actually excited to see Washington, DC

    You took a field trip to Williamsburg as a kid

    You are amazed when you go out of town and the people at McDonalds speak English

    You or someone in your family has a Smart Tag

    An inch of snow and you miss 3 days of school

    All the potholes just add a little excitement to your driving experience

    Crown Victoria = undercover cop

    Subway is a fast food place. The transportation system is known as Metro, and only Metro.

    They just tore down the old farm house across the street and put 12 new McMansions in its place

    For the cost of your house, you could own a small town in Iowa

    If you stay on the same road long enough, it will eventually have three new names.

    You have to dial the area code to call your neighbor

    "Vacation" means spending a day at King's Dominion or Busch Gardens.

    "Going to the River" means any stream with water.

    You have never been served tea without the waitress asking "sweet or unsweetened?"

    Your favorite past time is telling West Virginia jokes.

    Anyone who can't trace his or her ancestry back to at least four generations in Virginia is an outsider.

    "Going to the beach" means going to Virginia Beach, Hatteras, or Nags Head.

  • #2
    and if you're from Maryland:

    If someone asks you if you're from Virginia, you shudder before answering.

    Everyone you graduted with went to Maryland, UVA or VA Tech

    Going to the Beach means Ocean City or Rehobeth/Dewey/Bethany

    You are embarrassed to admit you're from the South.

    Your entire neighborhood is from someplace else.

    You go to Virginia to buy booze, butts, and guns...

    Jenn

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    • #3
      You know you are from VA if you laugh when people from MD (or NoVa, for that matter) say they live in the south.

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      • #4
        You know you are from virginia when you cry at the thought of moving to Maryland.

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        • #5
          you what's funny- is that when I went to college I had no idea that New Jersey was two states (North Jersey and South Jersey. "what exit you at?")

          and people DO NOT understand that there are MD people and VA people and either can live in DC but only under dire circumstance would a MD person move to VA and vice versa. I managed one full year in Alexandria. It hurt but I had to do it...

          But at least we can agree that the best crabs are Blue Crabs from the Bay.

          Jenn

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          • #6
            Originally posted by jloreine
            But at least we can agree that the best crabs are Blue Crabs from the Bay.

            Jenn
            AGREED! :yum:

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            • #7
              Uh oh this is moving to debate mode, but why in the world would anyone dislike NOVA. You have to go to the liquor store to buy a simple bottle of wine and they don't even have full service DMVs in every county.

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              • #8
                Three words: Personal Property Tax.

                Jenn

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                • #9
                  why in the world would anyone dislike NOVA
                  How long you got? As a native Virginian, from the "Valley," NOVA sure doesn't feel like Virginia to me.

                  I'm confused about the liquor store comment. Are you saying that outside of NOVA you usually have to go to the ABC store for wine?

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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by uvagradk
                    why in the world would anyone dislike NOVA
                    How long you got? As a native Virginian, from the "Valley," NOVA sure doesn't feel like Virginia to me.

                    I'm confused about the liquor store comment. Are you saying that outside of NOVA you usually have to go to the ABC store for wine?
                    I'm from the rural areas of Virginia...so uh, yeah. How long you got? NOVA isn't even really Virginia to the rest of us. If you're from NOVA, you just get pissed that everyone else is calling you a community college.

                    I don't get the ABC store comment either. I know a million places to buy wine. :~

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                    • #11
                      I think that's a MD comment because Montgomery County owns all of their liquor stores. or not. I do know that you buy vino at the vino store and liquor at the liquor store. Why? Because MC took over after prohibition and they make so much money every year there's no way they'll ever give that cash cow up!

                      and I think we can all agree that the worst DMV is in DC. I lost several dog years trying to get stuff done there.

                      jenn

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                      • #12
                        I'll tell you what I do love in NOVA -- Old Town Alexandria. Perhaps one of you rich attendings can spot me about $2.5 mil and I could find some digs around there. Ahhhh, I'd like to be sitting on the balcony of the Fish Market right about now quaffing some of the house brew out of one of those gigantic "goblets" for lack of a better word.

                        :~

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