You know you’re from (insert here) when . . .

I admit it, I am a Facebook junkie.  I love the feeling of keeping in touch with family and friends from afar.  I especially love chatting with grade school and high school friends as if our relationships never fell apart.

Today, I saw two groups that I loved . . . “You know you’re from West Chester when” and “You know you’re from Philadelphia when.”  These have inspired me to write my own lists, including a new one, “You know you’re from Ankara when.”

You know you’re from West Chester when:

• You did the Freak of the Bump to Karisma at the Warner Theater
• You attended on of Artie’s Head Banger parties
• You caught Vernon cutting the ends off of the green beans at the A&P because he wasn’t going to pay for the parts that he wasn’t going to eat
• You eat Habersett’s scrapple straight up on white bread
• You bought your hoagies at Rosie’s and your penny candy at Huber’s
• Your neighbors had names like Bummer and Bug Eyes
• You used mint candy to draw hopscotch on the streets because you couldn’t afford chalk
• You had your milk delivered from Eachus Dairy
• You remember the corner store where the St. Agnes Rectory now stands
• You wore bo-bo’s
• You bought some form of water ice from in a dixie cup ffor 10 cents from a house at Washington and New Sts.
• You used to work at the DK Diner
• You pronounce Hoops park “Hups”
• You went to Lenape Park for your school trip
• You listened to WFIL
• You only eat Herr’s Chips – especially since the Charles’ Chips truck don’t come round no more
• You got your Kentucky Fried Chicken at Gino’s
• You remember the Food Fair
• You walked all the way across town because Bevan’s had the best hoagies and 5 cents popsicles

You know you are from Philly when:

• You call your purse a pocketbook
• You eat Dietz and Watson Scrapple with mayonnaise
• You jammed to the tunes at the Black Banana
• You know how to order at Pat’s and Geno’s, but prefer Jim’s
• You berate the fans of any other city’s sports teams, but are quick to turn on your own
• You sit in your front stoop or put a chair right out in the middle of the street
• Your fire hydrant is spouting water all summer long
• You go to Copa for the margaritas
• You know how to pronounce Passyunk
• You know what the Greek Picnic is
• You never got your photo taken next to the Rocky statue because you LIVE there!
• You love Tasty Kakes
• You go to the mac machine
• You know where the “Boulevard” is

You know you are from Ankara when:

• You flash your high beams to let the car in front of you know you are going to pass
• You never consider driving through Kizilay at rush hour
• You treat your friends and new acquaintances like kings but curse at every driver on the road
• You know how to get to each of the million or so neighborhoods
• You know which neighborhood has the “best” of almost anything
• You have a cleaning lady
• You go to Ulus for fish
• You go to Kizilay to get your printer cartridges refilled
• You know where to find bootleg movies
• You can tell the difference between an Ankara resident whose licence plate says “06” and a non-Ankara resident who managed to get an “06” license plate – just by the way they drive
• You call METU “ODTU” (that’s for the expats!)
• You go to the mall for a day out
• You know where to go for the best manti short of Kayseri
• You get your bread at the bakery, your veggies at the pazar, and your meats at the butcher without walking more than one block
• You to to ODTU with your visitors to enjoy a park-like setting, even though you don’t attend that university

Feel free to join in on the fun!  Where are you from and how would we know it?