"You Know You're From New York City
When..."
1. You say "the city" and expect everyone
to know that it means
Manhattan.
2. You secretly envy cabbies for their
driving skill.
3. You have never been to the Statue
of Liberty or the Empire State
Building.
4. You can get into a four-hour
argument about how to get from
Columbus
Circle to Battery Park at 3:30 on the Friday before a long weekend,
but
can't
find Wisconsin on a map.
5. Hookers and the homeless are
invisible.
6. The subway makes sense.
7. The subway should never be
called anything prissy, like the Metro.
8. You believe that being able
to swear at people in their own
language makes you multi-lingual.
9. You think $7.00 to cross a
bridge is a fair price.
10. You've considered stabbing someone just
for saying "The Big Apple."
11. Your door has more than three locks.
12. You go to a hockey game for the fighting.
In the stands. To
participate.
13. Your favourite movie has DeNiro in it.
14. The most frequently used part of your
car is the horn.
15. You consider eye contact an act of overt
aggression.
16. You call an 8' x 10' plot of patchy grass
a yard.
17. You complain about having to mow it.
18. You are a skee-ball juggernaut.
19. You consider Westchester "Upstate."
20. You cried the day Mayor Ed Koch took over
for Judge Wapner.
21. You run when you see a flashing "Do Not
Walk" sign at the
intersect
