"You Know You're A Proud Hoosier When..."

• You think the state bird is Larry.(as a kid yes for awhile....)

• There's actually a college near you named "Ball State."

• Your feelings get hurt whenever someone points out the acronym for Purdue University is PU.(Not really... considering I am from Bloomington, that one was used quite frequently and it is kinda funny)

• You've never met any celebrities.

• Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.

• "Vacation" means going to Indiana Beach or Holiday World (Santa Claus, IN). (So True!!!)

• At your county fair, you see all the biggest bands ten years after they were popular.

• You measure distance in minutes.

• You know several people who have hit a deer.

• Down south to you means Kentucky.

• Your school classes were canceled because of cold.

• Your school classes were canceled because of heat.

• You've ridden the school bus for an hour each way.

• You've had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.

• Stores don't have bags, they have sacks.

• You've heard of Euchre, you know how to play Euchre, and you are the master of Euchre.

• You've seen a running car, with nobody in it, in the parking lot of the grocery store, no matter what time of year it is.

• You end your sentences with an unnecessary preposition. Example: "Where's my coat at?" or "If you go to the mall I wanna go with."

• You install security lights on your house and garage, then leave both of them unlocked.

• You think of the major four food groups as beef, pork, beer, and Jell-O salad with marshmallows.

• When asked how your trip was to any foreign, exotic place, you say, "It was different."

• You carry jumper cables in your car regularly and your wife/girlfriend >knows how to use them.

• You drink "pop".

• Kids and dogs ride in the passenger seats of cars and the backs of pickups.

• You think nothing of it in spring and fall to be stuck behind a farm implement driving on the roads. You just hope it's not a hog truck >or a manure spreader.

• High school basketball games draw bigger crowds on the week- >end than movie theaters, IF you have a movie theater.

• Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.

• Newspapers have international news &headlines on one page but requires six for local sports.

• You can repeat the scores of the last eight NBA games, but, unless the MVP is a Hoosier, you are not sure who he is.

• You can see at least two basketball hoops from your yard.

• The biggest question of your youth was IU or Purdue.

• Indianapolis is the BIG CITY.

• Getting stuck by a train is a legitimate excuse for being late to school.

• You know several different definitions as to what a Hoosier really is.

• Everyone knows who the town cops are, where they live, and whether they're at home or on duty.

• To you, tenderloin is not an expensive cut of beef, but a big, salty, breaded piece of pork served on a bun with pickle.

• You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over his snowsuit.

• You know all four seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, construction.

• You actually understand these jokes