Posted on 06/29/2005 11:37:54 AM PDT by Tribune7
1. You've done extensive landscaping work during the summers.
2. You get annoyed when the snobs you work with in the King of Prussia area have no idea what a "twin home" or a "student loan" is.
3. It took you 5+ years to graduate from a state school (chances are you attended a satellite campus with the word DELCO in the title for the first two years).
4. You believe "bar crawls" a.k.a., a "Pike Hike" is something that is normal when you're well past your early twenties.
5. You constantly complain about going to the same bars and seeing the same people, yet when you venture somewhere "outside your realm", you huddle in the corner with your friends and talk about how everyone in this place is a tool/geek/spaz/etc.
6. You have a DUI.
7. Your father has mutliple DUI's.
8. Your source of "world news" is the DELCO TIMES....yes, that's right, the paper that had a snapshot from the Marple Newtown / Ridley field hockey game on the front cover the day after the Tsunami hit.
9. You know what a "day load" is....and better yet...... you know how to put one on and make it until 2 a.m.
10. You're sick and tired of explaining to people that you're not too old for Sea Isle. Don't apologize for the fact that you have no desire to go to Avalon and Stone Harbor and begin drinking at a "reasonable hour." I'll see you at the "No Shower" happy hour or catch you on the next Erin Express. If you don't what either of those are, you shouldn't be reading this list .
11. Not only does the following sentence make sense to you, it describes your favorite day of the year: "Today I'm taking the trolley from the Trophy Tavern down to the El to go to the parade." Say that sentence to one of those Episcopal/St. Joe's Prep/Malvern grads you work with and get ready for the most confused look you've ever seen.
12. You're a bartender (or you may be a 26 yr. old barBACK waiting for your "big break")
13. You have shared a bedroom at your parent's house with a sibling at a weird age (we'll ballpark this at 16 and above. very weird.)
14. You can't accept the fact that it's not normal to go out drinking hard on weeknights past the age of 22. If you don't believe me on this one, go to Maggie O'Neill's on any random Sunday night. Even though Monday is considered the busiest day of the week for normal people, this place looks like a god damn Mardi Gras.
15. The ratio of bars to bookstores in you neighborhood is 47:1.....not quite Bryn Mawr, huh?
16. You don't spend Thankgiving day with your family, but rather start drinking in the morning on your way to see your grade school football team play. Congratulations, you're not only an alcoholic, but your glory days go back to grade school. Even Springsteen wouldn't sing about this pathetic display.
17. You walked to high school. Tell this to the same person you talked to about reason #1 and watch their eyes cross as they squeeze the keys to their Saab.
18. You have no idea what's at the end of the Blue Route (does it even end?)
19. While some refer to traveling as "backpacking through Europe", your idea is more along the lines of going to Cancun about a decade to late when you're 27 and hanging onto your youth by the skin of your teeth.
20. When describing someone else from Delco, you say their name, state that you know them, say they're a good guy/girl, and then say their high school or the parish they're from. example, "yeah, John Doe, he's a good guy, Bonner/St. Bernie's guy, coaches football for (fill in Delco school here) and bartends at (fill in Delco bar here).
There is some truth to this.
And you buy milk, bread and eggs before every snowstorm..
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You moved to South Philly to get away from your parents and now you live on top of a bar in a neighborhood less than 5 years away from becoming an absolute Camden-style ghetto.
Umm... You open up a news thread called, "Tope 20 signs you're from Delaware County."
We do that too in Pittsburgh before a storm, but I'm clueless about the rest of the list. I'm obviously not from Delco!
>> And you buy milk, bread and eggs before every snowstorm.. <<
That's a nationwide phenomenon.
I've never understood why French Toast is so popular during snowstorms.
2. You get annoyed when the snobs you work with in the King of Prussia area have no idea what a "twin home" or a "student loan" is.
3. It took you 5+ years to graduate from a state school (chances are you attended a satellite campus with the word DELCO in the title for the first two years).
so true...
What, no toilet paper?
Maybe I just don't want to know...
(After all, what else do you use milk, bread and eggs for. Apparently, French toast gives people the runs, too, because Toilet Paper sells very well before snowstorms, also.)
(The MSM calls this behavior, "stocking up," as if it has nothing to do with French Toast, but come on... don't most people NORMALLY have more than a few days supply of toilet paper?)
I presume they drink a lot back East because there's nothing else to do?
8. Your source of "world news" is the DELCO TIMES....yes, that's right, the paper that had a snapshot from the Marple Newtown / Ridley field hockey game on the front cover the day after the Tsunami hit.
its not delco times - its daily times!! and theres nothing wrong with it!!
What does that say about me?
You sort of have to be there to get the humor.
don't you know the cows stop giving milk, the bakers stop baking bread, and the hens stop laying eggs before a snowstorm ???? whattsmadda wid you eddicat'n ?
I grew up in Berwyn but that is not in DelCo but in Chester Co.! I moved to Jacksonville, FL during my high school years and the "here the hell is BERwyn PA?" was frequent! Now live in Ambler PA (MONTCO)
Who knew?
think Norristown... KofP people know what twin homes are - they just don't live in them.
That statement covers ALL of Eastern PA.
Actually in Maryland the top pre-storm sellers are bottled water and toilet paper. Go figure?
Two of them in fact -- one in Delaware County and one in Montgomery County -- and never the twain shall meet.
Two of them in fact -- one in Delaware County and one in Montgomery County -- and never the twain shall meet.
What, no toilet paper?
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Whatsamatta... you don't have a left hand ??? ;-))
Thank you.
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Thank you.
You know you're from Central Pa. if. (and I make this up as I go along...)1) You grew up watching the Land of Hatchy Malatchy.
2) You had to walk off a friend's farm to use the phone at the end of the road.
3) You can get a free drink at the Amity House because you know the legend of the Disdelfink.
4) Your family photo album has pictures of you camping out in the basement during the TMI scare.
5) If you didn't compete against a guy from another town in football, wrestling, or track -- you were gay.
6) Your high school rifle team was allowed to bring their competition rifles to school the week of a meet.
7) The Christmas display in your downtown park includes Santa Claus, Baby Jesus, and at least two live whitetail deer.
8) Your most memorable school field trips were 1500 feet below the surface of the Earth in an Anthracite mine.
9) Thanksgiving dinner wouldn't be complete without pearl onions, Polenta, and rootbeer Schnapps.
10) Sorry folks, school's closed this week. It's deer season, you know.
11) Buying quilts in a store is just unnatural... you pull off the side of the road, honk your horn, and load up the trunk.
12) Your high school diploma had either C, V, or N designations (College Prep, VoTech, or Normal).
13) You have heard the phrase, "Happy 15th birthday! Now smoke up!"
14) Sunday mornings are usually spent complaining that the Southern Baptists are WAY too liberal.
"bump" for later, and "neighbor state" *ping*...LOL!
21) Your last overnight stay in Philly was because the R3 Media/Elwyn line lost power just before rush hour, AGAIN.
dont forget the usual "switch" or "signal" problems as your train sits motionless halfway between suburban and 30th street for a half hour about once a week.
At the Ack-uh-mee...
What is with all these colors & names that end with "line". Don't y'all have pickup trucks over there?
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Gotta confess that I visit the Home Depot almost as much.
Still prefer it over Total Wine and you are a Delco boy.
Two of them. Montco & Delco. Delclo's the one with the Mall and High School.
That's cuz you don't live near the trolley.
True, but you are not being fair to the people who live near Chester, Crum & Ridley creeks.
Crum Creek was the fun one with Floyd with the reports of the Springton Reservoir Dam about to burst.
I'm from Delco and I'm clueless too. I think you have to be under 25.
ping
You're an old timer. Not many remember the Bazaar of all nations.
LOL! You're the best, Trib! Day-load. DUI... yup.
Owl_Eagle(If what I just wrote makes you sad or angry,
So, does this mean Delaware County is the "East Texas" of Pa?
Yes --sans mullets & pickupx:-)
The funny thing is Delco also includes a nice chunk of the Main Line, Chadds Ford, Villanova and Swarthmore (regrettably)
Dang, you take away the mullets and pickups and all you have is stupid..... ;^)
There is a lot of that here.
Well, let me just say that Anna Nicole Smith is from East Texas.....can you top that for stupid?
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