Rochester

1. "Waking up with the Wease" doesn't mean you have a respiratory infection.
2. The thought of eating a "garbage plate" makes your mouth water.
3. The only thing at the annual May Lilac Festival is snow.
4. The worst four-letter word you could say is "Fuji".
5. You can't swim at the beach.
6. You thought you figured out the alternate parking, but wind up with a ticket anyways.
7. Toronto is about 70 miles away, but it takes four hours to get there.
8. The name "Greater Rochester International Airport" is bigger than the airport itself.
9. There's an 800 number for reporting pot holes in the road.
10. City planners begin yet another feasability study, in lieu of actually doing something.
11. You know that a "Can of Worms" is not something you take fishing.
12. Your baby's first word is "Wegmans".
13. You ask a lifetime resident where the Eastman house is, but they have no idea.
14. In a city where it snows at least 90 inches a year, they build a new sports stadium with no roof on it.
15. Buildings with statues of guys with wings on them are not unusual to you.
16. It can be 70 degrees one day, below freezing the next and you think nothing of it.
17. Your mother is buying outfits to wear to Wegmans.
18. You try to go out to dinner at 8:30PM and everyone's already closed (applies to towns south of 5&20).
19. You hear that there's a "Dome Arena" but your disappointed once you see it too.
20. They build a new store right in front of a vacant one of the same size.
21. Your low-fat diet is never low enough to exclude an Abbot's custard.
22. You order a white-hot and pop, and the counterman knows what your talking about.
23. You can travel from Egypt to Greece in about a half-hour by car.
24. D&C is a newspaper, not a medical procedure.
25. You can find a metered parking spot downtown at the height of Christmas season.
26. You can watch LPGA commercials in December.
27. There are no hamburgers, only ground steak.
28. You can accurately judge people as to their social status by determining wth Wegmans they shop at.
29. You can go to any mall on Saturday and see at least 5 peole you either work with or went to school with.
30. The new line of spring fashions to hit the stores is actually compromised of leftovers from last years line in NYC.
31. A musical comes to town 10 years after it's Broadway debute and the entire town goes nuts.
32. You wake up from a deep sleep, look at the clock and see that it's 6:00, but you have no idea whether it's AM or PM.
33. When 18+ inches of snow falls overnight, you never think of NOT going to work.
34. You are perplexed when friends from come to visit and want to "see the sights".
35. A flagpole strung with white lights seems like an acceptable alternative to a Christmas tree.
36. There is a different "festival" to go to every single weekend from May to September but absolutely nothing happens the remainder of the year.
37. Any new construction project downtown that is over 10 stories is worthy of a front page article in the paper.
38. In winter if the temperature hits 45 degrees and the sun comes out, people walk around downtown wearing sunglasses and no jackets.
39. You and the cat are napping in front of the TV, with the volume low, and a Gabriele Ford commercial comes on at twice the decible level.
40. There are places at the poles that get more sunlight during the winter than we do.
41. Wegmans is somewhere to go on a Friday night, for entertainment.
42. You know who Vinnie and Angelo are.
43. You define summer as 3 months of bad sledding.
44. You think that people from Pennsylvania have an accent.
45. Halloween is snowed out with a great regularity.
46. You have experienced frostbite and sunburn in the same week.
47. Your year has 2 seasons: Winter and Construction.
48. Half the change in your pocket is Canadian, eh.
49. Half the television channels you get are Canadian, eh.
50. It's a disgrace to buy Fuji products.
51. The local pro hockey team is called the Americans but consists of 99% Canadians.