You know you're from
...you know that
... if you live on the
... you know just how fierce the KU vs MU rivalry is; and that you'd best pick a side and stay
loyal.
... your airport is known as KCI (
... you tell visitors that your city is the "City
of
... you've given the following answers: "Yes,
we have tornados." "No, I don't know Dorothy." "No, I've
never met the Wizard and I've never been to Oz."
... you whined through the 90's about Marty ball
and now wish he was back so the chiefs could just make the playoffs.
... you Christmas shop at the Plaza and ice skate
at
... you know better than to try and drive through
"the triangle" at rush hour.
...you've been told that you're going to hell or asked to help a guy put a
"down payment on a cheesburger" when walking
through the plaza.
... you know to get off the interstate if you're
headed into downtown and the traffic report says there's an accident at the
... you know Leawood sucks.
... you've jammed with the Hari
...you know what color gunther
cunninghams awful glasses are.
... you've had a skyscraper at Windsteads.
... you remember how awesome Ward Parkway used to be, and now complain that
you have to go to Town Center
... you've said "but we were in Missouri, so the cops just let us go"
... you very rarely actually go downtown, unless you're going to a convention
at Bartle Hall, a concert at Kemper, or a play at
one of the downtown theatres.
... you've barhopped in
... you brag about having the only WWI memorial in
the nation, but neglect to tell people it looks like a cock and balls.
... you've ridiculed the giant shuttlecock sculptures
on the lawn of the
... you have ever defended dick vermeil for being
such a cry baby.
... you've bragged to others how close you live to the Meth
capital of the world, but thank God its still far away enough to not make
you feel white trash.
... you think
...you've had Brian Busby come to your school to talk about Weather.
... you've had a Gates BBQ employee scream at you,
"May I help you?"
... you've gotten in a fight in gradeschool
over the MU/KU allegiance.
... you call cure and/or Nativity "our lady
of the lexus".
... you know who Tech N9ne is, and freak out during
"We reppin KCMO, the fellas
and the ladies know"
... you know who Belly Boy is.
... you've endured the Monkey Lady.
... the term "the Dot" itself has made
you laugh.
... you know where the Appleby's house is.
... and George Brett's house.
... you brag you're from the
... you keep the fact that you're from KCK a secret.
... you're driving directions always involve
...
... you're mad because Nebraska Furniture Mart used to delivery to Kansas
City for free, all the way from Omaha, but now that they have a big new NFM
store right here in KC, you have to pay for delivery.
... you think that every year is the year the chiefs
will win it all.
... you've spent many a day riding rides and eating
park food at Worlds of Fun.
... you've watched the American Royal parade and
rodeo and sampled BBQ at the annual cookoff.
...you'll only buy a drink at a baseball game if it is advertised by a man
yelling "LEEMONADE LEEMONADE LEEMONADE"
...you know the royals suck, but you refuse to let any Cardinals fan forget
about the 1985 world series.
... you know that KC has a jazz district down at
18th and Vine, even if you've never been there.
... you can't find a steak worthy of your pallette outside of KC.
... you know that if you don't get to Suicide Hill
by 8 AM, you're gonna get nothing but dirt.
... you know the name Buck O'Neil needs to be in
the Baseball Hall of Fame....NOW.
... you know that Union Station wasn't always so
lame.
... you have had some of the best bbq
in your life... at a gas station.
... one of your guilty pleasures is Go Chicken Go,
despite how disgusting it really is.
... you've eaten a meal that was delivered to you
by a model train.
.. regardless if you're from the suburban wannabe KC area, you still tell
people from out of town you're from KC; and that's because it sounds so much
worse to say you're from Shawnee Mission, Leawood,
Overland Park, Liberty, Harrisonville, Belton, Blue Springs, Lee's Summit,
Mission Hills, Olathe, Odessa, Longview, Grandview, Raytown, Merriam, Riverside,
Kearney, De Soto, Fairway, Gladstone, Excelsior, Leavenworth, Ottawa, Prairie
Village, Raymore, Bonner Springs (hahahahaha), Parkville,
Tonganoxie, Unity Village, Westwood, Peculiar, or Riverside. I mean come on,
how lame is that?
... you and your friends have been talking about
stealing a 69 South sign for years.
... you are wary of Flush Creek.
... you still call it Sandstone.
... you've played football on the median of
... you can tell a "Lin Elliot" joke.
... you think Windsteads
craps all over Steak and Shake in Quality and Taste.
... ...you think
... you've celebrated the turning on of christmas lights with about 100,000 other drunk people...
every year.
... you take the back way to Kauffman/Arrowhead by
passing by LC's Barbeque.
... you've drank at
... you know how to make (and have consumed) a Caribou
Lou.
... you went to Knights of
... you know that fireworks sustain
... on nights when you feel like being classy, you
drink Boulevard Wheat with a lemon.
... it can take you up to 45 minutes to get to a
friends house, without traffic.
... you remember Bob "The Hammer" Hamlin.
... one word: Comets.
... you know who the "Nigerian Nightmare"
is.
... you know Manny.
... you set off enough fireworks to blow up
... you went to Waldo Pizza/Imo's/Uno's
before a dance.
... you know the following numbers: 648-8888 and
321-2277 (and can sing the accompanying songs).
... you spent a full day learning how life works
at
... you remember running through the crown center
fountains as a kid.
... you've stood in line for hours to buy a dual
pass for The Edge of Hell and The Beast and complained about how bad the Beast
sucked afterwards
... you've been to Kaleidoscope (and still want to go back).