YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM INDIANA WHEN............

YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM INDIANA WHEN............

• You think the state Bird is Larry. 
• You can say "French Lick" without laughing out loud. 
• There's actually a college near you named "Ball State." 
• You know Batesville is the casket making capital of the world, and you're proud of it.
• You could never figure out spring forward-fall back, so screw Daylight Savings Time! 
• Your feelings get hurt whenever someone points out the acronym for Purdue University is PU. (for Jeremy) 
• You know several people who have hit a deer. 
• Down south to you means Kentucky. 
• You have no problem spelling or pronouncing Terre Haute. 
• Your school classes were canceled because of cold. 
• Your school classes were canceled because of heat. 
• You know what the phrase "knee-high by the Fourth of July" means. 
• 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. 
• Detassling was your first job. Baling hay, your second. Or you could stack hay, swim in the pond to clean off and then have the strength to play a couple of games of hoops, all in the same barn lot on the same day. 
• You say things like catty-wampus and kitty corner. 
• You install security lights on your house and garage, then leave both of them unlocked. 
• You carry jumper cables in your car regularly. 
• You drink pop. 
• You know that baling wire was the predecessor to duct tape. 
• You know that strangers are the only ones who come to your front door. 
• 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 weekend than movie theaters, IF you have a movie theater. 
• Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow. 
• The local paper covers national and international 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. 
• You can name every one of Bobby Knight's exploits over the last few years.