You know you’re from ALABAMA when…

You have a party or a barbeque whenever Alabama plays Auburn in football.

You go to Gulf Shores every summer.

You call the Atlanta Braves baseball team "us" like they're actually from Alabama .

You would much rather visit Florida than California .

You don't "take", you "carry" or "tote"... as in "You want me to carry you down to the 7-11?"

A soft drink isn't soda, cola, or pop, it's COKE.

You call it a "buggy" and not a shopping cart.

You've said "fixin' to," "might could," or "usetacould" during the last week.

Someone you know has used a football schedule to plan their wedding date.

You know the meaning of the phrase "Fobbed again."

You can properly pronounce Arab, Eufaula, Opelika , Loachapoka, Bayou La Batre, and Oneonta.

You know exactly what chitlins and mountain oysters are, and you know someone who eats them anyway.

You aren't surprised to find rental movies, groceries, ammunition and bait all in the same store.

You've missed a wedding or a funeral to go to a football game.

Asian food is always "CHINESE" regardless of the fact that it may actually be Korean or Japanese or Thai.

People actually grow, eat, and like okra.

Mamanem means the whole family. ("Are mamanem comin?")

You measure distance in minutes.

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

You know what "cow tipping" is.

The local papers cover national and international news on
one page but require 6 pages for sports.

You think that the first day of deer season is a national
holiday.

You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still
summer, and Christmas.

You know whether another Alabamian is from east, west, or middle Alabama as soon as they open their mouth.

Visiting Wal-Mart is a favorite pastime.

You can drive without your license because you know if a cop stops you he'll know you and let you go.

You know the difference between redneck, hillbilly, and southerner.

You think everybody from the north has an accent.**

You claim "Y'all" is a word.

There is no such thing as tea.. It's Sweet Tea.

If a single snowflake falls, the town is paralyzed for three days, and it's on all the channels as a news flash every 15 minutes for a week. All grocery stores will be sold out of milk, bread, bottled water, toilet paper, and beer. If there is a remote chance of snow, and if it does snow, people will be on the corner selling "I survived the blizzard" tee-shirts.

Your directions include "when you see the Waffle House" or "turn on the dirt road."

You say "sir" and "ma'am" if there's even a chance someone is even thiry seconds older than you.

The falling of one rain drop causes all drivers to immediately forget all traffic rules; so will daylight savings time, a girl applying eye shadow in the next car, or a flat tire three lanes over.

There is nothing but country on the radio.

A tornado warning siren is your signal to go out in the yard and look for a funnel.

Almost everyone you know is Baptist or Methodist.

You know everything goes better with Ranch dressing.

You learned how to shoot a gun before you learned how to multiply.

You know at least one Bubba, and maybe a few guys named Bo.

You don't assume the car with the blinker light on is actually going to turn anytime in the near future.

Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor.

 

lol I was stuck behind a tractor today

AND I know a guy named Beau

 

Alabama woman charged with dui on horseback

 

Classic... I can relate to almost all of them.. and I moved here from the north.. useta think yal'll were strange down here too..

 

What does "usetacould" mean?

And what are chitlins and mountain oysters?

 

I got stuck behind a tractor this weekend! hahaha
I can relate to 75% of them. Too Freakin funny

 

I will use it in a sentance for you...

I usetacould ride wheelies... Now I have a brokeback and can't walk...

Sorry Dale.. had to use you as an example...lol


Chitlans are cooked pig intestins... mountain oysters.. hell I dunno on that one... I guess thats part of the chicago in me still

 

like used to could.... I usetacould do a split 3 ways... for example.

rocky mountain oysters are *********. chiltlins are like intestines I think?

 

eww.. can't say I've had the rocky mountain oysters or the chitlins.. and I eat almost anything....

But okra is the ****!!!

 

do you guys say "tennis shoes" or "sneakers"? or somethign else..

 

that would be tenni shoes.....i dont know about the oyster but i do know about the clam

 

I call the shoes... or kicks...lol

 

i say tennis shoes

 

its all good jerry, I figured you would use my gimp *** as an example.







But MIKe for it to be easier for you to understand ustacould means "I used to be able to"

 

tenny may have been the way to spell that....

 

YEAH----more like tennyshoes...

 

yeah its kind of scary that I can relate to a little over half of whats in that

I still got some mexican in me! Right Jerry :YEAH

mountain oysters sounds nasty....and I say shoes, or zapatos lol

 

zapatos... ^^ fawking beaner!!!

 

I say tennis shoes

 

Mmm fried Okra. So yummy. My granny makes the best southern food.