1. You know exactly how long it will take you to
get to any one location from another inside the YC.
2. The Pizza Shop is not in your vocabulary and your nightly plans, you are
seriously out of the social loop.
3. You've been taken down Crawford Road ONLY ONCE and have sworn to never go
back.
4. You see more than 5 people you know on your weekly trip to FoodLion.
5. A "snow flurry warning" means all the schools are shutting down for at least
3 days and you wont even have your sled out.
6. You cant go out with that person cause you are somehow related.
7. You cant go to another state without getting made fun of for saying "y'all."
8. You know more than 5 people that work at the carwash.
9. Winn-Dixie parking lot is a general meeting place.
10. You sit around for at least 2 hours with all your friends bitching that "theres
nothing to do in this stupid county."
11. When you DO get out of the county, for some odd reason, you just cant wait
to go back.
12. You skip school to eat at POP's.
13. Half of your graduating class goes to Thomas Nelson (Harvard on the
Highway).
14. You go to Gloucester when youre underage to get a tattoo or piercing.
15. You have worked at Busch Gardens or Water Country, or pondered the thought at least once in
your life.
16. You got a Euro Splash pass every Christmas up until you were about 15.
17. At least one of your parents went to a high school within about 15 minutes
of the YC, or most likely York or Tabb.
18. If you are a Tabb Tiger, you hate everyone from York.
19. If you are a York Falcon, you hate everyone from Tabb.
20. If you are a Tiger or Falcon, you definitly hate everyone from Grafton.
21. Youve done all your school shopping at Patrick Henry since elementary
school.
22. Half of your group of friends have been friends since Kindergarden.
23. Youve been to the Peninsula Family Skating Center at least once.
24. When you have "a couple people over," you see at least 20 of your friends,
along with about 10 people youve never even talked to.
25. When you throw a party, the WHOLE COUNTY shows up.
26. Youve gotten a ticket from, pulled over by (or at least harrassed by), or
seen so many times youve befriended, Felton Johnson.
27. You personally know the whole staff at "Uppy's" (formerly know as the
infamous BP)
28. You can tell who lives in Marlbank Cove just by their cars.
29. You know what the "big cheese" is.
30. Your graduating class wasnt bigger than 200 people.
31. Youve dated at least 2 people that one of your friends has already dated.
32. You go to Yorktown beach to "cruise the strip" when you are bored.
33. Youve been to at least 3 "carshows" at SuperKmart.
34. You remember when Mark Medford was 'Deputy Medford' from D.A.R.E. (Just Say
NO!)
35. A fun night out is going to the bowling alley and sitting in the cloud of
packs upon packs of cigarette smoke (or you are smoking them yourself).
36. You know where the 'power lines' and what you do there.
37. You remember when Seaford Country Market was Burnette's.
38. You attended 6th grade in a trailer.
39. You get gas at either Red Barn, 7-11, or Race Track... whichever one is less
than a dollar a gallon.
40. Your school charges 100 dollars a year to park but they cant seem to paint
the numbers dark enough in each space so you even know what space to pull in to.
41. Your school gets new football and basketball uniforms every year but cant
seem to fix the roof, even though the school gets evacuated every time it
sprinkles.
42. You automatically classify a person that goes to HRA as rich, stuck-up, and
snobby.
43. You have a truck or a boat that is as tall as your house.
44. You tell someone your biggest secret and the WHOLE COUNTY KNOWS in an hour.
45. You find a can of dip and some Bud Light bottles in your 12 year old
brothers room.(okay, yah... thats a little far-fetched)
46. You slow down every time you get within 200 yards of the fire department
building, because you already know they got radar out ready to ticket you.
47. You failed, or are best friends with someone who failed their driving permit
test at least once.
48. There's at least one person in your school who always has to go after EVERYONES BOYFRIEND/GIRLFRIEND! (dont want to point any fingers!).
49. Langley Speedway is a common hangout for the Seafordians and Poquosonians.
50. Your truck is so muddy from going muddin' that people just assume its brown.
51. It only takes 15 minutes max to get from the county to anywhere outside the county.
52. You still call the McDonalds on 17 and Ft. Eustis the "Oldies McDonalds"
53. Your Friday nights in the fall consist of a football game and an all-nighter at the Pizza Shop.
54. You refer to the 20 feet of sand in Yorktown as "The Beach."
55. One snowflake falls and 100 people are out at WolfTrap park trying to sled down the "hills".
56. Half the people you know live off of Seaford Road.
57. You could go down Hornsbyville Road going 60mph in the pitch black with your eyes closed.
58. The only person youve never made fun of for wearing blue plaid bellbottom highwaters and a tan tripped shirt is Mr. Chapman, the nicest substitute ever (aka Mr. Rogers!)
59. You were only cool in middle school if you were on the "best team."
60. You know that Marlbank "Farms" and "Cove" are NOT the same thing.
61. You get labeled a hick(and you're really not one).
62. You go to Grafton and you hate everyone from Tabb and York.
63. You've been to, or at least heard of, one of "Dude's" infamous keggers.
64. You notice the freshman (especially the girls) get worse and worse every year.
65. $35,000 is premium salary for a teacher.
66. You know people old enough to be your parents that had the same teachers that you have.
67. You never can remember that Bruton is in the school district.
68. Youre from York, Tabb or Grafton and you dont have any problems with people from Bruton because you dont know anyone that even goes there.
69. Theres a bomb threat at school and they make you go a whole 100 feet out past the building as if it wont blow you up that "far" out...
70. Your school blocks every website from search engines to educational sites, but cant seem to block any of the gay porn sites that pop up when you type in 'www.georgewashington.com' (or something of that nature).
71. The dress code prohibits spaghetti strap tanktops and wifebeaters but the cheerleaders are allowed to walk around with half their buttcheeks showing.
72. You know that girls merely have to show cleavage and wear a short skirt to pass Algebra 2(Thats for my York peeps).
73. You have made a special trip down to The Pub in Yorktown to buy cigarettes out of the machine, underaged, even though they were 4 bucks a pack.
74. You 'cut a rug' once or more at the Jewish Mother, before it burnt to the ground.
75. You attended Mitty's Teen night on Sundays of a 3-day weekend and thought it was the coolest thing ever(at the time).
76. You actually used to shop at Rose's.
77. You remember when the Pizza Shop was Video Update, or better yet... Video Unlimited.
78. You still call Cinco de Mayo, "ElMariachi's"
79. You have attended, or at least remember the old drive-in movie theatre on 17.
80. You've seen 'the bowling alley' change its names like 100 times.
81. You never knew who was actually the home team at football games, since all 3 schools in the lower county shared one "stadium."
82. The hardest part of middle school was deciding what to wear to the monthly dance and asking your biggest crush to dance to the last 'makeout' song, "Stairway to Heaven" or "No Woman, No Cry."
83. Your Homecomings were held in your school's cafeteria, complete with lunch decorations, dirty lunch tables, and your pictures were taken in the infamous library.
84. You, or someone you know, played football or cheerleaded for the York-Seaford Bulldogs or Grafton-Tabb Tigers.
85. You remember when Tabb Middle school were the Trojans and York Middle school were the Chargers.
86. You remember when there was a 'puttputt' and driving range on 17 across from the new Rite Aid.
87. Your family used to shop at Belo, where Grannys is now.
88. You know that Bruton is NOT in Williamsburg.
89. You know that Rochambeau is pronounced Ro-SHAM-Bo.
90. You never saw your mascot at a sporting event because who the heck wanted to walk around in a boat anyway?
91. Your "school cop"(Murray, Diggs, Hicks and Holland) was either your best friend or your worst enemy.
92. You can sign either of your parents names exactly from all that practice for the attendance office.
93. The WHOLE COUNTY takes over Nags Head during Beach Week!
94. You remember when the AMC6 or (whatever it was) at Patrick Henry mall was the closest and most happenin' place to see a movie.
95. You remember life before SuperK, Kroger, AMC24 and that ice skating rink, whatever its called... back when only county folks ever crossed the county line.
96. One word... Ditto"s.
97. You have skipped school atleast once to go to CC's Pizza for their 2.99 all you can eat lunch special.
98. You know that York Coach Tim Martin is forbidden to go to almost every high school in the YC district.
99. You have skipped school more than once to swim or tan at Yorktown "Beach"
100. 8th Grade dance was the BIGGEST thing that ever happened to middle school.
101. If you went to York, Grafton, or Tabb, you have dated, hooked up with, or "talked" to someone from one of the other two schools.
102. You find yourself going to Savannah's, County Grill, or TGIFridays when you come back to the YC on breaks to go out.
103. You still hang out with the "County" no matter how far away you move!
104. When you go to a party at college, you still see at least one person who is from the county.
105. You're are still friends with your "steady boyfriend/girlfriend" from elementary school.
106. When you're out of the YC and talk about the "County"... no one seems to understand!
107. You've never lived closer than an hour to a mall that is more than one story high.
108. Your family or someone you know owns some sort or
boat or jet ski.
109. You remember when Ken and Charles Vaughan lived in the haunted house on the river, and have attended at least one party there.
110. You remember or ever owned Pogs...
111. You have gotten bored and gone to play around in K-mart, Target, or Toys-R-Us.
112. One of your field trips in 8th grade was walking to the battlefields like you had never been there before(York kids)....
113. You cannot even get down Cook Road on 4th of July because of the 3 hour backup to get there for the annual fireworks.
114. You scroll through the guestbook on this page and recognize 95% of the peoples names who signed it!
115. You were a part of, or at least heard about, the riot that followed Christine V. stealing the Tabb Tiger mascot head at Tabb's Homecoming Game in 1999.
116. You know Poquoson is NOT in the COUNTY.
117. BayDays is the biggest social event of the year.
118. You had a fieldtrip to Jamestown every year in elementary school, as if it was REALLY exciting!
119. They changed the zoning lines so often that you went to Grafton, your brother went to York and the girl next door went to Tabb.
120. You, or someone you know, went to Summer Fun.
121. You have either played or worked for YC Parks and Recreation. (softball, baseball, basketball, tennis..)
122. In elementary school, your first field trip was to the "Pumpkin Patch" and it was sooooo fun!
123. You have had to walk the trails of the Virginia Living Museum over and over and over...
124. You've gone on search for, or maybe even purchased, a pet from the SPCA.
125. Half of your family lives in Virginia (and most likely right down the street!).
126. Your parents are either own their own business, are military, work at the Shipyard, or are professionals (doctors, lawyers, etc).
127. You go, went, or plan to go to Virginia Tech, CNU, Thomas Nelson, ODU, JMU or Radford.(I know all you other people out there feel left out, but you know damn well that you at least applied to more than one of these places...)
128. You are tired of this place so the only schools you apply to are out of state.
129. You know where "William and Larry" is...
130. You drive down the parkway when youre in one of those 'relaxed' moods, just to get away from the 64 traffic.
131. You're so tired of Busch Gardens and the same ole' rides they've had for years that you've just stopped going all together (that is.. except for when the relatives come in town and your mom makes you take your annoying little cousins that want to stay alllll day long and ride every single ride they are tall enough for.)
132. There are 2 Kmarts, now 2 Walmarts and like 50 grocery stores, not including the ones that arent open for business anymore.
133. You've been to a Tides game.
134. One word: "Targeeaaaay."
135. You've seen that little place across from 'Joe and Mimma's' and by the fire station on 17 change businesses so many times that you know whenever a new person moves in, theyre going to be gone within 6 months. (Ditto"s has got to hold the record there, maybe like a year or so....?)
136. You know its not the sunrise, but merely the flame from the AMOCO plant.
137. You know that a certain teacher from middle school only changed her weave ONCE A YEAR!
138. You remember when Mrs. Brownscheidle from YMS went from a 6th grade teacher to a PE teacher/softball coach!
139. You know the difference between an "even" and "odd" day.
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