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...you remember there only being one theatre in town.
...your street name sounds like the name of a poem..."Forty Winks Way," "Barefoot Boy," "The Bowl" (note- many of the street names in Columbia do come from famous poets, along with famous painters and writers. But you knew that).
...you only knew of one mall until you were about 14, when you went to other strange malls...to buy homecoming dresses.
...it's not unusual for you to go to one high school and your sister to go to another.
...you hang out with people from your "village"
...you know what a "village" is.
...you've ever been to a party at centennial park.
...you've been to friendlys when it's full of highschoolers and you still eat there even though the food is HORRIBLE.
...you can't go to target or friendly's without running into someone you know.
...shadowland.
...it's an adventure to go to another village's totlot, because they have a tube/horsey/slide that your totlot doesn't.
...the only things to do after 1 am are go to wendy's or to your high school parking lot.
...you know what the people tree is.
...you recognize the beginning of the holiday season by the lighted trees by the mall.
...at least one of your friends has worked in bob evans.
...you got excited when Chick Fil A opened.
...you miss $2.99 tuesdays.
...you have a derogatory nickname for every other high school in the county...Assholeton, Centesticle, Mt. Heroin, and Long Bitch.
...when you were a kid, you snuck past the mentally challenged ticket holder at Loews.
...you tell people from out of state that you're from Baltimore...just because it's easier.
...you remember route 100 as farm land.
...things from your childhood that are long gone...Roy Rogers, Hechingers, Bradley's, Uptons, and Woody's.
...you've ever partied at the barn.
...you miss the Enchanted Forest.
...when you were too cool for Friendly's, you migrated to the Double T Diner.
...the biggest event of the decade was when the mall was redone.
...there are no privately owned restaurants at all, only chains...
...except Clyde's.
...you remember the smith farm outrage.
...you kept all your old red CA cards.
...you're jealous of people who own their own mailbox.
...you remember when the Golf Course house was just a creepy old haunted house on a hill.
..."thank you for coming to Loews, sit back and relax, enjoy the show."
...you're proud of Edward Norton.
...you either get the Sun or the Post, but everyone gets the Flier.
...before Target, Dicks and Toys R Us, there was a field that a man flew remote controlled planes on.
...being 12 meant taking the swim test so you could go to the pool alone.
...the local hospitals were the one near HCC, and the one in Thunder Hill (aka "the Plan").
...you played soccer from the age of 3.
...Field Trips meant either Washington or Baltimore.
...traffic circles, speed bumps and excessive stop signs are normal ways to prevent speeding.
...half an inch of snow meant no school.
...you yearn to paint your house another color besides brown...but you can't. And it's the same for putting up satelites, adding a deck, letting your grass grow, or getting a pool.
...no house in town is older than 1970...except the creepy old golf house.
by liz and sab.