Blog Assignment #7

YOU MIGHT BE FROM LOUISIANA IF...

The crawfish mounds in your front yard have over taken the grass.

You greet people with "Howzyamomma'an'dem?" and hear back "Dey fine!"

Every so often, you have waterfront property.

When you refer to a geographical location "way up North," you are referring to places like Shreveport, Little Rock or Memphis, "where it gets real cold."

You judge a poboy by the number of napkins used.

You can properly pronounce Lafayette, Bossier, Natchitoches, Opelousas, Shongaloo, Pontchartrain, Ouachita, and you know that New Orleans doesn't have a long "e" sound anywhere in it

You think people who complain about the heat in their states are sissies.

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

You know that the true value of a parking space is not determined by the distance to door but by the availability of shade.

You cringe every time you hear an actor with a Southern or Cajun accent in a "New Orleans-based" movie or TV show.

You measure distance in minutes.

You listen to the weather forecast before picking out an outfit.

You know everything goes better with Tony's or Tabasco.

you have ever had to switch from heat to AC in the same day.

you use "fix" as a verb. Example: "I am fixing to go to the store."

All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, insect, or mammal.

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

You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good gumbo weather.

Fried catfish is the other white meat

You sit down to eat boiled crawfish and your host says, "Don't eat the dead ones," and you know what he means.

You don't learn until high school that Mardi Gras is not a national holiday.

Your last name isn't pronounced the way it's spelled.

You know what a nutria is but you still pick it to represent your baseball team.

No matter where else you go in the world, you are always disappointed in the food.

Your grandparents are called "Maw-Maw" and "Paw-Paw."

Your Santa Claus rides an alligator and your favorite Saint is a football player.

You have to reset your clocks after every thunderstorm.

You know what it means for food to come 'dressed'

you 'ax' for things...

when you ask people where they went to school, they answer with their high school

You save newspapers, not for recycling but for tablecloths at crawfish boils

You "wrench" your hands in the sink with an onion bar to get the crawfish smell off.

You don't realize until high school what a "county" is.

You like your rice and politics dirty.

You assume everyone has mosquito swarms in their backyard.

You realize the rain forest is less humid than Louisiana.

You've ever wore shorts at Christmas time.

You pronounce Lafayette as "Laffy-ette" not "La-fy-ette".

You learned to drive a boat before you could drive a car.

You can name all of your 3rd cousins.

You plan your vacation around hunting season & LSU football.

You go by "ya-mom-en-'dems" on Good Friday for family supper.

You have a ditch on at least one side of your property.

You can list all the ingredient's of a gumbo or a jambalaya.

You know the difference between the old bridge & the new bridge.

If you ever had to wait for the bridge to "come down" so you can get home.

You can't think of anybody that can cook better than your momma.

Your sunglasses fog up when you step outside, even in December.

Your ancestors are buried above the ground.

You drink Community Coffee.

Your house payment is less than your utility bill.