Ok I found this on face book and had to post it. It really brought me back. I know there is a TON and they aren't numbered correctly. That's cause I took out the ones I didn't understand. So I guess you all know Im not form winnepeg now. hehehe. If you would like to see the whole list you can go to http://www.facebook.com/group.php?sid=e01c27510f1650340557f6836e97e5dd&refurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fs.php%3Fsid%3De01c27510f1650340557f6836e97e5dd%26q%3Dwinnipeg%26init%3Dq%26sf%3Dt&gid=2216023652. Alot of them had to do with drinking and bars and well I wouldn't have any idea about that now would I! Hope you enjoy.
You know you're from Winnipeg when...
1. "Vacation" means going to Brandon for the weekend.
2. You measure distance in hours.
3. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
4. You know of several people who have hit deer more than once.
5. You use a down comforter in the summer.
6. Your grandparents drive at 100 km/h through four meters of snow during a blizzard, without flinching.
7. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use them.
8. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
9. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled.
10. You know all four seasons: Almost winter, winter, still winter, and construction.
11. You are bundled up in three sweaters, a parka, ski pants, a toque, twopairs of mittens, boots past your knees in 3 feet of snow in a -35 (-8000 with the wind-chill) blizzard, your eyelashes are frozen together, your nose is running, you can't feel your toes, and you still stop at 7 Eleven for a Slurpee on the way home. I actually did this on a day we were told to go home cause it was tooo cold!
12. You still think the Winnipeg Jets are the best hockey team ever.
13. You refer to 7-11 simply as "Sev". Yep all the time!
14. You love a a good slurpee, regardless of whether its -40 or +40 outside.
15. You've been to a birthday party at Discovery Zone and waited in line with everyone else to swing from the cable hit the mat at the end!
16. You call jelly filled donuts Jambusters.
17. You've gone to Corydon for gelato.
18. You still remember the Winnipeg Jets.
19. Higgins and Main. Enough said.
20. You've been to Sargent Sundae, or BDI.
21. Teddy Bears picnic, anyone?
22. You know how to properly pronounce Lagimodiere, Disraeli, and Pembina. I can only pernouce the last one correctly. But only cause we drove on it alot.
23. A road trip is heading down to Grand Forks
24. You know where all the red light cameras are. Oh YA!
28. All directions start with "You take Portage..."
29. The minute it hits 0 degrees, you're in shorts and a t-shirt.
32. You know what a social is.
33. Mosquitoes don't even phase you anymore.
34. You plug your car in during the winter.
37. You're proud to be Slurpee Capital of Canada.
38. You WERE proud to be murder capital of Canada.
40. You can argue the merits of boiled or fried perogies.
41. You remember the dates of major blizzards and floods.
42. Driving in winter is easier because all the potholes are filled with snow.
44. You know that school is never cancelled even during the worst of blizzards.
45. You understand that everyone is connected to everyone in Winnipeg.
49. You're tired of having to switch into the slow lane to drive faster.
55. Only you can make fun of Winnipeg.
57. Everyone is separated by 3 degrees of separation.
58. You can successfully navigate Confusion Corner.
61. You've had your car broken into, stolen, or know someone who has.
62. It snows in May, and you don't even flinch.
66. You've pondered why there is a 13' golden naked boy standing on top of your legislative building.
68. You are proud to not wear a jacket when you are in another city and it's -1 and everyone else is all bundled up as if the next ice age has arrived.
71. You have devised new and creative ways to kill mosquitoes.
73. You have thought of (and perhaps even tried) new ways to outwit the photo radar systems.
76. If you have left Winnipeg for some reason, you have found a clan of prairie folk with whom to chant 'go jets go' .
79. You get a new bike for Christmas, and have to wait 6 months to ride it.
82. The mosquitoe is your provincial bird.
83. You tell everyone at home you hate the Peg, but when you leave it's suddenly the best place in the world.
84. You know the number to Pizza Hotline.
85. You know the price of each size of slurpee AND how much it costs to get a refill ($1.12 baby!!).
86. If you're proud that we make the national news 96 nights each year because Winnipeg is the coldest spot in the nation.
87. If Dairy Queen is closed from September through May.
88. If you start to get a tan line in the middle of your forehead.
89. You don't get to the airport until 1/2 an hour before your flight, yet the airport is so empty that you still get on the plane. With ease.
90. It's early December and you're blown away that the community centres don't have outdoor ice yet.
92. If you know of at least 10 people that have moved to Calgary.
93. If you refuse to buy a Slurppee from Macs.
94. If you you are apalled by the lack of Slurppee selection (not even to mention the number of Sev's) in other provinces.
97. If pay utmost attention to the news whenever they mention something Winnipeg related - triple murder or not.
100. If you've waited outside a store at 5:00am for a Boxing Day doorcrasher sale.
102. If you call it a "toque" not a hat. That's just wrong.
105. If you actually know that Flin Flon is not a made up town.
106. If you think Winnipeg being featured in the Simpsons was one of the city's best achievements.
109. If you think Global Warming is a total crock...we're still waiting for some changes..
112. You're amazed that there are hip hop groups in Winnipeg, and that one even has a song called "Peg City".
114. You've wondered who's bright idea it was to make our buses orange, yet you were outraged when they started painting them white.
116. You have gotten your tongue stuck to a pole or zipper.
117. You're "stuck in rushhour" means an extra 5 minutes to your ride home.
118. You walk into an arena in the winter to warm up.
122. The best tobogganing within city limits is down a hill made from garbage.
124. You know the exact time in which skin freezes at different temperatures.
128. You're excited for it to be -15 outside.
129. You jumped up and down with glee when Desperate Housewives acknowleged Winnipeg's existence... TWICE!
130. You're SURPRISED when all four lanes of traffic are open [not under construction/being cleared] on a main road.
131. The weather can change from +5 to -50 in the timespan of a week.
133. Your family activities are shovelling the driveway.134. You get pissed off at the person who cut into your lane while driving and never waved in the review mirror.
137. From Dec to Feb, anytime you walked anywhere while in elementary school, the sound of Sorell boots scraping the ground followed you.
138. The cops stop to let someone j walk in front of them.
139. You notice that the highest elevation point within a 16 km radius is at the snow disposal sights.
141. You buy a car, and choose the color based on what it looks like covered with slush/snow.
149. You don't ask why there's plugs hanging out of everyone's car.
150. Your car is equipped with a shovel, scraper, mitts, etc...
153. You see city construction workers on their lunch break at 8:20am.
154. When the city calls Disraeli a freeway.
156. When you enter the north end and it looks like a new city.
157. When you see "road under construction" signs up 3 years after the city put them there. Then you call the city to find out what's going on and they say "we forgot about that."
159. When its not uncommon to see "Man robs 7-11 and flees on bicycle where he was arrested minutes later" on the front page of our newspaper.
160. When you move away for a year,and come back to your old friends saying "why would you ever come back here?"
161. When you hear Winnipeggers bragging about things like being the slurpee capital of the world and that Fred Penner was born here.
162. When the security guards at portage place where SWAT vests.
163. When the two busiest roads, Kenaston and Bishop Grandin, have traffic lights.
165. You know what a block heater is and what command start is.
166. You brag that at least we’re not Saskatchewan.
167. You don’t stop cursing while trying to drive through downtown.This ones for Aubrey Jenkins
168. You claim to be part of western Canada.
169. You complain about everything and claim it’s your right, you’re from Winnipeg.
171. You know how to parallel park on a snowbank.
172. You laugh at Vancouver when the city shuts down because of a light powdering of snow.
173. You brag that we have the best snowclearing in the country.
174. Fashion is the latest MEC parka, accessorized with large gortex mitts, a wool scarf, a toque, sorrels and a shovel.
175. The provincial sports teams are made up solely of Winnipeggers.
176. The gates at the Winnipeg airport are labeled in letters, instead of numbers.
177. The ski hill is a ditch with a chairlift.
178. You brag that at least it’s a DRY cold.
180. You’re surprised and disappointed to find out we didn’t break a record (cold, wind, snow, rain) today.
181. You talk in terms of windchills and humidex factors.
182. You know the Sun is not a newspaper.
183. You start your car every hour when you can’t plug it in.
184. You’ve gotten a ticket because your car died on a snow route over night and all the tow trucks were backed up until the morning. Well the car didn't die. I hadn't lived in Winnipeg that long at the time and didn't know about the snow routes.
185. You can breath without inhaling smog.
186. You can fall asleep at the wheel on the highway, and wake up two hours later to the same view of fields and barns.
187. You know that Fall isn’t a season. It’s the day between green grass and snowbanks.
192. You dont use turn signals.
193. You've almost run over a deer.
195. You've used your ice scraper on the INSIDE of your car window.All the time!
197. You know that one street can have 6 names: (Oak Point Highway, Brookside, Route 90, Kenaston, Bishop Grandin, King Edward).
198. Or 8 names: Salter, Isabel, BALMORAL, Colony, Memorial, Osborne, Dunkirk and Dakota.
200. You're considered 'naked' when wearing two layers outdoors.
201. You're proud that Winnie-the-Pooh is from there.
203. $10 an hour is considered a decent wage.
204. You have made bannock at some point in your life.
205. The zipper pull on your parka is a tiny thermometer with a wind-chill chart on the back.
207. You're still pissed off that there's no IKEA here.
209. One word TINKERTOWN!
211. Every second car you see is either a pontaic sunfire or a chevy cavalier. Cavalier!!!!!
213. Shopping at a Shopper's Drug Mart is as good as shopping at the mall.
215. You can buy a 5 bedroom house up there for $100,000, where in Virginina it would cost you at least $900,000 to a million.
216. You've used your bank card or another card in your wallet to scrape your windows.
217. You've driven to work looking through a tiny scraped area on your windshield and the rest of your car COVERED in snow.
219. Make-out point is the garbage hill off of Empress.
222. You have more miles on your snowblower than your car.
223. You plan your outfit in the summer according to how bad the mosquitos are going to be.
226. E-braking and fishtailing become sports during winter.
227. Your ears pop while walking down a snowbank.
229. You will drive halfway across the city just to save 7 cents/litre on gas.2
30. You've asked for vinegar for your fries in another city and got a strange look. mmmmm
231. You know what flavours are at each Sev and will drive past three just to get your favourite.Rootbeer.
233. You're late for a bus...and you run out the door to catch it...your hair is still wet from the shower...AND IT FREEZES as you walk to the bustop outside. I'm talking about ICE.
235. They film a movie downtown and it's the craziest thing to hit winnipeg that whole year. including people lining up begging to be extras.
236. You care when there is a celebrity in our city. I heard all about J-Lo when she was filming a movie there.
237. You will probably go through an average of 30 vehicle extension cords in your lifetime because you keep driving away and forgetting you plugged yourself in. We drug one aroung for a while till some one rolled down their window as we were driving to tell us about it.
238. You wind your extension cords around your rear view mirror, hoping they wont get stolen.
240. You're so surprised when you see a limo that you point it out to all your friends, and try to "guess" who could be inside.
241. You make fun of people from Ontario for their plaid flannel shirts and trucker caps, yet your denim overalls and cowboy hat are totally acceptable.
242. You know its getting warmer in Winnipeg when you can't walk downtown for 2 blocks without getting bugged for money. so true
244. You know your from Winnipeg when your proud that the 3rd largest "city" in Mb is actually also in Winnipeg.1.Winnipeg - 641,4832.Brandon - 41,5113.University of Manitoba - 29,9474.Thompson - 13,446
245. You see some bison, and instantly think of MTS.
246. You stop the cops to give you a ride home cuz minus 25 is too damned cold too walk 10mins, and they give you a ride and remind you that you havent paid for a ticket you received 3 years ago.
248. You roll the window down on the car when it hits a swletering -10 in January.
257. On the first day the powder hits everyone is out carbogganing and the cops pull you over for your tail light being out.
260. You get put on TV and you find out with a phone call saying, "I saw your hat and scarf on TV...way to go."
264.Dollarama is your new favorite store.
266. You know which building is the tallest. The TD one.
269. You dip everything in honey dill sauce.
270. You go to Minnesota or North Dakota and come back with 10 boxes of Krispy Kreme donuts.
273. You wear waterproof mascara only because by the time you walk to school the ice on your eyelashes is so thick that when it melts it looks like someone punched you in the face.
274. 3 words... Heated Bus Shelters.Life savors!!!!!
276. You know winnie the pooh was found and named after Winnipeg.
277. You've been to Spring Hill and when you ski in the mountains you spend half your chair rides explaining that Manitoba has no mountains and that at home you ski on 300 feet of a 16 degree pitch.278. Spring Hill has the worlds shortest quad chair and you're proud of it.
279. You're proud to have a naked man on top of the legislative building, and equally satisfied with the Winnipeg logo that resembles a breast.
280. As you drive over the chief peguis bridge, from Main to Henderson, you always glance to your right and wonder what the heck that bridge is, why it is turned sideways, and why it is still there.
281. You search for Old Dutch chips in vain when you are elsewhere.
284. You balk at the idea of going to Portage Place rather than Polo Park.
286. You keep telling yourself you should eat at the revolving restaurant at least once, even though you heard the food sucks. Ya its not that great of food. But hey the building is moving while you eat.
287. Although you proudly talk about Wpg as the murder capital, you've never actually seen a murder nor heard a gun go off.
291. You've caught yourself wanting to go inside the Occidental Hotel on Main just to see what a sleezy hotel actually looks like. Sad thing is we knew a girl that was living there and we went there to teach her.
298. You've seen someone taking a dump in a bus shack.
299. You are in complete disarray when first experiencing a traffic circle in another city
303. When you know that the three tall buildings in downtown are all banks, that TD's is the tallest, and you've never been in any of them.
312. You remember that it was big news when the golden boy was taken down for repairs (and you probably went with your parents to see him on display).
313. You have never had to sell, or dispose of, an old bicycle because every one you have ever owned has been stolen from you eventually.
1 comment:
I love this, it's so true, all the memories!!! I have not read all of them yet, but I'll come back and finish them next time..
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