• You’ve never referred to Philadelphia as anything but “Philly” and New Jersey has always been “Jersey”.
• You refer to Pennsylvania as “PA” (pronounced Pee-ay). How many other states do that?
• “You guys” is a perfectly acceptable reference to a group of men and women.
• You know how to respond to the question “Djeetyet?” (Didyoueatyet?)
• You learned to pronounce Bryn Mawr, Wilkes-Barre , Schuylkill , the Pocono’s, Tamaqua, Tunkannock, Bala Cynwyd, Duquesne and Monongahela.
• And we know Lancaster is pronounced Lank aster, not Lan kaster.
• You know what a “Mummer” is, and are disappointed if you can’t catch at least highlights of the parade.
• You know what ” Punxsutawney Phil” is, and what it means if he sees his shadow.
• The first day of buck and the first day of doe season are school holidays.
• You know how to get ‘rid’ of things and how to read up.
• You can use the phrase “fire hall wedding reception” and not even bat an eye.
• You can’t go to a wedding without hearing the “Chicken Dance,” at least one polka and either an Italian song (sung in Italian,) or “Hava Nagila.”
• At least five people on your block have electric “candles” in all or most their windows all year long.
• You know what a “Hex sign” is.
• You know what a “State Store” is, and your out-of-state friends find it incredulous that you can’t purchase liquor at the mini-mart.
• You own only 4 condiments: salt, pepper, mustard and ketchup.
• Words like “hoagie,” “crick,” “chipped ham,” “dippy eggs”, “sticky buns,” “shoo-fly pie,” “lemon sponge pie”, “pierogies” and “pocketbook” actually mean something to you.
• You can eat cold pizza (even for breakfast) and know others who do the same.
• You not only have heard of Birch Beer, but you know it comes in several colors: Red, White, Brown, Gold.
• You know several places to purchase or that serve Scrapple, Summer Sausage and Hot Bacon Dressing.
• You can eat a cold soft pretzel from a street vendor without fear and enjoy it. It almost always comes with mustard.
• You know the difference between a cheese steak and a pizza steak sandwich, and know that you can’t get a
  really good one outside PA, except Atlantic City on the boardwalk.
• You live for summer, when street and county fairs signal the beginning of funnel cake season. Customers ask the waitress for “dippy eggs” for breakfast.
• You know that Blue Ball, Intercourse, Paradise, Climax, Bird-in-Hand, Beaver, Moon, Virginville, Mars, and Slippery Rock are PA towns. (and the first three were consecutive stops on the Reading RR)
• You know what a township, borough, and commonwealth is.
• You can identify drivers from New York , New Jersey , Maryland or other neighboring states by their unique and irritating driving habits.
• A traffic jam is 10 cars waiting to pass a horse-drawn carriage on the highway in Lancaster County .
• You know several people who have hit deer more than once.
• You carry jumper cables in your car and your female passengers know how to use them. You still keep kitty litter, starting fluid, de-icer, or a snowbrush in your trunk, even if you now live in the south.
• Driving is always better in winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
• As a kid you built snow forts and leaf piles that were taller than you were.
• Your graduating class consisted of mostly Polish, German, and Italian names.
• You know beer doesn’t grow in a garden but you know where to find a beer garden.
• You also know someone who lives “down the lane”.

This one’s for you Jeremy…

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