You Know You're from Louisiana When...

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

- You reinforce you attic to store Mardi Gras beads.

- You don't look twice when you see pink flamingos in yards of nice subdivisions during Mardi Gras.

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

- Your ancestors are buried ABOVE the ground.

- You drink Community Coffee, have tried Starbucks, but don't see what all the fuss is about.

- You take a bite of Five-Alarm Chili and reach for the Tobasco.

- Every once in a while, you have waterfront property.

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

- You don't learn until high school that Mardi Gras is not a National Holiday.

- You push little old ladies out of the way to catch Mardi Gras beads.

- Little old ladies PUSH YOU out of the way to catch Mardi Gras beads.

- You believe that PURPLE, GREEN, and GOLD look good together.

- 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.

- Your town is LOW on the education chart, high on the obesity chart, and you DON'T care because you're NO. 1 on the PARTY CHART.

- Your house payment is less than your utility bill.

- You know that Tchoupitoulas is a STREET not a DISEASE.

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

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

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

- You have to reset your clocks after every thunderstorm.

- You're walking in the French Quarter with a plastic cup of BEER.

- When it starts to rain, you cover your BEER instead of your head.

- You've eaten at one or more of these restaurants, AND know how to pronounce them: Prejeans, Tu Jac's, Gallatoire's, Ralph & Kacoo's, or Mulatte's.

- You have crawfish mounds in your front yard.

- You give directions and use words like "uptown," "downtown," "backatown," "riverside," "lakeside," "other side of the bayou" or "other side of the levee."

- 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 don't worry when you see ships riding higher in the river than the top of your house.

- You judge a po-boy by the number of napkins used.

- The four seasons in your year are: crawfish, shrimp, crab, and King Cake.

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

- You cringe when people pronounce the largest city in the state as "Nawlins," because only TOURISTS call it that!

- You know those big roaches can fly, but you're able to sleep at night anyway.

- You assume everyone has mosquito swarms in their backyard.

- You realize the rainforest is less humid than Louisiana.

- You discover that you can get a sunburn through your car window.

- When out of town, you stop and ask someone where there is a drive-through Daiquiri place, and they look at you like you have three heads.

- You call tomato sauce "red gravy."

- You fall asleep to the soothing sounds of four box fans.

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

- You get on a bus marked "Cemeteries" and dont think twice.

- Your first sentence was "Throw me something mistah" and your first drink was from a go-cup.

- You have a parade ladder in your shed.

- You shake out your shoes before putting them on. 

- You eat sno-balls instead of throwing them.

- You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Louisiana.

- You meet someone for the first time they tell you their entire family tree, and somehow you are related to their family.

And heres some more cause they're funny

. You've ever wore shorts at Christmas time.

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

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

4. You know the meaning of a "Delcambre Reeboks" (that would be a pair of white fishing boots)

5. You offer somebody a "coke" and then ask them what kind: Coca-Cola,Dr. Pepper, Pepsi, 7Up?

6. You can name all of your 3rd cousins

7. You plan your wedding around hunting season & LSU football

8. You greet people with "Ha's ya momma'an'dem?" and hear back "Deyfine!"

9. Every so often, you have waterfront property.

10. When giving directions you use words like "uptown", "downtown", "backatown", "riverside", "lakeside", "northshore", "westbank","down the bayou" or "across the river"

11. 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"!

12. Your burial plot is six feet over rather than six feet under.

13. You've ever had Community Coffee.

14. You can pronounce Tchoupitoulas but can't spell it. (also, Thibodeaux, Opelousas, Pontchartrain, Ouachita, Atchafalaya,)

15. You don't worry when you see ships riding higher in the river than the top of your house.

16. You judge a po-boy by the number of napkins used. (Amen) You Got datrite

17. The waitress at your local sandwich shop tells you a fried oyster po-boy "dressed" is healthier than a Caesar salad.

18. You know the definition of "dressed".

19. You can eat Popeye's, Haydel's and Zapp's for lunch and wash it down with Barq's and several Abitas, without losing it all on your stoop.

20. The smell of a crawfish boil turns you on more than HBO.

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

22. You're not afraid when someone wants to "ax you something".

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

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

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

26. You believe that purple, green and gold look good together (and you will even eat things those colors).

27. You go to buy a new winter coat (what most people refer to as windbreakers)

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

29. You know what a nutria rat is but you still pick it to represent your baseball team. (Geaux Zephyrs)

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

31. You have spent a summer afternoon on the Lake Pontchartrain seawall catching blue crabs.

32. You describe a color as "K&B Purple".

33. You like your rice and politics dirty.

34. When given the choice for Governor between a KKK leader and Edwin Edwards it's a difficult decision.

35. You pronounce the largest city in the state as "Newawlins".

36. You know those big roaches can fly, but you're able to sleep at night anyway.

37. You prefer skiing on the bayou.

38. You assume everyone has mosquito swarms in their backyard.

39. You realize the rainforest is less humid than Louisiana.

40. You can list all the ingredients of a gumbo or a jambalaya

41. You go to the "boat", but you don't plan on spending any time overwater

42. When you're in Baton Rouge you know the difference between the old bridge the new bridge

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

44. If you pull for the Saints (who else would?)

45. If you've ever been to a wedding and someone either danced in a washtub or with a broom and this was considered normal

46. You "make your groceries" or "save your dishes" or have an "icebox"

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

48. You know when it's appropriate to use "Tony Chachere's"

49. You know an old person that can "treat" you for warts

50. The four seasons in your year are: crawfish, shrimp, crab and KingCake.