You Know You're From South Jersey When...

You don't "go to the beach", you go "down the shore".
In your mind you hear "watch out for the tram car please" even in your sleep.
You've had arguments over cheesesteak quality.
When it snows more than an inch, you call it a blizzard.
You or your friends have Lyme Disease.
You don't understand why there aren't more 24-hour diners elsewhere in the country.
You know what a Wawa is, and know the location of at least 15 of them.
Even though there's a new Wal-Mart in your town, you still go to the Berlin Farmers Market for cheap stuff.
You know that you should get the hell out of Camden before dark.Your car is covered with yellow-green dust in April ann May.
You buy Shop-Rite brand food at Shop-Rite.
You know how to successfully handle a traffic circle.
You think the Olive Garden is a bunch of crap and should not open restaurants in South Jersey.
You played soccer from Kindergarten through high school.

Your middle school hangout was the mall.
You say "water" weird.
Even your school made good Italian subs, but you call them hoagies.
You know that ACME is an actual store, not just a Warner Bros. creation.
You have mandatory recycling. Enforced by law.
You know New Years is all about the Mummers and the Polar Bear club.
You know what custard is in South Jersey.
You always went to the Franklin Institute when you were a kid.
Your middle school hangout was the mall.
You're Italian.

You can't believe MTV went to Seaside Heights.
You never had school on Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur.
You have mandatory recycling. Enforced by law.
In the woods behind your house, you can find couches, washing machines, and shoes.
One time, a sea gull shit all over your head.
You once said, "It smells like Philadelphia in here."
You know that people from the 609 area code are "a little different".
You know it can be -10 degrees and 70 degrees in January in the same year.
There's a fruit and vegetable stand down the road.

You go to another state and sit at a gas station wondering when the people will come out to pump your gas.
You know that no matter how much they put into the Camden waterfront Camden is still Camden.
You have to mail your relocated friends tastykakes.
You think North Jersey is a different state and South Jersey deserves its own secession.

Your high school prom was at the Camden Aquarium or The Mansion in Voorhees.
You know where Olga's Diner is on rt 70.
You are tired of people not believing you're from jersey because you don't have a New York accent.
You know what "jimmies" are and refuse to call them anything else.
Your neighbor is either a painter, a plumber, a builder, or an electrician with a work truck in the driveway.
You take day trips to philly to walk on South Street.
You have had a near or close call experiences hitting a deer with your car.You run around in the nearest patch of woods and play paint ball with your buddies.
You've considered renaming "the Garden State" to "the Hoagie State"
You have a story about the "Hell Hole" ride in Wildwood.
You call the Berlin Farmer's Market the Berlin Auction or the Auction.
You took your report card to Clementon Park for free tickets.
Other people dont know what funnel cake and water ice is because everyone else calls it fried dough and slush.

You have empty Wawa half gallon iced tea bottles all over your car and room.
You've ever driven around aimlessly for hours with your friends saying "So, whatta we doin?"
You haven't been able to find a decent stromboli since moving out of South Jersey.
You lived near a "crick" not a creek.You don't recognize any one at your family reunion.
You never could figure out which was the Black Horse Pike or The White Horse Pike.

You don't think you have an accent.
Half your high school went to Camden County College.
Everything is "twenty minutes away". If you ask how long it takes to get any place in South Jersey, the person always says, "about twenty minutes". To get to a mall, "Oh, about 20 minutes". To get to the airport, "Mmm, about 20 minutes." To get from Runnemede to Philly, "Only about 20 minutes". Try it. Only the shore areas take more than "twenty minutes". They're usually "an hour and twenty minutes."

Thrift shopping with friends is an event.
You went to StoryBook Land as a kid.
Every time someone in Hollywood makes fun of Jersey, you're mad and proud at the same time.
You go to college and describe where you live in reference to how far you are from Cherry Hill.
You come home from college for christmas break and 75% of your HS graduating class is at the same diner you are at 3am.
You don't even care when you leave your door unlocked.
right anymore.You have a super secret place to sled that in better than anywhere else in town!You remember The Garden State Race Track and the day it burnt to the ground and all the tons of ashes that fell for miles.

You can spend the day at the Berlin Auction shopping at the outside flea market
You were amazed Moorsetown was on MTV Cribs.
A member of your family does not have all of their teeth.
You had a birthday party at Xhilarama.
You're astounded when a friend that moves tells you theres not a Wawa nor CVS withen a 10 mile radius of them.

Going to New York is a huge trip but Philly is someplace to go when you're bored.
You think Amish people are amazing.
Your whole school knows when each water ice place opens, and the line goes on forever!
You would drop everything you were doing and run to the voting polls right now if you heard we were voting to make North and South Jersey separate states.
You've been to Wheaton Village.
You know which places were built on indian burial grounds.
You've had a dinner with your friends for less than $3.
You don't know that in every other state, people get their liscenses when they're 16.
Everyone you know has had Confirmation but never goes to church.
You know all of the "back roads" to get everywhere and prefer them to the expressway.
You think a mountain is any landform taller than your house
Trump is mentioned at least daily in your local paper.

You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from south Jersey.