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Sunday, February 25, 2007

You Know You're From Cleveland...

(Hat tip: KollelMama)

Oh, this is so true. I mean, these often are okay, but some of these are great. My faves:
4. You hate country music, don't know anyone who likes country music, and yet...WGAR won music station of the year. [Ez: So I don't hate it anymore, but when I was in Cleveland, this was so true.]
6. You take credit for Cedar Point even though it's over an hour away. [Ez: #1 in the world, baby!]
7. You honestly believe that Cleveland is the best city in the world. [Ez: Err... in some ways, maybe.]
8. You take Dead Man's Curve at 60 mph....holding your breath.
12. You actually know how to pronounce Cuyahoga.
16. You're still dumbfounded by the leaping fountain in Tower City.
17. You've never ridden in a taxi.
18. You wear shorts the first day of the year it isn't below zero and snowing...just because you can. [Ez: HA!!]
19. You have no idea how exactly to get to the Flats, you just kind of end up on a bank and start partying.
20. You really don't know what the Warehouse District is, you just know that it's a great place to party.
21. You know who the Jake really is.
22. You hate Baltimore and you have never even been there. [Ez: Okay, so I actually like Balto, but there is a sense of hate as well. :) ]
24. You're still relishing 1987 when the Browns ALMOST made it to the Super Bowl. [Ez: &^%$#!!!]
25. You counted down with the monument in Tower City to the exact second in 1999 when the Browns came back. [Ez: I had a countdown in my notebook for Gemara, headed up each day.]
27. You know Tower City isn't a city at all.
30. At least half of your wardrobe is Tribe apparel.
31. You know all 4 seasons: winter, still winter, almost winter and road construction.

27 comments:

  1. :-) i like the last one. so true!

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  2. 25 or so years ago Cleveland had a rock station that was considered the best rock station in the country by Rolling Stone.

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  3. How about
    1. You really know what that chinese restaurant was sellling.
    2. You don't understand how a certain jewish supermarket has been able to hold a whole city hostage for so long.
    3. You have been to Empire and you and everyone you know has said you would never go back, yet it is still in business.
    4. You know exaclty how many excrutiating miles there are in Pennsylvania on interstate 80
    5. You have stopped in Milesburg, beacause that is what everyone does
    6. You have had a barbeque on I-80

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  4. the only reason to hate baltimore is because you realize its a tiny drop better than clevland is!!! number one reason is because stores in baltimore are open till 830 instead of 8.

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  5. Since Stacey has retired I'll post her link.


    http://pesharachel.blogspot.com/2004/08/you-know-youre-from-cleveland-when-you.html

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  6. rescue, those are pretty good :) made me laugh!

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  7. #1. if you put on khaki pants, you are considerd a crack head
    #2. skokie yeshiva is for bums and/or
    drug users
    #3. you can buy a five bedroom house for $300,000.
    #4. the traffic lights are blinking yellow at 8 p.m.
    #5. You know the browns, indians and cavs will never win a championship
    #6. there is more gossup in cleveland than there is in brooklyn yet nobody there will admit it.

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  8. -->#2. skokie yeshiva is for bums and/or
    drug users

    I have three words for you:

    ME-SIV-TA

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  9. ->25 or so years ago Cleveland had a rock station that was considered the best rock station in the country by Rolling Stone.

    Alan Freed, the "Moondog Show".

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  10. EK - That's what my Dad always says...

    SD - Probably 100.7 WMMS. They've done that a couple of times.

    DGEsq - No doubt.

    Rescue - What's the Cleveland connection!?

    1) Oooo...! Hey, we had eaten there that very week when it came out. Not fun.

    2) Heh.
    3) Seriously! I have NEVER gotten that.
    4) 309. (The objective - to do it in 4 hours or less. Check!)
    5) Or Danville...

    C! - LOL

    Jack - Thanks!

    Shoshana - I almost wrote "for Shoshana" on that one... :P

    DGEsq - 2) ...and WITS is a "country club"
    3) or less.
    5) No no no. They're all going to win next year. Every year.
    6) Heh. SO true.

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  11. I have three words for you:

    ME-SIV-TA


    LOL!

    In Cleveland Heights: You're not frum if you don't wear a black hat.

    In Beachwood: Hey, don't touch my lawn!

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  12. Pre...tty pathetic. Though, #8 is funny.

    But everyone knows the LA is #1.

    westsiiiiiiiiiide


    Fool.

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  13. uncle in the heights with his gajillion kids (scarry I'm a CPA and can't count that high). Also, grandparents retired there to be with the gajillion kids about 15 years ago. Between visiting and all the bar mitzvahs, weddings etc. have suffered the torture of I-80 (with 3 kids in the back)up to a few times a year. (I also ate at the restaurant not to long before the secret recipe came out)(How about doing the whole trip in 5:30 hours? My brother drove and I flew after 9/11, he drove me to Hopkins and picked me up at Newark, and there were no delays)

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  14. HH,

    The land of the burning river has little to cheer for. When the sun comes out they cry because they fear that they have angered the almighty.

    It is a dreary land that many say they are from but few move to. ;)

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  15. Rescue - 5:30?! Oh - only to Newark... I think I could pull that. I did 6:45 to/from Queens. But Hopkins dropoff to Newark pickup? THAT is cool. :P

    I wonder if I know your family... gajillion kids usually = Cleveland Heights. :)

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  16. Jack - :P Lots of young Orthodox people are moving there now...!

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  17. Ezzie,

    Poor saps. No wonder the shluchim are in my neighborhood.

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  18. where's dead man's curve? I've lived here almost 2 years already and don't know what you're talking about.

    ok, what about.....

    1) you've seen 5 different waitresses at a certain restaurant get hired and fired, and you've witnessed fights between employees during your dinner

    2) you bring back bagels every time you go to Chicago

    3) you only paid $180 to the mohel for your son's bris and setting up the meal was only $300

    4) your shul dues are only $335

    5) you run into everyone you know everytime you take your kids to the pediatrician's office (Dr Senders office of course)

    6) Everyone admits that Contempo is the greatest place to eat but everyone is too cheap to actually eat there (they know us there, since we're from LA, and we're eat-out-ers-- people are amazed we eat there).

    7) You've seen a Subway wrapper on the floor at an Orthodox synagogue.

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  19. ps-- I LOVE country and listen to WGAR EVERY SINGLE DAY! No kidding.

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  20. The Mary Kay Gal - Dead Man's Curve!? It's like the only thing they announce when they do the traffic...!

    1) ...or service for a meal is an hour and a half, but the food is STILL really good so you'll go once in a while anyway.

    2) Well, the bagel place was still there when I was... and Baltimore has better! :)

    3,4) So true!

    5) :P That's who *I* went to when I last went to the doctor... and I was 20!

    6) MMMM... ContEMPO... plus, they give you enough food to last you a week. And trust me, I can eat.

    7) Heh!

    Country is starting to rock, but WGAR used to be so honky-tonk...

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  21. What happened to 1-3?

    W...M...M...S! (secular H.S. flashback!)

    7) You've seen a Subway wrapper on the floor at an Orthodox synagogue.

    LOL!!

    Hey, we've stayed at the Pine Barn Inn in Danville several times, right next to Geisinger Medical Center. It's exactly between where we live now and where we visit family in Mass. :)

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  22. eh, I never listen to the traffic report. Remember, after 9 years in LA, no amount of Cleveland traffic fazes me. So what if I can't get somewhere within 5 minutes. Maybe it will take me 10 then. boo hoo. In LA, I routinely drove an hour and a half to weekly meetings. I used to get out of my car on the freeway after parking it to stretch my legs.

    Guess where I'm taking my kids today? Dr. Senders office. tee hee! And then maybe we'll hit Subway!

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  23. oh I thought of another one. It happened a few times over purim since now that I'm a mommy I had to go to megillah readings at private homes because the shul ones were hard to make because of timing.

    People who ask "who are you?" but then don't introduce themselves since they figure EVERYONE knows them! Plus, they assume you're new in town when you've been here 2 years already just because they haven't yet met you. :)

    I love answering. "I'm Heather. Who are YOU? :)"

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  24. Chana - DANville! DANville! :)

    TMKG - So true on the traffic...! And LOL.

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  25. dgesq- You should shut up because the cavs are amazing!!!!!!!!!

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