You Might Be Floridian if... (houses, the best, sticker, name)

[JD59]

You Might Be Floridian if...

"Down South" means Key West.

"Panhandling" means going to Pensacola.

You think no one over 70 should be allowed to drive.

Flip-flops are everyday wear.

Shoes are for business meetings and church.

No, wait -- flip-flops are good for church, too, unless it's
Easter or Christmas.

Sweet tea can be served at any meal.

An alligator once walked through your neighborhood.

You smirk when a game show's "Grand Prize" is a trip or
cruise to Florida.

You measure distance in minutes.

You have a drawer full of bathing suits, and one sweatshirt.

You get annoyed at the tourists who feed seagulls.

All the local festivals are named after a fruit.

A mountain is any hill 100 feet above sea level.

You think everyone from a bigger city has a northern accent.

You know the four seasons really are: almost summer, summer,
not summer but really hot, and Christmas.

It's not soda, cola, or pop -- it's coke, regardless of
brand or flavor: "What kinda coke you want?"

Anything under 95 is just warm.

You've hosted a hurricane party.

You go to a theme park for an afternoon and know when to get
on the best rides.

You pass on the right and honk at the elderly.

You understand the futility of exterminating cockroaches.

You can pronounce Okeechobee, Kissimmee, and Withlacoochee.

You understand why it's better to have a friend with a boat
than have a boat yourself.

Bumper stickers on the pickup in front of you include:
various fish, NRA, and a confederate flag.

You were eight years old before you realized they made
houses without pools.

You were 12 when you first met someone who couldn't swim.

You get angry when people say, "Florida isn't really part of
the SOUTH."

You've worn shorts and used the A/C on Christmas.

You know what the "stingray shuffle" is and why it's
important!

You recognize Miami-Dade as "Northern Cuba." The south ends
in the Ocala/Gainesville area, and then North Cuba begins.

[Rcm58]

I hosted a hurricane party in Miami when I lived in an apartment building, they took the doors off the front so the wind would just blow through. We must have had 20 people in an efficiency, even had someone playing guitar.

[Granny Sue]

Don't forget the bumperstickers:
"We love tourists.....they taste like chicken"
"Send more tourists....the gators are hungry"

Or you think the little lizards are cute and have named them.

[MB2]

Originally Posted by captnemo62

Don't forget the bumperstickers:
"We love tourists.....they taste like chicken"
"Send more tourists....the gators are hungry"

Or you think the little lizards are cute and have named them.

OMG......FUNNY!!!!!
Yup...indeed...you can tell if someone is from FL...lol.
I noticed an interesting thing, after moving here.
Pretty much the vast majority of people here WITH a deep dark tan, are the snowbirds and tourists!
Us locals don't want to really get a tan, because we know our extreme sun here, and what it can do (cancer) and what we would look like after a few years....(like a chinese wrinkle dog....lol).
Plus, we have no time, since we are working every day....lol.
AND, we have hurrican survival parties AFTER to storm blasts trough, since there's nothing else to do but drink beer, BBQ since there's no electicity, and hang out in each others yard or driveway, due to the curfews.....LOL.