*Your "International" airport has only one passenger flight that actually leaves the 48 contiguous U.S. states.
*The in-state sports rivalry is paid more attention to than the national championship.
*You live in an area that occasionally gets considerable snowfalls, floods, and tornadoes... but has no real capacity to deal with any of the above.
*You pronounce the name of your city different than anyone else you've heard.
*You think the rest of the people in Kentucky sound like hicks.
*When you think "Kentucky" you don't automatically think horse racing or fried chicken.
*You
ask your doctor for an allergy cure and he tells you to move.
*You've shovelled 10+ inches of snow and worn shorts in the same week.
*When people ask what school you went to, they don't mean Vanderbilt, Yale, or Harvard; they mean Ballard, Male, Manual, Trinity, St. X., Assumption, Sacred Heart...
*You know what
the Bambi Walk is.
*You say let them have their Starbucks; you've got Highland Coffee.
*Your last ten vacations were in Panama City or Destin.
*You make an emergency run to Kroger for bread and milk at the first sighting of a snowflake.
*You've lived here for years and know the place like the back of your hand, yet somehow you get hopelessly lost each time you attempt a shortcut through Cherokee Park.
*You hold up traffic to let a motorist you don't know into your lane.
*You give directions based on landmarks that no longer exist or street names that have changed, but your directions never confuse any of the other Louisvillians.
*You have never been to the Derby, but wouldn't miss
the Oaks.
*You think all the REAL hicks live in
New Albany.
*You think the only thing Southern Indiana is good for is buying pumpkins.
*When introduced to another life-long
Louisvillian, you spend the first part of the conversation finding out how you are connected. It's never as many as
six degrees of separation - usually two or three will do it.
*You think a pervert is someone who would rather have sex than watch basketball.
*You can read about
Rick Pitino in at least three different sections of your newspaper, and you either love or hate this fact with a passion.
*You think the rest of the world knows what
Benedictine spread is.
*You think the rest of the world knows what a
Hot Brown is.
*You want another bridge built over the Ohio River, just so long as
it doesn't cut through YOUR neighborhood.
*Whenever an out-of-towner makes a comment about Louisville being small, you immediately jump on them with, "It's the 16th biggest city in the country!"
