DATE: 08/03/2007 14:51:57 / MOOD: happy
1) A night on the town would include cruising the McDonald’s to the Dock loop.2) You used to try to jump the tracks on Elliot Street in your mom’s sedan.
3) You became a crossing guard in grade school just to go to Boblo at the end of the year.
4) You went to the Jade Gardens to drink under age not for the food.
5) You had to run out the back door of Jade Gardens because the cops were busting the place for serving minors.
6) You have attended an Italian, Lebanese or Portuguese wedding.
7)You ever bought a pack of smokes for your mom.
8) You’ve been hung over on the boat coming back from Pelee Island.
9) You went to Spencer’s.
10) You hurt yourself in some way tobogganing at Seacliff Park.
11) You know which part of Seacliff beach you can drink on.
12) You’ve drank cheap American beer on some one’s boat on a Sunday afternoon.
13) The place where you learned to swim and the place you learned to play hockey has been flattened.
14) Your parents took you to the caboose for your birthday.
15) You remember when there weren’t any Tim Horton’s, Burger King, or Wendy’s in town.
16) You walked to McDonalds on your spare for fries.
17) In high school you had lunch in the KFC parking lot.
18) You skipped class and shot pool at Jim’s
19) You still laugh when you see the horse statue on Danforth and remember when it’s genitals were painted day-glow orange.
20) You’ve been to Burgesses for ice cream and a footlong.
21) You knew to find out where the party was all you had to do was cruise the dock once.
22) You hid your beer from the cops while drinking in the parking lot at the dock.
23) You’ve seen the Hitmen play at the Seacliff.
24) You’ve seen the Hitmen play at the VI.
25) You’ve seen the Hitmen play at someone’s house.
26) You have a toque with a Johnston Beavers patch on it.
27) You played video games at Vegas and the Fun Factory, even though your mom said only druggies hang out there.
28) You saw Star Wars at the Vogue.
29) You know that Roller Alley was the place to be.
30) You have done some kind of farm labour or greenhouse work.
31) You’ve ridden to the “tip” and back.
32) The smell of tomato wagons in August has turned you off of tomatoes for years.
33) You didn’t know how warm 22 degrees Celsius was until you moved north of Tilbury and listened to Canadian radio.
34) You know Wheatley boys.
35) You know the Seacliff shuffle.
36) You got your first suit from Feldman’s.
37) You secretly wanted a Flyers jacket just to get chicks.
38) You’ve skipped class to play hockey at the Point.
39) You took Geography just to go to Quebec skiing.
40) You went to concerts in Detroit and had at least 5 concert shirts in rotation at a time.
41) You’ve hung out in the “Big V” parking lot to watch traffic.
42) You know the police at the ride programs.
43) You remember back in the day when Chili Peppers was O’Tooles.
44) You’ve climbed over the fence, behind the port-a-potties to skip the line at Tomato Fest and Grape Fest.
45) Trolling Ouelette has nothing to do with fishing.
46) You’ve off-roaded at night in the pits in someone’s truck.
47)You’ve gotten drunk off your friend’s dad’s home-made wine.
48) You know people with greenhouses.
49) You know who said “go to jog”.
50) You’ve driven home on the by-pass when you would have probably blown over.
51) On prom night you and your friends rented a room at the Pelee Motor Inn and invited 50 people.
52) Your mom bought you clothes at the Bi-Way and Woolworths.
53) You went to high school dances before there were Complex dances.
54) When someone said the “high school”, you didn’t have to say”Which one?”.
55) You remember when Erie Street was two lanes all the way to the dock.
56) You had Sonny vacuum underneath your feet at 2:30 in the morning.
I had gotten this email a while ago and lost it, so I really happy this morning when I saw that John Pilmer had sent it to me!
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