# You ever bragged about your driving time to Toronto.
# You ever crossed the border just to:
* buy beer at Brewers Retail, because you think it has more alcohol than what's sold in the US
* buy cheese
* buy fireworks
* eat at a Chinese restaurant
* attend the "Canadian Ballet"
* buy gasoline (in the early 1980s)
* buy clogs (in the late 1970s)
# You still call most businesses and institutions by names that they were known twenty or more years ago, for instance:
* Bon-Ton "AM&A's"
* Ralph Wilson Stadium "Rich Stadium"
* Dunn Tire Park "North Americare Park" or "Pilot Field"
* Kauffman's "Hengerer's"
* Quality Markets "Bells," or worse, "Loblaws"
* Buffalo State College "State Teacher's"
* Daemen College "Rosary Hill"
* Medaille College "St. Joe's Teacher's College"
* Adelphia Cable "Courier Cable" or "International Cable"
* Super Flea "GEX"
# Half of your friends moved to Charlotte, North Carolina and the rest went to Raleigh.
# You call an apartment a "flat".
# You have a favorite Greek "family" restaurant.
# Your mother still has an old metal "charge plate" in her purse.
# You see apartments listed in the Buffalo News classifieds by church parish and you know where all of them are.
# You use the word "the" before the numbers of expressways, like "the 290," "the 90," "the 400" and so on.
# Half the change in your pocket is Canadian.
# You save Canadian change to use at toll booths and parking meters.
# You've held a "waveathon" at four way stop intersections ("No, you go...")
# When someone speaks of a "family restaurant," you think of names like "The Olympus," "The Acropolis," and "The Agean," not Denny's.
# You can tell what part of town someone is from their accent. Especially dat der Chickatavaga town der, an' de freggin' Wesside.
# You ever feasted on these treats:
* real chicken wings (not "Buffalo wings")
* real beef on weck -- and you call it "beef on wick"
* real pizza, with no crust, cut lengthwise into strips
* real horseradish
* charcoal broiled hot dogs
* Niagara Street clams
* pierogies, golabkis, kapustas and kielbasa
* placek
* Weber's mustard
* Texas hots
* St Joseph's Day bread
* twice baked double cheese potatoes
# ... and washed it down with:
* Genesee Cream Ale, in a 16 ounce bottle ('da pounder)
* loganberry juice
* Vernor's
* Old Vienna
* Visniak or Black Rock pop
# You slam on the brakes and slow to a crawl whenever you see the "Village of Kenmore" sign.
# You compare ice scrapers with your buddies.
# You watch Canadian television, just so you can see United States network shows a day or two earlier than they would appear in the States.
# You make only $25,000 a year, but can still afford a nice single family house in the suburbs.
# You break out the shades and shorts when the temperature goes higher than 50 for the first time of the year.
# You can actually taste the difference between Molson, Labatts and Old Vienna.
# Your idea of a seven-course meal is a six pack of Genny Cream Ale and a bucket of wings.
# Your pockets are filled with old Metro Rail tickets.
# You flinch when you hear the words "wide right!"
# You think of a high school, not a cartoon, when you hear references to "South Park."
much much more:
http://www.bufftony.com/buffalo/frombuffalo.htmlSomeone had a lot of time.