Top 10 Signs That You Have been Living in Ithaca for Too Long

 

  1. You do your weekly shopping at GreenStar

  2. Your favorite web site is the Cornell's weather page

  3. You no longer apologize in front of your guests about the weirdos in the Commons. In fact, you do not think there are any weirdos in the Common’s

  4. Your wardrobe is packed with cloths from the Angel Heart Designs annual sale

  5. You tried all the different dance clubs and decided that contra-dancing is your favorite

  6. You turn off the heating on June 1st and are happy that summer started early this year

  7. You actually have an opinion in favor or against Wal-Mart

  8. When it does not stop drizzling for two weeks you keep telling everyone that "we really need this rain"

  9. You think that one lane bridges are the way to go

  10. You consider jumping down the gorge

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  11. You follow the local high-schools sports

  12. You hiked the Taughannock gorge 9,762 times, and you can even pronounce it correctly

  13. You are on the mailing lists of all the local bands

  14. You know by hart the weather statistics for any given day in the last 10 years

  15. Your favorite topic of discussion is comparing this winter's snow to last winter's snow

  16. You pile up plastic containers #5 and #6 in case one day they will start recycling them

  17. You cook by the Mooswood cookbooks

  18. You know by hart all the historical stories behind each one of the sandwiches at Simeon's

  19. You tried all different Sandwiches at CTB with all different kinds of bagels

  20. You call a day with 12 minutes sunshine a partly sunny day

 

 

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