You Know You're From Yellow Springs If......

1. You know what it means to be a herb.
2. You think that Dino's is better than Starbucks or anything else.
3. You have seen Antioch students tanning nude on campus.
4. Pedestrians ALWAYS have the right of way.
5. You think sidewalks are silly - you walk down the middle of the road.
6. You remember the Bubble Man.
7. You can easily pick out the tourists by their tie-dyed tee shirts and find it funny that they even try to blend in.
8. You're always a little surprised (and more than a little excited) when people from other parts of the country recognize Yellow Springs by name.
8. You watch the fireworks from Gaunt Park Hill.
9. You've often wondered what percentage of people you would be able to name were the entire population of Yellow Springs to form a line-up.
10. You're used to the sound of the F-16 jets flying over from Wright Patt.
11. You recognize non-Yellow Springers by the way they emphasize the "Yell" in Yellow Springs instead of the "Springs."
12. You don't really need a car because you have a bike and two legs.
13. You will always call Tom's "Weaver's."
14. Your bike has been stolen at least once.
15. You think it's bizarre that people in other parts of the world actually bother to lock their doors.
16. You can't imagine why anyone would want to live in Xenia.
17. If you went to Mills Lawn, then you hold secret sterotypes about Antioch School kids; if you went to The Antioch School, you hold secret stereotypes about Mills Lawn kids.
18. You're accepting of everyone - except Republicans.
19. You know Niki Dakota and Vick Mickunas by their voices.
20. You are surprised if there aren't 10 or 20 protestors at the Limestone/ Xenia Ave. traffic light on a Saturday morning.
21. Your face has been on the cover of the YS News at least once.
22. You still paint your face with rocks from the Yellow Spring AND go sledding at Gaunt Park and you probably always will.
23. You've trick-or-treated at the Erickson's house.
24. You and possibly one of your parents was taught by Curds.
25. You sometimes have to drop Dave Chappelle's name in order to get people to pay attention to you when you describe where you live.
26. You arrive everywhere on "Yellow Springs Time."
27. If someone says " New Year's Eve Ball Drop," you picture a broken disco ball wrapped up in leftover Christmas lights that may, or may not, fall at midnight.
28. You couldn't drive over 25 MPH in town if you wanted to because the stop signs are so freaking close together.
29. At least one police officer knows your name, your parents' names, where you live, and, if your dog is adventurous, his or her name also.
30. You or someone you knew broke their arm falling off the eagle's perch.
31. The Corner Cone, or whatever they decide to call it, will always be the Tastee Freeze.
32. You were warned as a child to stay away from IGA Land on Halloween.
33. You think that the police report is the most comical part of the YS News.
34. The second Saturdays in June and October are days when you wish that "Tourist Season" was more akin to "Deer Season."
35. After your parents divorced, one of them came out of the closet.
36. You used to prank-call Herbert Lemaster.
37. You hid Mrs. McCurdy's phone. When she asked you about it, you smiled and told her you liked her overalls.
38. You measure distances in yards.
39. Litotes are part of your regular speak. I.e., "I'm not mad at it" really means "I like it."40. You know what a skillet is, and it's not a piece of cookware.
41. Antioch students will always seem older than you, even if you're old enough to be their professor.
42. You still aren't exactly clear on what SPRAWL is, but whatever it is, you're pretty sure you're against it.
43. You can still remember the first time you successfully climbed the giant pebble.
44. You "played" Perry League tee ball. You ran to fence and back to warm up and then spent the rest of the game building dirt mounds on third base until it was your turn to bat.
45. You don't expect stores to open untill 10:00am. Well, make that 10:15am. . .
46. You walked in the "We Live Here!" parade.
47. You remember the controversy over the removal of a dead tree from in front of the Trail Tavern.
48. You were thouroughly inconvenienced by the construction on Dayton St., and refused to use the detour.
49. You have been, on multiple occasions, very perplexed by the fragmentation of President St.


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