- You know where, what and when the Hummers Parade is held.

- "Vacation" means going to Rehoboth or Cape "Cantaloupe" Henlopen.

- You know the best subs come from Capriotti's.

- You used to play in the wooder in the crick, and caught fraugs.

- Your school classes were canceled because of 3 snowflakes. Instead, you watch as DelDOT panics over those 3 snowflakes and uses their whole supply of salt.

- You love the beach but hate the tourists.

- You know about punkin-chunkin and you have your favorite chunker.

- You've eaten scrapple sandwiches.

- You can identify all the major types of manure by smell (especially chicken!)

- You measure distance in time and if it takes more than an hour to drive there, you're not going.

- You know what a "slippery" dumpling is.

- You know who YouDee is.

- Somebody in your family has worked for the DuPont Company.

- You think the "Apple Scrapple Festival" is perfectly normal, except for all those granola types running in the 5K race.

- You think, maybe, just maybe, you might get a White Christmas. Then it rains.

- The highest point in the state is a rise on the golf course.

- The state has one hill. You've been sledding on it.

- You remember WAMS and WCAU (BARSKY in the morning!).

- You know NewERK is in New Jersey, but NewARK is in Delaware.

- You know how to carefully pronounce the name Foulk Road.

- You know the story of the duPonts - all of it.

- You talk of Northern Delaware and the entire Eastern Seaboard as "above the canal."

- You know if another Delawarean is from southern, middle or northern Delaware as soon as they open their mouth.

- You know the name of every street in Delaware, but have no idea what the route number is.

- When you want to go out for a nice dinner, you have to switch states.

- You can remember when Maryland Bank (MBNA) swallowed up Ogletown and Putt-Putt.

- Someone in your family has worked for duPont, Astra Zeneca, or MBNA at some point in time.

- Everywhere you go, you always run into someone you know or went to school with.

- You know what Newark Night and First Night are.

- You know exactly which roads to avoid due to the CONSTANT road construction.

- You love Dollie's salt water taffy and Grotto's Pizza. You know where all of the late-night 24-hour rest stops and restaurants are.

- You've heard the joke "Dela-WHERE?" more times than there are people in the state.

- You can remember when Christiana Hospital was a field with cows.

- You remember when Christiana Mall had a Galaxy arcade.

- When you go out of state to shop or eat, you are always surprised about the tax

- You know the differences in housing in Elsmere, Pike Creek, and Greenville.

- You've been asked if Delaware is a province of Canada... by an American.

- You know what Return's Day is and look foward to it every year. But only if you're from Sussex.

- You can't wait for the annual PowWow in Longneck.

- When people come up to you in college and ask to see your license because they just got a fake from Delaware - and it looks just like your real one.

- You've been to the Charcoal Pit and tried to finish the Kitchen Sink.

- You know that it's "UD" - not "U Del"

- You've been asked what state Delaware is in.

- Someone you know was involved in the making of "Dead Poet Society"

- You're proud that they chose Wilmington to blow up at the end of Fight Club - and understand completely why.

- You remember when the Brandywine Regal was Funscape.

- You KNOW to stick to the speed limit in Greenwood a.k.a. the town with the BBQ & speedtrap.

-you know if you want to go to the club you gotta go to philly or jersey

-when someone asks you where delaware is and you qoute waynes world "hi i am in delaware

-you know everything you can get off 4th street

-you know your way around the valley but not in pa.

-when you go to the strip club and dont see nudity:this means you gold club and haks!!!!and we remember fantasia

-you know where devils road is if you havent been there you heard of it

-you know the only thing to do is drink

-you know someone or yourself has ever lived on madison(this is for the newark locals)

-you remember when skidrow was all locals and not college kids

-you know where helen sausage house is

-you know when not to drive down delaware ave./also drunk driveing down delaware ave.......

-you remember cue sticks pool hall

-R.I.P stone balloon (and all those famous bands that played there before they got big: metallica, alice cooper, acdc, ramones, cracker, b-52's, warren zevon, etc...)

-you remeber when you couldnt buy alcohol on sun. and had to go to go to elkton maryland

-you hate how the police look at skateboarders as the worst people in newark but they dont stop the hardcore drugs!

- you hate the "no tolerence policy!!!

-you know or heard of skidfest/chapelfest/wilberfest!!!!! thankgod for ud!