You know you're from Indiana when . . . .

YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM INDIANA WHEN:

• You think the state Bird is Larry.


• You can say 'French Lick' without laughing out loud.


• There's actually a college near you named “Ball State.'


• You know Batesville is the casket-making capital of the world and you're proud of it.


• Your feelings get hurt whenever someone points out the acronym for Purdue University is PU.


• You know several people who have hit a deer.


• Down south to you means Kentucky.


• You have no problem spelling or pronouncing Terre Haute.


• Your school classes were canceled because of cold.


• Your school classes were canceled because of heat.


• You know what the phrase 'knee-high by the Fourth of July' means.


• You've heard of Euchre, you know how to play Euchre, and you are a master of Euchre.


• You've seen a running car, with nobody in it, in the parking lot of the grocery store, no matter what time of year it is.


• Detassling was your first job.


• Bailing hay, your second.


• Or you could stack hay, swim in the pond to clean off and then have the strength to play a couple of games of hoops, all in the same barn lot on the same day.


• You say things like catty-wampus and katty corner and know what they mean.


• You install security lights on your house and garage, and then leave them both unlocked.


• You carry jumper cables in your car regularly.


• You drink pop.


• You catch frogs at the crick.


• If you want someone to hear you, you holler at 'em.


• You know that baling wire was the predecessor to duct tape.


• You know that strangers are the only ones who come to your front door.


• Kids and dogs ride in the passenger seats of cars and the backs of pickups.


• You think nothing of driving on the roads and being stuck behind a farm implement in spring and fall. You just hope it's not a hog truck or a manure spreader.


• High school basketball games draw bigger crowds on the weekend than movie theaters, IF you have a movie theater.


• Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.


• The local paper covers national and international headlines on one page but requires six for local sports.


• You can repeat the scores of the last eight NBA games, but unless the MVP is a Hoosier, you are not sure who he is.


• You can see at least two basketball hoops from your yard.


• You can name every one of Bobby Knight's exploits over the last few years.


• The biggest question of your youth was IU or Purdue?


• Indianapolis is the BIG CITY.


• Getting stuck by a train is a legitimate excuse for being late to school or work.


• Everyone knows who the town cops are, where they live, and whether they're at home or on duty.


• You've been to the Covered Bridge Festival. And, you took back roads to get there. Why sit in traffic?


• To you, tenderloin is not an expensive cut of beef, but a big, salty, breaded and fried piece of pork served on a bun with pickle and onion. (John makes the best!)