YOU KNOW YOU LIVE IN CLEVELAND IF...

You don't really know any homosexuals, you just know that there
 are a lot of them in Lakewood.


You know you don't really have an accent, the rest of the world does.

You hear there are always famous people in town, but you have 
never seen one.  

You hate country music, don't know anyone that does like country 
music,  and yet WGAR just won the country music station of the 
year.  

You find it hard to believe that someone as cool as Tom Hanks 
made his start here.  But you'd brag about it.  

You take credit for Cedar Point even though it is 2 hours away.  

The Tri-C jingle "students for life" scares the hell out of you.  

You take Dead Man's Curve at 60 mph holding your breath.

Your neighborhood schools went without sports because all the 
senior citizens refused to pass the levies.  


You actually know how to pronounce Cuyahoga.

You can't tell Brook Park, Brooklyn, or Old Brooklyn apart.

You see Christmas lights still up in July.

You love BW-3, but have no clue what the heck weck is.

You find yourself singing "Garfield 1-2323" in the shower.


You're still dumbfounded by the Leaping Fountain in Tower City.


You have never ridden in a taxi.


You wear shorts the first day of the year it isn't below 30 and 

snowing, just because you can.  


You have gotten 3 speeding tickets, and they are all from the mile 
long stretch of a suburb named Linndale.  

You have no idea how exactly to get to the Flats, you just end up on a 
bank and start partying.

You know who the Jake really is.


You hate Baltimore and you have never been there.


St. Patty's Day is your number one holiday, and you aren't Irish.


You're still relishing 1987 when we ALMOST made it to the Superbowl.


You are counting down with the monument in Tower City to the
 exact second in 1999 when the Browns come back.


You heard Bill Clinton and Drew Carey love Parma Pierogies, but 
you have yet to ever eat there.

You know Tower City isn't a city at all.

You're Polish.


At least half of your wardrobe is Tribe apparel.