You KNOW you're from "Louisville" when...

• You're still bitching that Dillards took over Bacon's.
  You still refer to Bashford Manor Mall and it has been gone for 7 Years.
• Your "International" airport has only one passenger flight that actually leaves the 48 contiguous U.S. States and is also the size of an average mall.
• The in-state sports rivalry is paid more attention to than the national championship.
• You live in an area that occasionally gets considerable snowfalls, floods, and tornadoes... But has no capacity to deal with any of the above.
• You pronounce the name of your city different than anyone else you've heard.

• You think the rest of the people in Kentucky sound like hicks.
  When you think " Kentucky ' you don't automatically think horse racing or fried chicken.
• You ask your doctor for an allergy cure and he tells you to "move"
• You've shoveled 10 plus inches of snow and worn shorts in the same week.
• When people ask what school you went to, they don't mea n Vanderbilt, Yale, or Harvard; they mean Ballard, Male, Manual, Trinity or St. X.
• You know what the Bambi Walk is.
• Your last ten vacations were in Panama City or Destin.
• You make an emergency run to Kroger for bread and milk at the first sighting of a snowflake.
• You've lived here for years, yet somehow you get hopelessly lost each time you attempt a shortcut through Cherokee Park .
• You're convinced turn signals are useless options on a vehicle.
• You've built a shrine to Rick Pitino in your basement.
• You hold up traffic to let a motorist you don't know into your lane.
• You give directions based on landmarks that no longer exist or street names that have changed, but your directions never confuse any of the other Louisvillians
• You have never been to the Derby , but wouldn't miss the Oaks.
• You call in sick to attend the Oaks and spot your boss - who also called in sick - at the next betting window.
• You think all the REAL hicks live in New Albany IN.
• When introduced to another life-long Louisvillian, you spend the first part of the conversation finding out how you are connected. It's never as many as six degrees of separation - usually three will do it.
• You think a pervert is someone who would rather have sex than watch basketball.
• You can read about Rick Pitino in at least three different sections of your newspaper.
• You think the rest of the world knows what Benedictine spread is.
• You think the rest of the world knows what a Hot Brown is.
• You have never eaten fish that wasn't fried.
• You think the whole world puts spaghetti in chili.
• You want another bridge built over the Ohio River , just so long as it doesn't cut through YOUR neighborhood.
• You've experienced a "salt storm" after a two-inch snowfall.
• You think the only thing Southern Indiana is good for is buying pumpkins.
• You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Louisville .