You Know You're From Corpus Christi If...

You're From Corpus Christi If...
1. You call it "Corpus."
2. Flour Bluff, Robstown, GP, Mathis, Beeville, Rockport, and Calallen are considered "out of town."
3. You think that Selena being from Corpus is a big deal.
4. You remember hurricanes fondly.
5. Most big concert for you were some dude or band from the 1980's playing at Concrete Street.
6. You get excited if a new restaurant opens in town, even if it's IHOP.
7. Going for a cruise means driving down Ocean Drive.
8. You know what a #1 or a #7 is at What-A-Burger.
9. Landry's and Joe's Crabshack are considered upscale restaurants.
10. You camp out with your family on Leopard Street for four days for the Buc Days parade.
11. There's a difference between the HEB's.
12. You know what HEB stands for (and laugh).
13. You claim you want to leave, but you never do.
14. You have What-A-Burger and Taqueria Jalisco on speed dial.
15. You've lost your keys, your money, and your virginity at the beach.
16. You grew up watching Joe Gazin and Dale Nelson.
17. You secretly love it but will die denying this fact.
18. "Meeting a celebrity" means standing in line at HEB next to a local anchorman.
19. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a camper on SPID.
20. "Vacation" means driving to South Padre.
21. Your work or classes are canceled because of "dangerous" 30 degree weather.
22. You think of the major food groups as beans, tortillas, and beer.
23. When it rains, it's the talk of the town for days.
24. When it snows, it's a national disaster (and sold on EBay).
25. During the summer, the car trunk doubles as an oven for your groceries.
26. You consider Corpus a metropolis.
27. The local paper covers national and international headlines on one page but require six pages for high school football.
28. You've had to switch from Heat to A/C in the same day.
29. You only own 3 spices: salt, pepper, and picante.
30. You find 95 degrees "a little warm" and 60 degrees downright freezing.
31. You think the only seasons are hot, damn hot, and winter.
32. You know if another person is from out of town the second he or she walks in the door.
33."Overachievers" go to A&M or UT-Austin. The rest must choose from A&M-CC or Del Mar.
34. You've had several friends move off and move back within a couple of months.
35. The Shrimporee, Bayfest, and the Livestock Show are the major social events for the whole year.
36. You know which one of our malls is the "good one" (although they’re both pathetic).
37. You have been to the Lexington and the Texas State Aquarium more times than you can count because out of town family was visiting.
38. You were sad when all of the Burger Kings closed down.
39. You know what high school Farrah Fawcett graduated from (Ray High School).
40. You know where part of the movie Pearl Harbor was filmed. (Movie star hotties, Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett, spent some quality time on the USS Lex.) You may have even snapped a picture or ten.
41. There's a group called From Corpus Christi With No Kids and you know why. (We're in the county with the highest teen pregnancy rate in the ENTIRE country.) See #15
42. The illiteracy rate in your county was the second highest in the NATION.
43. As a result of #42, your school did not have a nursery for the teachers’ kids, but it probably had on for the students' children.
44. You know what Corpus Christi means in Latin. (Yeah, we're from The Body of Christ.)
45. For A&M students, when responding to the question - "What college do you go to?", you have to say Texas A&M IN College Station or Corpus.
46. You remember when Red Line on SPID closed down and became a drive thru Mexican restaurant.
47. You are just as likely to catch a rat at Cole Park as a fish. Yeah, it happened; you have to be careful with those cast nets.
48. You tell anyone that mentions Desperate Housewives that you grew up in the same town as Eva Longoria even if you did not live there at the same time as her.
49. Your idea of club hopping is going back and forth between Stingers and Dicks.