This e-mail list came to us from a proud Pensacolian whose family has lived here since the early 1900s. We think it’s a lot of fun and thought we’d share it.  Add a few, if you know a few….  

You Might Be from PENSACOLA if you—

• Know that a Blue Angel is a pilot, not a heavenly being.
• Think the four seasons are “almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas.”
• Know that defensive driving means knowing the Snow Bird’s car ahead of you just might cross 4 lanes of traffic and make that right hand turn at the last minute afterall…..
• Witnessed the whole public school system closed on the sighting of a singular snowflake.
• Know that you will be late for work on Thursday because  Wednesday is girls’ night out on the Fish House Deck Bar.
• Accept that you are the only people in the country who toss mullet as a distance-throwing game—as well as eat them.
• Know that when traveling on I-110 you get static over the radio when the “Hot Doughnuts Now” light is on at Krispy Kreme.
• Know these street names in order and know they are actually the same road:
  1. Saufley Field Road, Michigan Avenue, Beverly Parkway, Brent Lane, Bayou Boulevard, and Perry Avenue
  2. Mobile Highway, Cervantes Street, Scenic Highway, and Highway 90
  3. Hwy. 29, Pensacola Blvd., Pace Blvd., Barrancas Avenue, Gulf Beach Hwy., Sorrento Rd., and Perdido Key Blvd. 
• Eat fried mullet.
• Own a generator and have a year’s supply of water and gas stockpiled for next year’s hurricane season.
• Have celebrated an anniversary, birthday, Valentine’s Day, or any special celebration at Jackson’s Steakhouse.
• Cried when you learned that J’s Bakery was closing and you celebrated upon its reopening as J’s Pastry Shop.
• Think a graffiti-covered bridge is actually a local landmark instead of a vandalized eyesore.

• Don’t have an ice scraper for your windshield, and on the ONE occasion it happens you think you’re so smart and use a credit card.
• Start most of your directions by saying “Turn left at Jerry’s Drive-In.”
• Call a drive to Nine Mile Road a “road trip.”
• Still call the corner of Garden and Alcaniz “The Sheraton.”
• Believe everyone should pull over for funeral processions.
• Know that when arriving in Gulf Breeze from the 3-Mile Bridge, you immediately do the posted 35-mph speed limit and honor that speed limit through Gulf Breeze.
• Have gotten a speeding ticket in Gulf Breeze.
• Would never drive to the beach to the Blue Angels show, preferring to go by boat instead.
• Arrange your social calendar around Blue Angels weekend.
• Call Scenic Highway “The Bluffs.”
• Moved back to Pensacola more than three times.
• Attend summer concerts in the park, enduring blazing heat and 98-percent humidity.
• Know the correct pronunciation of Texar Drive and Reus Street.
• Still call Perdido Beach “Gulf Beach.”
• Continue to rebuild after every hurricane because: “Why would you live anywhere else?”
• Know where to go when someone says “meet me at the sea shell.”
• Have ever gone to Alabama to buy fireworks.

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You Might Be from PENSACOLA if you…