You know you're from Kansas City when...

[AllThingsKC]

I think we have a similar topic on this already, but I couldn't find it.  So, here it is:




You know you're from Kansas City when...


...you make sure people know which state you?re from when explaining you're from KC.

... you think Northtowners drive like crazy.

... you whined through the 90's about Marty ball and now wish he was back so the chiefs could just make the playoffs.

... you know better than to try and drive through "the triangle" at rush hour.

...you've been told that you're going to hell or asked to help a guy put a "down payment on a cheesburger" when walking through the plaza.

... you know to get off the interstate if you're headed into downtown and the traffic report says there's an accident at the Benton curve.

... you know Leawood sucks, even if you live there.

... you've jammed with the Hari Krishnas in front of Barnes and Noble.

...you know what color Gunther Cunninghams awful glasses are.

... you've had a skyscraper at Winsteads.

... you remember how awesome Ward Parkway Mall used to be, and now complain that you have to go to Town Center

... you've said "but we were in Missouri, so the cops just let us go"

... you never actually went downtown before P&L showed up

... you've stumbled through Westport.

... you brag about having the only WWI memorial in the nation, but neglect to tell people it looks like a cock and balls.

... you can't help but giggle when talking about the "massive shuttlecocks" in front of the Nelson.

... you have ever defended Dick Vermeil for being such a cry baby.

... you've bragged to others how close you live to the meth capital of the world, but thank God it?s still far away enough to not make you feel white trash.

... you think Johnson County folks are a bit pretentious (even if you are one).

...you've had Brian Busby come to your school to talk about Weather.

... you've had a Gates BBQ employee scream at you, "May I help you?"

... you've gotten in a fight in grade school over the MU/KU allegiance.

... you call Cure and/or Nativity "Our Lady of the Lexus".

... Tech N9ne.

... you know who Belly Boy is.

... you've endured the Monkey Lady.

... the term "the Dot" itself has made you laugh.

... you know where the Appleby's house is.

... and George Brett's house.

... you brag that you're from the Missouri side.

... you brag that you're from the Kansas side.

... your driving directions always involve Ward Parkway or State Line.

... Wyandotte County?s layout confuses the hell out of you.

... you think that every year is the year the Chiefs will win it all.

... you remember when the Detonator and the Mamba were ground-breaking rides.

...you'll only buy a drink at a baseball game if it is advertised by a man yelling "LEEMONADE LEEMONADE LEEMONADE"

...you know the Royals suck, but you refuse to let any Cardinals fan forget about the 1985 World Series.

... you know that KC has a Jazz District down at 18th and Vine, but you've never been there.

... you can't find a steak worthy of your palette outside of KC.

... you know that if you don't get to Suicide Hill by 8 AM, you're gonna get nothing but mud.

... you know the name Buck O'Neil needs to be in the Baseball Hall of Fame....NOW.

... you know that Union Station wasn't always so lame.

... you have had some of the best BBQ in your life... at a gas station.

... one of your guilty pleasures is Go Chicken Go, despite how disgusting it really is.

... you've eaten a meal that was delivered to you by a model train.

.. regardless if you're from the suburban wannabe KC area, you still tell people from out of town you're from KC; and that's because it sounds so much worse to say you're from Shawnee Mission, Leawood, Overland Park, Liberty, Harrisonville, Belton, Blue Springs, Lee's Summit, Mission Hills, Olathe, Odessa, Longview, Grandview, Raytown, Merriam, Riverside, Kearney, De Soto, Fairway, Gladstone, Excelsior, Leavenworth, Ottawa, Prairie Village, Raymore, Bonner Springs (hahahahaha), Parkville, Tonganoxie, Unity Village, Westwood, Peculiar, Riverside, Independence, Smithville, etc. I mean come on, how lame is that?

... you and your friends have been talking about stealing a 69 South sign for years.

... you are wary of Flush Creek.

... you still call it Sandstone.

... you've played football on the median of Ward Parkway.

... you can tell a "Lin Elliot" joke.

... you think Winsteads craps all over Steak and Shake in quality and taste.

... you think St. Louis sucks, and HAVE POSTED ALL THE REASONS WHY.

... you've celebrated the turning on of Christmas lights with about 100,000 other drunk people... every year.

... you take the back way to Kauffman/Arrowhead by passing by LC's Barbeque.

... you've drank at Loose Park at night.

... you know how to make (and have consumed) a Caribou Lou.

... you went to Knights of Columbus dances.

... you know that fireworks sustain Riverside's economy.

... on nights when you feel like being classy, you drink Boulevard Wheat with a lemon.

... it can take you up to 45 minutes to get to a friend?s house, without traffic.

... you remember Bob "The Hammer" Hamlin.

... one word: Comets.

... you went to Blades/Comets games at Kemper Arena.

... you know who the "Nigerian Nightmare" is.

... you know Manny.

... you set off enough fireworks to blow up China every year on the fourth of July, even though all the news stations remind you "they're cracking down this year."

... you went to Waldo Pizza/Imo's/Uno's before a grade school/high school dance.

... you know the following numbers: 648-8888 and 321-2277 (and can sing the accompanying songs).

... you spent a full day learning how life works at Exchange City.

... you remember running through the Crown Center fountains as a kid.

... you've stood in line for hours to buy a dual pass for The Edge of Hell and The Beast and complained about how bad the Beast sucked afterwards.

... you've been to Kaleidoscope (and still want to go back).

... you like restaurants that "choke their own chickens"

... when you read names like Arthur Bryants, Gates, Jack Stack, or Oklahoma Joes you begin to salivate.

... you loved going through that small neighborhood in Mission Hills with the lights strung across the lake, but lived on a street where one d-bag did the same thing to his front yard in an attempt to be artistic or cool, but just came off looking like a prick because no one else in the neighborhood participated.

... you remember the "rainbow house" that used to be across from Ward Parkway Mall (before they painted it).

... you brag that you're not from the Most Dangerous City in the nation, St. Louis.

... blues and barbeque with picnic tables and fatty budweiser make the perfect date. (that was a BBs reference)

...you know you?re from Kansas City if you think Gatorade X-Factor was named after Dante Hall.

... If you got phone calls from your friends when Kennedy's burned down.

... Bonner Springs... hahahahaha, Bonner.

...you remember when the Watson's girl was hot.

...you randomly and drunkenly start doing the Chief's Indian chant and find yourself leading a choir of bar/partygoers.

... You know who Stormy and Windy are.

... when you still mourn the loss of the Zambezi Zinger

...when you get a ticket every time you drive into Kansas from KCMO.

... you ate grinders at Mario's

... you have appeared on Metro Sports and thought you made it big time.

... you can finish this sentence..."Shawnee Mission Kia, Just a short drive, Shawnee Mission Parkway & _____"

... you call Johnson County Community College "JUCO"

... you refer to highways as "71 Highway" or "50 Highway" instead of "highway 71" like the rest of the country

...you know why "We Got the Funk" became the theme song of the mayor.

... you choose to overlook the fact that Bo Jackson played for the Raiders

... you know how to correctly enunciate the words "Price Chopper"

... you know that the correct ending of the Star Spangled Banner is "home of the CHIEFS"

...you, in your arrogance, attempt to eat the biggest burger that the Flea Burger offers. And you fail. You fail bad.

[Stockton]

So many of these are true, even for me, a KCK resident.

But then I think I'd be proud to say I live in Westwood, Fairway, Mission Hills, Prairie Village or even Leawood when specifying beyond "Kansas City". Those suburbs are top-notch. *Shields himself from flying stones.*

[im2kull]

Man, That brings back some memories!

[mlind]

When you say Kansas City, you slur Kansas into one word - Kans City.

When you refer to it as Charlie Bryant's and got ribs and brisket there before Calvin Trillin wrote about it. 

You know you're from KCK when your father (who was born there in 1923) says it's the only place where the whole town is on the wrong side of the tracks. 

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[Gladstoner]

... When asked "Have you ever been in a tornado?", you answer "Just one".