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You Know You're From Clifton Park When.

1) You find it perfectly normal to spend countless amount of hours in the side parking lot of Price Chopper.
2) You go to taco bell 10-15 times a week
3) You don't just eat at Taco Bell; you revolve your entire social life around who's in the parking lot.
4) The mall is still and always will be known to you as "CCM".
5) Shen is not just a school; it is a way of life.
6) You understand why our school is entitled as "Shen".
7) Going to Saratoga is similar to a vacation.
8) Going to Albany is a vacation.
9) You've either worked at a telemarketing company or for a retirement center.
10) If you haven't worked at a telemarketing company or retirement center you applied and got denied.
11) You have nothing but love for Francis the can man.
12) Friendly's is high quality dining.
13) You still own and wear you're Rec. Soccer t-shirts in a variety of colors.
14) Starbursts is much more than a candy.
15) The expression "F-F-F-our water canons and prepared to get a little wet" is well understood.
16) You were Woody and Jim's biggest fans.
17) You stopped listening to Fly 92 when Woody and Jim left.
18) If you didn't live in country knolls, you wished you did.
19) You've been able to purchase beer at USA gas station since you were 13.
20) You have no problems cracking open a beer in Taco Bell parking lot.
21) You have no problems cracking open a beer and hanging out at any neighborhood parks.
22) You have no problems cracking open a beer anywhere.
23) Town security is of no threat to you whatsoever.
24) You are on a first name basis with Deputy Dupris.
25) The fireworks at the Clifton Commons sucked ass but you continue to go every year.
26) You can get a medium soda for free at Taco Bell.
27) You understand the terms "Pchop" and "Tbell".
28) You know what ghetto chopper is.
29) Driving around aimlessly is an art perfected by any high school driver.
30) You know at least 5 drug dealers.
31) You've gotten drunk behind the billboards, at briar patch, or in any field that has been designated as a party place.
32) You go to an invite party only and your entire high school population is there.
33) Funneling is an art.
34) Anyone from Saratoga is clearly the enemy and deserves the shit kicked out of them for any reason.
35) P.S.- TOGA SUCKS
36) You've learned to accept that there will be cigarette ash on the toilet seats at Shen.
37) The cookie lady played a crucial role in the faculty at Shen.
38) Going to Wal-Mart can potentially be made into a day trip.
39) Only when Taco Bell closes is it all right for you to go to either Denny's or Wal-Mart.
40) You've never actually watched a Shen football game, although you attended all the games.
41) The most famous historical landmark is the Snoopy Building.
42) You can recognize the ice cream man jingle anywhere.
43) Turf does not mean steak to you.
44) Harry Weiner was a respected teacher at your school.
45) You don't even know how to play pool, yet you still find yourself at the pool hall time and time again.
46) The Police Blotter is the only thing you read in the Community News.
47) You recognize over half the names in the police blotter.
48) 371, 877, 383, 373 are not just random numbers.
49) You don't go 30 on Main Street, until you pass the firehouse, break down to 30, check for cops and then cruise back up to 45.
50) You don't shop at our local mall, but instead would rather travel to Cross Gates, Colonie Center, or Wilton Mall, to go to the same exact stores.
51) The racial diversity is an extreme minimum, three black families, 4 Asian and they are all related.
52) Smoking weed under the twin bridges is one of the main attractions.
53) Tourism is little to none for the exception of the soccer tournament and when Dream Street plays at Northern Lights.
54) Northern Lights is not just a constellation.
55) You know better than to eat anything from Mama's.

56) You live within walking distance of a Stewarts.

57) You main source of income as a child was the money machine at Starbursts.

58) Country Drive In is so much more than a double wide that serves ice cream.

59) A half retarded drooling substitute teacher can forever change your

life-word up Girard!

60) We wanted a funeral when Friendly's burnt down.

61) Your elementary school dictates your social status

62) You have no idea what your principal looks like

63) You dont know the majority of kids in your graduating class.

64) You went to several concerts at SPAC when you didn't know the band because

A) everyone else was or B) it was a good reason to smoke pot

65) People say they go to HVCC we really know they are just retaking 12th

grade.

66) Fucked up or not- all the houses look exactly the same.

67) There is the token older kid who high school kids use to buy beer.

68) The hall monitors have a serious resemblance to nazis.

69) The majority of the cars are Honda Civics or minivans.

70) Respect day just means go to school wasted, or not at all.

71) ??

72) At least two of your friends have the same name as you.

73) Youre not Jewish. (And if you are, you are in the extreme minority)

74) You still crave to sit on the kid steps at the public library.

75) You learned over time that Great Escape is nothing more than a luxurious

vacation for white trash.

76) Youve played at least one game at the commons in your life.

77) The Altamont Fair has a special place in your heart.

78) You know who the Purcell Family singers are and youve memorized their

song lyrics.

79) You make trips to CKS in the wintertime just to see the crazy house all

lit up and decorated for Christmas.

 

80) You have no problems eating a peppermint pig, actually you enjoy it.

81) You're more than well acquainted with the Exit 8 Jesus.

82) Even though you live directly off of Exit 8, 8A, 10, or 11, you still get

off at Exit 9, to cruise the wild ass CP strip.

83) You were too good for Hoffmans Playland.

84) Youve never actually seen Ballston Lake.

85) Its a capability to get plagiarism in gym class.

86) When the students drive better cars then the teachers.

87) More than half of the people at Dennys are throwing up in the bathroom

due to drunkenness or being hung over.

88) Your childhood social life revolved around the phrase "wanna walk to

Stewarts"?

89) You can name 10 people named John with no trouble.

90) You've attended teen night at the Y at least once.

91) You can easily identify people by their cars.

92) You know who Scott from Starbursts is.

93) Going to "the pool" (whether it be Barney Road or Burning Bush) was a

common summer activity.

94) The 5-cent sample candy at Price Chopper is free.

95) You know someone with the last name of Lynch.

96) Everyones child has special and gifted talents and should be treated so.

97) Everyone was Gowana student of the month.

98) You're proud of the fact that there was once a store called American

Cowboy in the mall.

99) Bomb threats have become common enough that kids carry around extra

homework to do just in case.

100) Pot smoking has become tolerated by teachers- as long as it's not in the

back of their classroom. Rock on, Rinella.

101) An Otis Spunkmeyer cookie qualifies as a perfectly healthy and nutritious

lunch.

102) The McDonalds on Rt. 146 can screw up an order of fries.

103) KFC is free after 10 PM.

104) Despite the cat rumors at Dragon Buffet, it is still damn good, and not

even that would keep you from going back.

105) Guptils just wasnt worth the drive compared to Starbursts, besides

Starbursts had a play station.

106) You bragged to your out of town friends that you know the "Everybody

Likes Jack Byrnes" kids.

107) Even Mohanason, who is more neutral than Switzerland, has a deep hatred

for our sports team

108) In elementary school if you didnt have Sambas and Umbros, or at least

one out of the two, you were nothing.

109) Youve pranked Phone Friend at least once in your childhood.

110) No matter what the sign says, there will always be right on red at the

Plank and Kinns intersection.

111) The Odyssey is not a classic novel written by Homer.

112) Youve mastered the coin drop game at Taco Bell.

113) The dances were only as good as your buzz.

114) You go to Syracuse University, where the undergrad is 12,000+ and you

hang out and primarily associate yourself with Shen kids.

 

115) Drug deals and fights take place in the church parking lot.

116) You pay 100 dollars for tickets to the prom, stay for an hour, and then

end up buying cheap beer and doing the same thing youd do any other night.

117) The gym teachers either wear rainbow sweat suits or could pass for

sweatshop owners.

118) Sitting more than four to a table in the high school library can result

in life threatening consequences.

119) The cheerleading roster is larger than the football team roster.

120) You havent finished a beer yet, and the cops have already arrived to

break up the party.

121) Cops get beer bottles thrown at them when they bust a party.

122) You destroy the opposing team on their own homecoming. (Sucks to be

Columbia, Shaker, and Bethlehem, anyone who isnt Shen).

123) Applebees, Fridays, Outback, and now Chilis is within a one mile

radius of each other and they serve the same exact food.

124) Venezias is the place to go for pizza, whether they are breaking any

child labor laws, is a separate issue in itself.

125) You search the mall mindlessly hoping to find Caldors and McDonalds but

instead are faced with about 10 different craft stores.

126) You have caught yourself saying Shop-N-Save more than once, when its

been Hannaford now for quite some time.

127) You have never actually seen kids at the little red schoolhouse.

128) You see a dog shitting on the side of the road and wonder why the

citizens of Clifton Park arent properly utilizing the Dog Park made

specifically for that sort of thing.

129) Youve never been Midnight Bowling, but youre parents sure think you

have been.

130) Greg Koubek is the closest thing you have to a celebrity, and practically

no one outside of Clifton Park knows who he is.

131) On any given Halloween, there are at least 300 girls dressed up as

babies.

132) Campus Patrol takes their jobs way to seriously, directing traffic with

Michael Jackson gloves.

133) Youre not even a Massachusetts residence, but you still have bragging

rights of having an indicted pedophilic priest.

134) Youre reunited with your best friend from 9th grade as they are walking

across the stage.

135) The one and only time youll ever be at SPAC sober is graduation, and

youd do ANYTHING for a beer.

136) The world could be ending; and youd still only have a one-hour delay.

137) Every year the girls do consistently better than the boys sports teams,

yet every year the newspaper is flooded with pictures of the defeated boys

team.

138) Price Chopper was robbed at gunpoint.

139) Residence think the more banks in the town, the more money they can

pretend to have.

140) You wont shop at Resnicks Mattresses just because of the obnoxious

commercials.

141) You can find your way around Country Knolls without having any

difficulties.

142) After midnight, on any given night there is at least 2 sheriffs cars,

just chillen at Mobil.

143) Your mom or one of your moms friends works at school.

144) The only reason you are such a follower of sporting events is because

its a sure thing that you can get drunk before hand.

145) Youve drank at CKS Park before, in all types of weather, and in front of

all types of men, women, and children.

146) Youve gone through the drive through late at night asking if they have

any extra food theyd like to give away.

147) You ride in the handicap chairs and run into things at Wal-Mart and Price

Chopper just to piss around.

148) The only tan youll ever be getting is from Sunsations or Sunquest.

149) Not any of the sports teams, boys or girls, bowling to basketball, would

pass a drug test if required.

150) Youve never been to Water Slide World, but you most certainly know the

song by heart.

151) 476-9200 was on your speed dial as a child. (You know thats Fly 92 dont

pretend you dont)

152) Senior skip day has been officially designated as every Friday of the

week.

153) The only tourists we have are tourists who desire to be in Saratoga but

have gone a bit astray.

154) You are pissed that McDonalds and Caldors no longer remain in CCM.

155) You're still bitter that Orenda beat Karigon at basketball in the fifth

grade.

156) When D & R Village and Timberwick II are strategically positioned right

next to each other just to emphasize diversity.

157) You recollect the Ground Round that was also a prime scene in the Clifton

Country Mall, before it got rid of nearly every store previously mentioned and

sucked big balls.

158) You have memorized the menu at CDI

159) You have no problems understanding by saying CDI, I meant Country Drive

In.

160) You abandoned Persnicketys once Starbucks opened.

161) You wear pajamas to school every day.

162) Medicall is only liable enough to cure a mild sore throat, and even that

is iffy.

163) You use to get your hair cut at Fantastic Sams and you could make your

hair disappear for a lollypop.

164) You are under the impression that Chaucers still exists.

165) A summer without Dave Matthews is like a blind man without his cane.

(Thanks Sean-personal touch from the younger and wiser of the Brondis).

166) You or someone you know has crashed their car on Bruno road, that road is

bad bad karma.

167) When driving around you often get the urge to steal lawn ornaments,

specifically pink flamingos and gnomes.

168) Youve been caught chalking your or someone elses driveways,

red-handedly.

169) After spending hours outside of fast food establishments, you discover

you can find an average of 50 cents lying on the ground below the pick up

window at the drive thru.

170) That 50 cents then becomes money spent on the lotto machine in P chop.

171) Youve smoked Mary Jane at Mary Jane row dog walking park

172) You got your website ripped off by some ballston spa fucker.

 


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