Even though I don’t live in Chicago anymore (thank goodness because I’m not a big fan of crowds or traffic, two things which help define the city!), I still appreciate the humor in the following forward sent to me by a relative who ironically also moved away from the Chicago area a few years ago. If you’ve ever lived in or near the 3rd largest city in the country, or even if you’ve just visited Chicago a few times, you will be able to appreciate the humor in the following one-liners:
If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you live in Chicago.
If you’ve worn shorts and a winter coat at the same time, you live in Chicago.
If you’ve had a telephone conversation using more Spanish than you thought you knew with someone who dialed a wrong number, you live in Chicago.
If “vacation” means going anywhere south of I – 80 for the weekend, you live in Chicago.
If you measure distance in hours, you live in Chicago.
If you have switched from ” heat” to “A/C” in the same day and back again, you live in Chicago.
If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in Chicago.
If you carry jumpers in your car and your wife knows how to use them, you live in Chicago.
If you design your kid’s Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit, you live in Chicago.
If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph — you’re going 80 and everybody is passing you, you live in Chicago.
If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow, you live in Chicago.
If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction, you live in Chicago.
If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you live in Chicago.
If you find 10 degrees “a little chilly”, you live in Chicago.
That’s funny 😀 There are even a few of these that you could say the same about NWO. Our DQ (Eric’s, anyway is closed about the same time 🙁 ). I have worn shorts and a winter coat a few times when it was wintery. Nowhere near as bad as the strange person who was in shorts, t-shirt, and sandals when the temp was -8.
Agreed – many of the weather-related ones are also applicable to NWOH. Hmmm, I should have added something in there about how the kids will be in school even if there’s 4 inches of snow on the ground…
So true. 🙂 I didn’t know about DQ, but perhaps that’s because I never go to DQ.