20 Ways to Tell You’re From Springfield

by | Apr 8, 2015

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  1. You have a cousin who is an aspiring rapper
  2. You know how to get down Sumner Avenue — at 3 p.m. — without ever driving on Sumner
  3. You’ve been to the Alumni Club once or a hundred times — there is no in-between
  4. You definitely have an opinion about Melvin Jones III and the $575,000 settlement he got from the city after Jones was beaten following a 2009 police traffic stop
  5. You are willing to wait in line to eat Red Rose pizza
  6. You know a bar that doesn’t mind if regular patrons smoke cigarettes
  7. You’ve wandered into Mardi Gras just to see if your friends are there
  8. You’ve made long-term friends with a security officer standing outside a nightclub
  9. You’ve explored deep enough into Forest Park to get totally lost
  10. Someone took you to a show at Symphony Hall when you were a kid and you feel a little bad that you’ve never been back
  11. It doesn’t seem at all strange to you to drive to the Hall of Fame in the middle of the night in search of a good bar scene
  12. You know all the bikers hang out at Stearns Square in the summer
  13. You know where to get the best empanadas: Puerto Rico Bakery and Restaurant
  14. When the sun goes down, you stay the hell out of Six Corners
  15. You’ve chowed down at the “World’s Largest Pancake Breakfast”
  16. You own at least one Dr. Seuss book
  17. You have a favorite food truck
  18. You miss the Hippodrome
  19. You complain about Bright Nights traffic, but you go see the winter spectacle every year
  20. You know the crack in the Liberty Bell has got nothing on the Springfield bell-hole