You know you're from STATEN ISLAND when:
- The landfill is known as "the dump."
- The Monastery and Sea View aren't scary anymore, just another place to drink.
- There's a bakery in every town.
- You know never to walk alone in Stapleton at night if you are gay.
- After a night of clubbing, you end up at Perkins.
- You remember when club drink was "Cylo."
- You're originally from Brooklyn.
- Your Italian or your best friend is.
- At least someone on your block is in the mafia.
- You know never to walk on South Beaches sand without shoes.
- You've seen Method Man in the Mall at least once.
- All the kids in the South Shore have a gang.
- You've played in the P.A.L. league or little league baseball/softball.
- Going to Tottenville is like going to Jersey.
- There are more security guards in your school than there are kids.
- When you leave NY everyone thinks you have an accent, when really they do and they repeat everything you say and you look at them like they're stupid.
- It's pronounced STAT'NILAN.
- Your block is like the United Nations.
- There is at least one pizzeria within 1 block of your house.
- You have idols cell phone # in your stored in your phone.
- You know where to find alcohol at 3 AM.
- You don't go to Manhattan, you go to "The City."
- Everybody knows somebody, even if it is your mother's cousin's
son-in-law's sister's boyfriend.
- Stickball/Handball/Kickball/Dodgeball were the games of choice in School.
- Your High School Has a Handball team.
- All the girls wear a pound of makeup
- You own a North Face jacket.
- 1 Place , RALPHS ICES.
- you know about dininos
- If you live in the north shore you know wierd leg guy
- Every Christmas you go to the house lighting in Great kills.
- 3 bottles of Gel only last you a week.
- On the ferry you know the bums by heart.
- You remember when in 98' you were told not to wear red or look at your
watch to give the time because you'd be stabbed by a member of the bloods.
- Todt Hill is another way of saying "mafia."
- You know Crazy Eddie at the cell phone stand.
- You own Up-Towns and Tim's.
- you've played lazer tag in funstation at least once
- Your shocks are shot because every 2 ft there are pot holes.
-Everybody and their mother has a nextel
-you dont know what spreads faster, the rumors or the girls legs
- Either you're or your best friends last name ends in a vowel.
- And finally you know your from Staten Island when you go to school dressed in:
Boys - Black Velour with a white wife beater (or tee), gold chain, white
sneakers, and have a tape up with more gel than one bottle can hold.
Girls - Velour and or Club t-shirts, uptowns,
and a nameplate necklace, a pound of make up, and your orange from tanning
almost everyday.
Hahahahahaha!!!