25 Indicators that You Grew Up in Warwick, NY

Recently, while navigating through Facebook, I came across a list of ways to tell that you're from Warwick, NY. As a Warwick native, I thought that some of them were hysterical, but coming from an obviously different generation than the author of that list, I felt like there were definitely some items that were missing from my childhood. Anyway, I decided to draw up my own list of 25 Indicators That You Grew Up in Warwick, NY.

25) The first time you ever cut school was to be an extra in the movie "In and Out."

24) When you hear the name Moses, the first person you think of isn't from the Bible or the NBA.

23) Instead of Christmas caroling, you used to go walk around the front lawn of the house on Spanktown Road.

22) Your idea of diversity is having friends from Greenwood Lake and Florida.

21) The second time you cut school was for a cup of coffee at the Country Dream. While sipping your coffee, you glanced out the window and noticed one of your classmates going for a run.

20) The most action that your hometown police have ever seen involved a black bear in a tree outside of the bank.

19) The first set of tits you ever saw belonged to a cow...the second set belonged to a different cow.

18) You once ran out of class because you saw the cops ticketing cars outside of St. Stephen's Church.

17) A member of your Cub Scout Pack vigorously questioned the mayor about the need for a second traffic light on Main Street.

16) A night at the theatre growing up involved the Light the Lights talent show.

15) You failed Mr. Waleski's seventh grade science class and so did both of your parents.

14) You've run from the law on Sugar Loaf Mountain.

13) The highlight of your Christmas shopping as a young child was going to see the moose head on the wall in Gilvan's.

12) You're ready to punch the next person who claims to have seen the lights from the alleged music video that Michael Jackson filmed on Sandfordville Road.

11) You were arrested by your Little League coach.

10) While delivering pizzas to the local prison, you were buzzed in and directed to walk around until you "find the guy who ordered them."

9) The greatest "parade" you've ever been to had two fire engines, a police car, two school buses and a bunch of cars honking their horns as they drove down Main Street at 1 am in front of a dozen random people.

8) You remember your mom getting excited about rumors that Tom Selleck was buying a horse farm on Minturn Road.

7) After your first day of fourth grade, you went home holding your head high with pride because you had just learned that your school gym had more lines on its floor than any gym in the state.

6) You stopped opening your window on the bus after getting hit in the head with a tree branch.

5) The lady at the Inkwell has yelled at you on more than one occasion.

4) You've been to a birthday party with Penny the Pony.

3) You played soccer for Dawson's Auto.

2) You've milled about Waterbury Estates investigating a rumor that Hulk Hogan owns a house in Warwick.

1) You though you were a bad ass because you hung out in the Burger King parking lot!!!