YOU MIGHT BE FROM BRIGHOUSE COURT IF...

hungry? OCB baby!!!

you can smell one or more of the following from your own porch or high school track year-round and suddenly your tummy starts to rumble: McDonald's fries, the McDonald's dumpster, or House of Dynasty... mmmmmmmmmmmm

you forget to call someone on her birthday

you've ever yelled to a group of friends "hey bu" and had them all turn around

you know which categories hold which movies in blockbuster

one word: kane.

if sour patch kids to you are a weekend thang

you've ever gone to a photo show and seen a picture of you or your friends

you've not only hidden in numerous trees and bushes around your neighborhood, but know which are the most effective in manhunt

you've ever yelled "BAIL!" while sledding because a tree got in your way

you've ever sat on a kitchen floor for hours and thought it was normal

you've ever baked dozens of cookies but were too sick from eating dough to eat even one

you've ever gotten up at 3 am to sell coffee and doughnuts

you've ever been stuck in friends' houses without any of the people that actually live there

the words "mac n cheese" and "mariokart" have a special, memorable ring to them when said together

you've ever avoided eye contact with the man in the red truck

you've ever hit the red truck with a soccer ball when the man was in it

you've ever been in rosie's laundry room for reasons completely irrelevant to laundry

you've ever sat on ari's porch bored. but not really. weird.

you thought you came up with the song-guessing game

you've ever driven around to avoid being bored

you've almost hit someone in one of three parking lots

you've ever busted your ass on the way to school

you've ever fed your rent-a-duck while eating lunch at the "pond"

you've ever been beaten up by your friend's younger brother

you've ever chased a car

you've ever been chased by a car

you've ever been chased by mutant crickets

you've ever left the hill because you heard strange noises coming from the woods

you've been told you could use the car but somehow couldn't

you can decifer between kids who were born naturally and those that have "frozen papas"

you've ever been ditched in a grocery store

you're on a designated team in case any outdoor recreational game should begin (A's and J's baby!!)

you've ever been yelled at by a family member to get off the phone and "walk your ass up to her house"

you've ever been yelled at to put a coat on by some parent other than your own

you've been to a bangin party on the street one night, then been busted just five houses down the next

your diet consists of white people food, korean food, italian food AND mexican food (bust mostly just bagels and pizza)

you complain about having to walk down to Giant

your family owns at least one car with the name "Ghetto + its color"

you had no idea what your friends' street numbers were until you actually left to go somewhere

you don't actually know what a REAL ice scraper looks like

you don't like to talk about how at least one of yours pets died

you knew at least 5 different ways to get to and from school and which one to take depending on what time of day it was

you go to someone's house not because their parents are cool, but because their parents are gone

you've slept through more movies than you've actually seen

you've ever decorated more than one tree at Christmas time

you've ever applied real manhunt strategies to nights when you're running from the cops

you know where all the starbucks are, but you'd still rather go to 7-11

you've ever found beer in your dog's water bowl

you've ever told someone you couldn't babysit their kids simply because you didn't feel like it, but ended up having to anyway because you passed them on the way to your friend's house

you still refer to the playground that's five years old as the "new playground"

you've ever had rocks thrown at your window in the middle of the night

you've ever been depicted one of the Golden Girls

you straighten other people's hair more than you straighten you own

you're one of about twenty kids who actually live by your old high school

you know where the parties are that are around your school but you need directions to your own friends' houses

when you actually find your friend's house, you realize it took you twenty minutes to get there

you still refer to the cable box as "the green thing"

the only time you hang out with other kids is when they come to your street to go sledding

you've ever been nervous about your own surprise party

GOT SOMETHIN TO ADD? I KNOW YOU DO!! EMAIL ME AT aehelms@edisto.cofc.edu !!!!

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