You know you're from Allentown, Pennsylvania when...

• While you're driving and stop at a red light, the people on all sides of you have the bass turned up so high on their radios your windows start to shake
  
  
• You get cravings for hoagies, shoo fly pie, and pierogies
  
  
• Friendly's is considered the place to "be" with all your friends and your always there no matter what time of day or night.
  
  
• You know that 7th Street, MacArthur Road, and Route 145 are all the same road!
  
  
• When it snows you put chairs in your parking spot after you've dug it out so your neighbors don't steal it from you while you're gone.
  
  
• You see people outside "chillin" on their porches at all hours of the night but during the day its quiet and peaceful
  
  
• You know that Blue Ball, Intercourse, Bird-in-Hand, Mars, Venus, and Slippery Rock are all PA towns.
  
  
• You walk down the street and a car slows down by you and you hear "hey ma!, How ya doin? Holla atcha boy!" and you keep walking and the people in the car yell back "it's aiight you still beautiful!"
  
  
• You hear that snow's coming and you know that you most likely won't have school the next day or will have a school delay even if there's barely any accumulation or its mixed with rain
  
  
• You can name all the high schools in the city. Yup, that's right. ALL of them, you know the 2 public ones (Dieruff and Allen) and the only private one (Central).
  
  
• You don't know what a sub is, but you think they are trying to describe an imitation HOAGIE.
  
  
• When you get bored you go the corner store and see what's going on there and who's killed who.
  
  
• Your school is in the middle of drug/killing infested areas and it's right across from a hospital.
  
  
• The local Jordan Creek has pot growing around it naturally along with shopping carts and air conditioners.
  
  
• You live off of A-Treat soda
  
  
• You don't think "Wawa" sounds funny
  
  
• You pronounce the word "horrible" as "harrable"
  
  
• You think Tastycakes are the best thing
  
  
• You realize that besides going to the movies and places to eat Allentown really has nothing great to offer, not to the youth anyway.
  
  
• You refer to Allentown as A-Town
  
  
• When and IF you graduate from high school you leave for college in another state or go as far from Allentown as possible.
  
  
• Everyone you meet is Ghetto, even that rich white kid.
  
  
• You think going to Walmart at 3 in the morning is the most fun thing to do ever
  
  
• You have ever ended a sentence with "a while". Ex. "You know it happens every once and a while."
  
  
• You know what "water ice" is.
  
  
• You think Fasnacht Day and Groundhog Day are national holidays.
  
  
• "Hey Yuz Guyz" is your traditional greeting.
  
  
• You know how to pronounce Schuylkill, Hockendauqua, Catasauqua, and other weird names like that.
  
  
• You refer to Sunburst Plaza as The WZZO Building.
  
  
• You recognize the name "Concept Sciences"
  
  
• You actually get these jokes.