"This is for those who lived in L.I.C. and Astoria"

You know you are from Queens if...
1) You know someone who went to Newtown, Adams , Bryant, Cleveland or Mary Lewis High Schools
2) You have shopped on Steinway St. , Greenpoint Ave. , or Jamaica Avenue.
3) You don't go to Manhattan, You go into the "City" or down to "The Village"
4) The Belt Parkway And Grand Central Suck But You Know Them Both Like The Back Of Your Hand Also the Interboro will always be the Interboro
5) You Know That Crossing Queens Blvd. At Rush Hour Is A Suicide Mission
6) You Live Within 20 Blocks Of A Cemetery , a Chinese or Italian Restaurant .
7) You Know The Difference Between Crossbay and Woodhaven Blvd.
8) At One Time In Your Life You Have Fished Off Of The Crossbay Bridge 9) You Know The Difference Between Going' With, Seeing, Fooling Around With and Going Out With Someone
10) You Curse, A Lot (Mostly the guys that thought they were "cool"!)
11) You Can Name At Least 6 (if not all) Members Of The "86 "METS
12) You Have Smoked or Drank at "Astoria Or Forest Park" .. hells gate , the pyramids and lets not forget Rabbits Island or Skillman Park , Crocheron Park, Kissena Park, World's Fair, and any others you can think of.& nbsp;
13) You Know That Juniper Valley Is Not Between 2 Mountains 14) You Used To Know Where To Get Alcohol At 4am
15) Your Friends Came Over To Hang Out On The Stoop
16) You Knew Someone With Mob Ties
17) At Least One Of Your Neighbors Was A Mental Case
18) You Have Cruised Crossbay Or Franny Lew Blvd.
19) Private Beach? Whats That? Meet Me At 116 St. or better yet, Tar Beach anyone?
20) You Know What A Two Fare Zone Is
21) You Know That "New Park "On Crossbay Has The Best Pizza.or Rizzo's on Steinway St .
22) You Know People That Could Renew a Driver's License And Visit Their Parole Officer On Jamaica Ave
23) Every Day Of Your Life A Pigeon Would Bless Your Car
24) You Know That Bayside Girls Are As Bitchy As Middle Village Girls And That Howard Beach Girls Are The Worst
25) You Have Been To Or Heard Of The Big Bow Wow Or the White House 26) Some Of Your Family Lived On The Island The Rest Lived A Few Blocks Away
27) You Have Been To At Least a Dozen Different Church Bazaars Whether You're Catholic Or Not
28) There Is A Bodega On Your Corner
29) There Is A Bar On Your Corner And You Have probably Been Hangin' Out There Since Before You Were 18... or younger
30) Even Though It Sucks You Still Go To The Queens Center Mall
31) You Have Learned To Ignore The Deafening Roar Of Low Flying Airplanes
32) You Know To Avoid The Grand Central Pkwy During The US OPEN (especially when the METS are playing at home)
33) You Have Searched Over An Hour For A Parking Space
34) You Hate Alternate Side Of The Street Parking
35) Deep In Your Heart You Fantasize About The Giants or Jets Coming Back To Queens
36) You know what "uzguys" means
37) After the bar, you didn't go home, you went to a diner or White Castle ! 38) You have been on the E, F, GG and/or the # 7 train
39) It's called the QUEENSBORO BRIDGE
40) You have been to Shea Stadium at least once .
41) You know all the great places (that used to be) in Rockaway!
42) You've been to Coney Island and ridden the Cyclone at least once .
43) You've played stick ball and running bases in the street.
Those of you from Queens hope you can relate to the places and those of you not from Queens hope you had a little insight to how we lived.