Sandy’s Blog

YOU KNOW YOU’RE FROM PARMA WHEN…

Half your friends work at Marc’s and the other half don’t work

You don’t know where the ghetto is but you know it exists since half the kids from your school live there

Every body tries to pimp out their automatic Cavaliers like they’re hot

White Socks

Every other lawn is decorated wilth chrome balls or windmills

When Wall Mart is connected to the mall

You move to the country and have a pond bigger than your whole lot

You get lost walking 3 blocks over to your friend’s house because the guy who designed the side streets let his 4 year old sun draw the plans for them

All you see is shopping plazas.

There are more masses held in Ukranian than there are in English

Pierogies are often used as currency

There is a pizza shop within walking distance

Jimmy Sentz is your hero

Anything you need you know you can get from Parmatown

You think that Marc’s is secretly run by the Mob

You saw Marc Glassman in public and were disappointed that he didn’t have a parrot on his shoulder like in the cartoons

Everyone in your town goes to Myrtle Beach for vacation

You know where to find the BK Lounge

You drink pop…. soda doesn’t exist unless its orange

Your city bird is the flamingo but you’ve only seen them at the zoo

You have 3 high schools for one city

You have fish fries and/or pierogies every friday

All the places you can hang out after a Friday night football game are right across the street from Byers. aka…Denny’s or Taco Bell

The word Polcar strikes fear in your heart

There’s a church on every corner… right across from a bar

You can find absolutely nothing to do

You can walk into Denny’s at any time day or night and know at least half of the people eating and at least half of the workers

Big ghetto vans are cool

When your driving on the streeet roads you feel like your white water rafting cause its so bumpy and crappy

The snow plow never comes down your street

It could be Alaska weather and YOU still wouldn’t get a snow day

The one side of the street is bumper to bumper cars

You’re never ever really sure if you should be shopping at Tops or Giant Eagle and now kind of wish the two were connected so that you wouldn’t have to drive across the parking lot just to finish buying groceries

You thought Chris Rock was absolutely hilarious until you realized he was referring to your mall when he was talking about “the mall white people used to go to”

You actually go to the high school football games to see the band, not the football team because you know they aren’t going to win

You leave Parma…well you never really leave Parma…you’re always drawn back somehow

You know who Ondo is

When you know what hybrid stereotypes ares. Ghetto meets Goth in one person. As if both weren’t scary enough

Well,  I can’t believe I turned 31.  My birthday was this past Thursday.  30 never really hit me probably because at the time we thought we were going to get hit by Hurricane Rita so I really didn’t think about it.  But, I turned 31 and think, “boy I’m old”.  But, I guess it isn’t really that bad. 

I had a good birthday.  Jason took the day off work.  We went out to eat lunch at TGI Friday’s and then went to the dollar theatre to see “Cars”.  We hadn’t seen a movie in the theatre probably since “Wedding Crashers”.  So, it was a good day.

Yesterday, I went to the salon for my present Jason gave me… a hair cut, manicure and pedicure.  It was wonderful.  I hope that I get to do that more often.   Jason had a surprise party planned for me, but it didn’t work out because our air conditioning died around 5 or so.  So, he had to cancel.  I was kind of surprised he would have planned it during the Ohio State game but he said he didn’t realize it was the night game when he planned it.    So, we ended up going to TGI Friday’s instead with a few friends.  We’re going to have a game night next weekend instead since the party got ruined.  All in all, it was a great birthday!  I want to thank all of you who sent me birthday wishes!