You know you are from Rochester when:

Found this in my archives... thought I'd post it...

You know you are from Rochester when:

"Waking up with the Wease" doesn't mean you have a respiratory infection.

The thought of eating a "garbage plate" makes your mouth water.

The only thing at the annual May Lilac Festival is snow.

The worst four-letter word you could say is "Fuji"

Soccer games have better attendance than baseball games.

You cant swim at the beach.

You thought you figured out that alternate-parking thing, but wind up with a ticket anyway.

Toronto is about 70 miles away but it takes about four hours to get there.

Half the people bring their dogs to festivals and the other half complain about it.

The name "Greater Rochester International Airport" is bigger than the airport itself.

There's an 800 number to report a pothole in the road.

City planners begin yet another feasibility study, in lieu of actually doing anything.

You know "Can of Worms" is not something you take fishing.

Your baby's first word is "Wegmans".

You ask lifetime residents where the George Eastman House is, but they don't know either.

In a city where it snows at least 90 inches a year, they build a new sports stadium with no roof on it.

Buildings with statues of guys with wings on the tops of them is not unusual to you.

It can be 70 degrees one day, below freezing the next, and you think nothing of it.

Your mother is buying outfits to wear to Wegmans.

You try to go out to dinner at 8:30 and everyone's already closed.

You hear that there's a "dome arena", but you're really disappointed once you see it.

They build a new store right in front of a vacant one of the same size.

Your low fat diet is never low enough to exclude an Abbotts custard.

You order a white hot and a pop, and the counterman knows what you are talking about.

You can travel from Egypt to Greece in about a half hour by car.

D&C is a newspaper, not a medical procedure.

You find a metered parking spot downtown at the height of the Christmas shopping season.