You know your from Virginia Beach when....

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you know you're from virginia beach when...you say you're from "the beach" or "vabch"

you just call it "the boulevard."

the word "weak" means "funny."

jet noise doesn't interrupt your conversations.

you don't think you have a southern accent.

you begin every sentence with "dude."

you shake your head when someone calls it "boogie-boarding."

the worst cut down in middle school was to be called a "poser."

you know what 422-8823 is.

you're at the beach during a hurricane.

you've ever bleached your hair.

you can spot a navy squid from a mile away.

you've been up in the jewish mother.

you've snuck into the old cavalier hotel pool.

you haven't been to "wild water rapids" in years.

your high school is smaller than the junior high school they just built next door.

you call it "gang run" instead of "green run."

you call t.c.c. "virginia beach university."

you think a t-shirt, shorts, and flip flops are proper attire in february.

you've ever owned a beach-cruiser.

you vacation in nags head.

beach week is every week for you.

you think nova kids are a little weird.

you know that volcom is a brand, not some guy from star trek.

you know that hurley is a brand, not some generic harley-davidson.

guy's volleyball doesn't seem that strange to you.

you know what a gerard golden is.

you've ever used a fake i.d. at the pour house.

you've spent time at coney island games waiting for your movie at pembroke.

you remember the mini-epcot center at the beach.

you know "chick's beach" is a misnomer.

you know the haunted fun house looks cooler on the outside than the inside.

you know what dome shots are, and you would like some of them in the near future.

you've seen rudy from survivor in farm fresh, buying beef jerky and tampons.

you actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from virginia beach.

Specializes in GI,Rehab, Ortho/Neuro.

Can't remember the phone number- Dough boys, Y not, or Bamboo hut?

It's been a while:clown:

Specializes in CVICU.

the really sad part is this all rings a bell to me...

Specializes in Peds Cardiology,Peds Neuro,Pedi ER,PICU, IV Jedi.

OMG that's too much

I misssssss the beach!!!!

vamedic4

left Va. for Tx...and now I'm landlocked..ugh

You might be from Virginia Beach if you know that 2 roads named the same may never meet.....think Kempsville, Princess Anne

You don't wear socks with your shoes....even in the wintertime

You know what Pleasure House Rd used to be or how Witchduck got its name.

Specializes in Geriatric and now peds!!!!.

or you laugh everytime you go down the blvd to the oceanfront and see the chinese restaurant with 428-chop on the side of the building.

You remember when locals were actually allowed to cruise the strip on the weekends

When Pungo used to be nothing but farmland and a few houses.... sigh

Wendy

LPN

Specializes in Geriatric and now peds!!!!.

one more... you know youre a local when....

You used to go see the Violent Femmes everytime they played at the Boathouse....

Wendy

LPN

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