You know you are from South Louisiana if . . .

CHALLENGE:  Parsley at Seasons of my Mind shared You know you are 100% Oklahoman if . . . and inspired me to share this list.  Are you inspired to share your list??
So  here it goes . . .

You know you are from South Louisiana if  . . .

• You know the rain forest is less humid than New Orleans
• You like your poboy with debris
• You have ever spent 12 hours to drive 80 miles
• You know what a mirlton is and what to do with it (and have it growing in your backyard)
• You schedule events around the football schedules of the Saints and LSU
• You think purple, green and gold go together
• You "suck the heads and bite the tails"
• You had to reschedule the same birthday party TWICE due to hurricanes
• You can properly pronounce Lafayette, Bossier, Natchitoches, Opelousas, Shongaloo, Pontchartrain, Ouachita, and you know that New Orleans doesn't have a long "e" sound anywhere in it
• You think people who complain about the heat in their states are sissies.
• You cringe every time you hear an actor with a Southern or Cajun accent in a "New Orleans-based" movie or TV show.
• You know everything goes better with Tony's or Tabasco.
• You ever had to switch from heat to AC in the same day.
• You use "fix" as a verb. Example: "I am fixing to go to the store."
• You know only four spices: salt, pepper, Tabasco, and Tony's
• You read a local newspaper that covers national and international news on one page, but requires six pages for local gossip and sports.
• You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas.
• You know all four seasons: shrimp, oyster, crab and crawfish.
• You know whether another Louisianian is from New Orleans, North Louisiana, or South Louisiana as soon as they open their mouth.
• You start every conversation with "How's ya mamma and dem?"
• You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good gumbo weather.
• You consider fried catfish is the other white meat
• You reinforce your attic to store Mardi Gras beads.
• Your sunglasses fog up when you step outside.
• Your ancestors are buried above the ground.
• You take a bite of five-alarm chili and reach for the Tabasco.
• You sit down to eat boiled crawfish and your host says, "Don't eat the dead ones," and you know what he means.
• You don't learn until high school that Mardi Gras is not a national holiday.
• You push little old ladies out of the way to catch Mardi Gras beads.
• Little old ladies push YOU out of the way to catch Mardi Gras beads.
• You leave a parade with footprints on your hands.
• You believe that purple, green, and gold look good together.
• Your last name isn't pronounced the way it's spelled.
• You know what a nutria is but you still pick it to represent your baseball team.
• No matter where else you go in the world, you are always disappointed in the food.
• Your town is low on the education chart, high on the obesity chart and you don't care because you're No. 1 on the party chart.
• You know that Tchoupitoulas is a street and not a disease.
• Your grandparents are called "Maw-Maw" and "Paw-Paw."
• Your Santa Claus rides an alligator and your favorite Saint is a football player.
• You have to reset your clocks after every thunderstorm.
• When it starts to rain, you cover your beer instead of your head.
• You eat dinner out and spend the entire meal talking about all the other good places you've eaten.
• You know what is meant by 'K&B purple
• You know what it means for food to come 'dressed'...
• You 'ax' for things...
• You know how to 'make' groceries
• When you ask people where they went to school, they answer with their high school
• You save newspapers, not for recycling but for tablecloths at crawfishboils
• Drive-thru daquiris -- it's not drinking and driving until you put the straw in.
• You stand on the neutral ground at parades and have no idea what a 'median' is