My dad sent this to me earlier this evening and couldn’t resist including this here…
Submitted by Anonymous –
+You have dedicated much of your life to supporting Pal’s.
+You know who Steve Grindstaff is and saw his extremely weird up wedding on TV.
+You or someone you know (a friend of a friend, maybe) knows What Mark Reynolds Did to that gerbil.
+You think it’s stupid that Central got out for “the race“ every year.
+The Microtel, and all that it entails.
+Friday nights=Fort Henry Mall.
+La Caretta is your Mexican food of choice
+You remember when there was ONE Wal-Mart, the Stone Gate Wal-Mart, and it wasn’t Super.
+Your parents don’t work at Eastman Chemical Company. They work at THE Eastman.
+If you ever went to ‘the beach’, nobody had to ask which one. Myrtle Beach is THE beach.
+You hated Carter County and all their snow days.
+You remember when they found the decapitated head in Boone lake…and you still went wake-boarding. Just like you did after they found pihranna.
+You don’t even bother trying Speedway in Lights because it’s too busy
+You took every field trip to Warrior’s Path and their awful playground (it’s better now, I know…)
+You remember when Fun Fest was in August and right before school.
+You shopped at the Food City in Green Acres when it faced in the other direction.
+You have either threatened to give or been offered to receive a “B-Town Beat Down”
+You groan every year that South and DB want to have a race war.
+Kings Giant Plaza FINALLY went out of business and you celebrated because they got rid of those endless commercials every year.
+You were kind of surprised to learn that Daniel Boone “blazed” Bloomingdale Pike
+You miss Joe Gong.
+You can recall Sharon’s opening and them actually building the building in secret where nobody could see it.
+You’ve been in an altercation with a golf club over an AFG medallion
+You wrote a letter to the editor about the year Fun Fest moved the fireworks and you couldn’t see anything.
+You don’t smell that funny Eastman smell anymore. It burned your nostrils years ago.
+Saturdays, 12pm. Sound the horn.
+You took your tricked out Civic to park sideways at the Beach Hut.
+You know that Purple Cow is worth the wait/danger.
+You actually went to Skate City but only realized years later the sleeze factor of that place.
+You remember when Kingsport decided they only needed 8 minute evening news. And then that they should just shut down the news station
+You remember the original firework outrage being when they set off all the 4th of July fireworks at five in the morning.
+You’ve ever wondered.. “if the Big Pal in Lynn Garden and the Indian from Pratt’s BBQ had a fight, who would prevail?”
+If you went to a city school you were upset you didn’t get out for snow. If you went to a Sullivan county school, you laughed at the city kids as you went back to bed.
+Once you got a license Friday nights=Johnson City (better restaurants)
+You’ve done the Sensabaugh Tunnel thing….more than once.