U KNOW U R FROM LOUISIANA!!!!

Your sunglasses fog up when you step outside.

You reinforce your attic to store Mardi Gras beads .

You save newspapers, not for recycling but for tablecloths at
crawfish boils.

When you give directions you use "lakeside and riverside" not north
& south.

Your ancestors are buried above the ground.

You get on a green trolley car to go to the park and a red one to
the French Quarter.

You take a bite of five-alarm chili and reach for the Tabasco.

Every once in a while, you have waterfront property.

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.

Your house payment is less than your utility bill.

You don't show your "pretties" during Mardi Gras.

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 cringe every time you hear an actor with a Southern or Cajun
accent in a "New Orleans-based" movie or TV show.

You have to reset your clocks after every thunderstorm.

You're walking in the French Quarter with a plastic cup of beer.

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 actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from
Louisiana.

Man that was great. You guys are funny down there.

Those were great Nick!!!!!

Must be a fun place to live. I've always wanted to go to Mardi Gras.

Why does the waiter tell you not to eat the dead crawfish?

when you cook them their tails will curl under,, if the tail is sticking out that one was dead before he got dumped in the put and it will not taste good at all . the way they cook them is dump a hole bunch of live crawfish in a big pot of boiling water .

Oh, I see.

Why does cooking them alive make them taste better? I've always wondered that with lobsters.