5. You’ve pre-gamed a concert in the PNC Bank Art Center parking lot.
In its hay-day, it was the biggest public drinking event in Jersey.
6. You think you’re a lot tougher than you really are.
We like to talk a big game.
7. You’ve explained what WAWA is and why it’s superior to any convenience store chain in the continental United States.
8. You’ve mastered the art of driving extremely aggressively at 90 mph while staying as calm as a Jersey cow.
9. You have to explain, for the billionth time, that the cast of the Jersey Shore isn’t from New Jersey, and that their existence is a blight to our already tainted image.
10. You’ve argued over whether it’s called “pork roll” or “taylor ham”.
It’s pork roll in the southern part of the state; taylor ham in the north.
11. You’ve offended someone with your sarcasm and blunt honesty.
12. You realize you’ve spent more than half of your waking life in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
13. You wait every spring for the “Jersey Fresh” farm stands to pop up, and spend all your money on delicious, fresh, organic local produce and not regret it for a second.
14. You grew up going on school field trips to the Liberty Science Center.
It’s possibly heaven on Earth. 