You Know You Live in a College Town When...

[SNUIGC]

You know you live in a college town when...

- during the first two weeks and two weeks after move-in the city runs their garbage crews every other day, rather than once a week

- wal mart has every item you'd ever need for a dorm room out in the garden center, but nothing you'd ever use in an apartment

- the town's population rises by 60% when school starts

- the old people start complaining in June about how those "loud kids" will be back soon

- you see someone with another school's emblem on and know they're not from here

- there's already rumors floating around the town about which greek is going to get kicked off campus this year

[banditone]

During Saturdays in the Fall you put up your sign in the front yard: "PULL IN, $10 PARKING".

[neosoul]

everything stays open until 5am

[Still BLUTANG]

the campus shuttle route has a stop at your condo building.

everyone in your building is connected to the university (retired professors, students with deep pockets, admin, etc).

[SNUIGC]

You know people who went to elementary school, junior high, high school, and college within 10 miles of each other.

You know a person who's lived in the same town all his life and he got a PhD without ever having to leave.

[justabeachbrat]

Stepping into room...hello.

College town, signs posted by merchants: welcome back bulldogs.

[PGD-GRAD]

The local newspapers and merchant mailers are FILLED with coupons and handouts for pizza, wings, subs, fast food, etc. This begins in August and ends in June!

[Sciencewoman]

There's a plasma donation for cash place.