You know you’re from Canandaigua when:

1. No one has any idea how to pronounce your town’s name
2. We don’t have an accent, you do!
3. No one believes your town actually exists
4. For the rest of your life when you see the initials “CA” you automatically think “Canandaigua”
5. You knew how to spell “Canandaigua” before you learned how to spell “banana” correctly without sounding it out
6. Your town is ranked one of the Top 10 coldest places in the nation every winter
7. Kids in other states who had only a dusting of snow have their schools close for a week but your town gets 3 feet of snow and your still having to walk, drive, or bus your way to school
8. You can drive 65mph without flinching in 3 feet of snow
9. It can be –20 degrees one day and 70 the next and no one thinks anything of it
10. 99% of accidents are caused by deer, not snow
11. There are two kinds of drivers in your town, those who have hit a deer and those who are going to
12. You had to learn how to drive before you were 16 because your friends lived on the other side of the county and your parents didn’t want to drive your butt to see them
13. You tried to find different routes to get to the mall or to the city and when you did, you timed yourself and every time tried to break your own record
14. At any given time you can find 20 cops on 332 because they have nothing better to do then enforce the 30mph speed limit
15. Your town has an equal number of bars and churches
16. You know what “Ra-cha-cha” means
17. “The city” to you means, “Rochester”
18. The weekend hangout spots are: other people’s homes, Denny’s, Wegmans, the movies, the Pier, and that’s about it
19. You spend the first 18 years of your life wanting to get the heck out of town and vow you’ll never come back
20. In the summer, you spent your time on the Lake with friends
21. When you hear the term “Ring of Fire” you don’t think “Lord of the Rings”
22. Hands down the colors of Fall on the Lake is the best in the State
23. You know what the Finger Lakes are and where they’re located on the map
24. You know what the heck the meaning is behind those merry-go-round horses around town (if you don’t, Ask your parents)
25. You know what a “red hot” and a “white hot” is and can’t believe you can’t order them anywhere else in the country
26. There are sometimes more tractors on the roads then cars
27. Anything past Pennsylvania is considered “down south”
28. Some of your greatest memories as a teen were spent on the lawn of the FLCC Amphitheatre with friends
29. You find out there’s a Wegmans being built in your city three states away and start telling all your friends and neighbors about how it is the “Mecca of all grocery stores”
30. You go out of your way when you’re out of state to show your friends that the infamous Wild Irish Rose and Arbor Mist is bottled in our town (to prove the town’s existence).
31. For the rest of your life when you hear the “Star Spangled Banner” you will always want to yell “Braves” at the end.
32. You have kids of your own and finally realize…it wasn’t so bad after all…in fact, it was a pretty cool place to grow up.