-you heat the coffee mug before pouring your coffee
-you brew your own coffee at work
-…from fresh ground whole beans
-…stored in a climate and humidity-controlled environment
-…in your own coffee maker
-you refuse to patronize Starbucks since they simplified their daytime brew offering.
-…and you know the name of this blend (Pike Place)
-”fair trade” and “local” refer to flavor more than principles.
-your average cup of brewed coffee costs you more than the average person pays for three pounds of coffee.
-rim staining foam.
-you shudder when you hear someone say “expresso”
-your coffee is roasted in smaller batches than the average grocery store has on their shelves at any given time.
-you have two blade grinders as emergency backup for your burr grinder.
-you have ever used a thermometer when making your coffee.
-you have brewed coffee using methods from more countries than you’ve actually been to. (Turkish, Cuban, French Press, Vietnamese Press…)

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• you know what “call you for it” or “choose you for it” means.
• you get scared when a stranger randomly starts up a conversation with you.
• you can’t stand leaving the city because people everywhere else are so nice, it’s annoying.
• you curse….a lot.
• you believe that if you’re not from the 5 boroughs, you’re not really from New York.
• you never call it Manhattan, you call it “the city”.
• you love, not like, Billy Joel’s music (and you know all of the words).
• you leave and miss it…but when you’re there, it sucks.
• you’ve actually eaten a “dirty water dog” and pronounce it dawg, not dog
• you know what a squeegee guy is.
• police sirens don’t effect you anymore.
• you show your middle finger at least five times a day.
• the word off comes out sounding like awff… instead of Parking the car…..You pock the caw. (visitor submission)
• you can drive your car in rush hour while applying make-up, shifting gears, talking on a cell phone, honking the horn, and flipping someone off all at the same time.
• you really don’t get what a “Big New Yorker” or “Brooklyn-style” pizza is.

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1. You hear a phrase and can tell which musical it came from.
2. You hear a sentence in a song, and you can’t help, but to sing the rest of the song.
3. You know all the dance steps.
4. You do all the Dance steps.
5. and sing, You don’t care who sees you.
6. You tell your friends a sentence, and ask them which musical, act, scene, song, it came from and which character says that line.
7. You own more than 2 musical soundtracks, and they are so worn out, you have to replace them every 5 years.
8. You sing instead of speaking. (constantly)
9. You know “Timing is Everything” even in every day life.
10. You name your pets and kids after characters on your favorite musicals. (my cat is named Roger, from Rent)
11. You suggest at least 2 different musicals you want to see put on stage in your community theatre, and you want to direct it, and you already have a good idea how it’s going to look on stage. And you have a basic idea who are going to be your cast and crew, for every role.
12. You are involved in 3 different community theatres, because each theatre has musicals different times of the year, so you are always involved in a musicals all year round. (no straight plays for you)
13. You get annoyed when someone doesn’t sing the correct lines, and you try to help them learn it correctly.
14. Every Halloween you are a character from a musical, and get offended if people don’t guess correctly, and if they Have no clue what that musical is after you tell them.
15. You love to tell people your version of the Synopsis.
16. You know what a Synopsis is.
17. Your synopsis even include the words to every song.
18. and who sings them.
19. People run and hide if you say the word “Synopsis”
20. You think $60 for a broadway ticket is worth it, and would pay again, within the same year. (especially your favorite musical)
21. You have a website decicated to musicals.
22. You have ONE website PER musical. (with links)
23. You start your own Musical update Emailing list, and get upset when no one has joined, since you put it up a year ago.
24. You don’t understand how other people can’t appericate GOOD music.
25. People don’t understand how you can stand GOOD music.
26. You get offended by that remark.
27. You take a charter bus with everyone in your commuity theatre to go to New York to see a Broadway Musical, and it’s been booked in a year in advanced.
28. You MAKE sure that trip to New York is planned out. (don’t want to miss that opportunity)
29. You cried when your Favorite musical doesn’t play on Broadway anymore
30. You get excited, because in a few years, you can have it put on in your own Community theatre. (look at #11)

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• you drink tonic.
• you know what a bubbler is.
• your family will disown you if you’re a Yankees fan.
• you think there’s no life west of 495.
• you know they’re called rotaries, not roundabouts or circles.
• you’re considered among the worst drivers in the country.
• you think 1-way streets are common everywhere.
• you know what a “buckner” is.
• there’s only 25 letters in the alphabet in your speech.
• you know what the Big Dig is.
• you knew Great Woods and the Garden.
• the words “Southie” and “Eastie” have some meaning to you.
• you know what the Beanpot is.
• you know what nationality predominates in the North End and Eastie.
• you consider Worcester and Springfield “cow pastures.”
• you know what the Central Artery is.
• you have to dial the area code just to call across the street.
• it doesn’t surprise you to see someone talking on their cell while drinking a coffee and driving with their knees.
• you can’t go more than a few blocks without hearing a horn beeped.
• it’s tough to break 40 due to the city traffic but you do it anyway.
• you know what the Monster is.

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