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20. You spend half your time at YISE and half your time
at KMS, but never seem to have a reason to go to SSJC (Kranz's) [What is
associate membership anyway?]
19. You try to go out Motzei Shabbos to Ben Yehuda, but find out it's already been taken over by UMD students
18. It always seems that New Yorkers who moved
"out-of-town" always outnumber the "natives"
17. You long for the days when the Hebrew Academy
played the Yeshiva and there would be riots after the game
16. You still bemoan the fact that JDS whipped the
Academy twice again this year by a combined total of 79 points (That center
musta been 6"9?!)
15. You wonder "What's really up in Baltimore anyway?"
14. You remember the days before Max's came in and there was a toy store
there and you always asked your parents to buy everything in the store but
then it couldn't compete (Stupid Toy 'R Us!)
13. You marvel every time you go to NY, Chicago, LA or
someplace with lots of restaurants and you say "I have a choice!"
12. It's Silver Spring in singular, not plural!
11. What is up with those speed bumps on Hermleigh?!
10. When is the Yeshiva gonna get that new building?
You'd think the trailers were only temporary but they've been there at least
15 years
9. At least when you go into a restaurant, you're gonna
know everyone there
8. You know you're always gonna leave a 8 AM to get up
to camp and still be the last ones there
7. You're the only ones who didn't take your class trip
to Washington, DC
6. For you, the rally in front of the Capitol was only
a Metro ride away (We should do that again)
5. We've got Michael Jordan, Jaromir Jagr and Mia Hamm
now but hardly anyone cares
4. You're embarrassed to say they have an annual
Kiddush in honor of the Yankees winning the World Series (Thank G-d not this
year!)
3. Only the Jews in the neighborhood have EZ Pass (I
wonder why)
2. You had secret service agents roaming around the
halls of the Academy (only for a year)
1. NachMoon bash (need I say more?)
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B. Barton... exiled in New Jersey
From
no. 18 works for Baltimore as well.
And another way to know you are from Jewish Baltimore: you remember
real coddies and egg creams at Hilltop, near Rabbi Green's schul
(sigh).
From
davethewave03:
1. You
know the owners of every single Jewish store and everyone that works
there.
2. You walk around in the streets on shabbat, even though there are
cars driving around.
3. You alwaya make it to every shul except Kranz.
4.You always try to make it home by the curfew on Friday night because
"it exists".
5. You can always walk by the park and see the Hebrew Academy dropouts /
Yeshiva students hanging out.
6. Everyone that walks in from Woodside or White Oak (the two W's) is
considered inferior.
7. When walking to shul you are greeted by people that go to the Yeshiva,
they walk in at 7 and leave at 1.
8. The Youth Minyans have more adults in them then kids (except Captain
Kranz)
9. The Yeshiva somehow has money to build something.
10. Some random rich guy builds his kid a school, yes he is inferior and
a White oak person...the stupidity.
11. Rabbi Lipman teaches at 3 different schools in one year...What???
12. Whether you have gone to Yeshiva or to the Academy, you've gone
through the Mr. Notes computer expereince.
13. You realize every house on Kersey is Jewish.
14. What is Kersey?
15. Why does Bromely start on one end and finish fof at teh end of Kersey
( they ran out of names)???
16. I live on Daffodil Lane and I am a guy...Don't ask...
17. You need to know Eli Zuckerman and at least one funny thing he did.
18. Every wedding you go to has Rabbi Anemer or Rabbi Bieler, but never
both.
19. Theres that random school on Kemp Mill road and no one really knows
what goes on there....
20. You've got the best friends living in the same 1 mile radius and you
know that everyone will always be buds...
From
--When people ask you where you went to highschool, you have to tell them
twice:
"where'd you go to highschool?"
"the yeshiva"
"right, but which yeshiva"
"THE Yeshiva"
--Sometimes you just pretend you went to the Academy.
--You've shopped at Hechts and Giant. You've also shopped at Peoples,
Highs, Hechingers, and rented movies at Errols.
--You've taken the "darnstown exit off of I-270, and made a left at the
light"
--You've called USA-1000 because "nobody boddahs me, EEedah!"
--You've gotten TMJ from Either Dr. Fenster or Dr. Kogod.
--You get your teeth cleaned at Dr. Tarrigan.
--Your highschool senior yearbook pictures were taken at Brookside Gardens.
--You've known at least one woman who's gotten her sheitel by Mrs. Lipman.
--You DON"T think it's weird that ALL the characters in the Yeshiva plays
were played by girls.
--Mrs. Spolter was once your teacher.
--You pretend that Steven Speilberg at your shul is NOT a big deal, and you
are sure to casually tell everyone you know that you saw him... though you
NEVER go to KMS otherwise.
--At least one person from your highschool class is married and lives in
University Towers or the Warwick.
--Almost everyone's phone number starts with: 593, 649, or 681.
--You've wondered what those five metal figures on top of Northwood high
school are supposed to be, anyways.
--You know at least one person who's gotten into a fender bender in front of
the nursing home at the arcola/university intersection.
--You think THAT is what chinese food is supposed to taste like.
--What's past Lovejoy, anyways?
--You remember when it used to be "Wild World"
--Mervis, Mervis Diamonds
--You can hear WTOP when you're talking on the phone.
From :
-you arrive at school dressed in casual clothes, only to find that
every1 else looks like they're going to a funeral.
-your idea of going to shul is arrivng at 11am,stand in back for 3
minutes,hanging out in the bathroom, and coming out for kiddush.
-your idea of a fun filled weekend is hanging out at the park.
-you know where the park is.
From Aaron Berger
I know you are a clueless Silver Springer when I hear you refer to Yeshivas
Ner Yisroel as "Nair"
From Noach Bernstein (Silver Spring High School Boarder '93-'96):
Seth and Isaac,
Its noach I have some additions to top reasons you know your from silver spring.
here goes.
- You always feel inferior to anyone who lives in potomac
- you know what "four corners" is
- You know that you can hang out in Wheaton Plaza with a yarmulka on ....if you wanna get beat up.
- if your from Kemp Mill than you automatically are superior to anyone from White Oak.
- At sixteen your used to speeding home twice the speedlimit in order to make the midnight driving curfew.
- you know to stay away from kemp mill park after dark.
- you know to go to kemp mill park to buy drugs.
- If you are an out of towner attending high school in Silver Spring than you are either barred from talking to the opposite sex =Yeshiva High, or considered a
"badass" by the community= Hebrew Academy.
- Cevy Chase is neither an actor nor a bank.
- You go to the Hebrew Home Cafeteria to get the cheapest kosher steak sandwhich in America.
- and Finally.... Nuthouse Pizza is always the first and last place you go on a Saturday night.
From Daniel Kerchner:
- Every time you drive by a trailer park, you think, "Hey, is that a
yeshiva?"
From Yanky:
-Blinking traffic lights at 10:00 P.M is normal to you
-You're a 15 minute drive from DC, and though you know your way around 16th street perfectly you've never actually been inside a national monument
-You know someone who has been in Max's/Shalom's basement. and yes they do connect
(theres a whole bakery down there)
-You have heard Shakett refer to Israel as Palestine
-You know who Shakett is
-Max's = Best Shwarma in America!!
From Yehuda Avrunin:
You will commonly drive to a chassuna in New York and back on the same day.
You wonder why your friends in New York don't do the reverse.
"Dining in the city" means eating in the lobby of the DC-JCC (where have
you gone L'Etoile?).
Most of your out-of-town friends (like those in New York) think you live
in "Silver Springs", and the rest just say you live in "Baltimore" (it's
all Maryland, right?)
While Sienna's and Ben Yehuda actually make edible Pizza, you still prefer
Nuthouse (what's with you people?)
You wonder if there really is a secret passage between Shalom and Max's.
In a town with 2 Jewish bookstores, if somebody tells you to go to "The
Jewish Bookstore", you know what they mean.
You brush with celebrity entails spending Shabbos in Georgetown and seeing
Joseph Lieberman (or Shabbos in Potomac and seeing Nat Lewin)
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