You Know You're From Manassas When...

By Contributor

June 13, 2011

It seems like mach1mustanggrl spends a lot of time in her car. But judging by her username, at least it sounds like a nice car. —Sparkitors

Manassas is a suburb about 20 minutes (with no traffic, which never happens) away from Washington DC. You know you're from Manassas when...

you and most of your friends have no idea what your parents' do for a living because it's "top secret government work."
your school is overcrowded by 1,000 kids and you can barely walk in the hallways, but the school continues to admit more students anyway.
you take a major highway to school (95, 66,28, etc).
you constantly complain about there being nothing to do, even though you are right next to DC.
when people ask where you're from, you tell them "DC" because it's easier to explain.
you don't actually call it Manassas, it is referred to as either Manasty or any of a number of innapropriate nicknames that involve body part.
it's not actually tailgating unless your bumper is touching the car in front of you.
a yellow light means at least five more cars can get through, a red means two more can.
you have over 500 students in your graduating class.
the sight of brand new BMWs, Lexi, Acuras, Mercedes or other luxury cars in the student parking lot doesn't phase you, but the teacher's cars are worth three times less.
there are at least three malls and six Starbucks within 20 minutes of your house.
an inch of snow and you miss three days of school, 1.5 inches and you miss a week.
a rich white kid driving a BMW while blasting rap music is a common occurrence.
you call things "ghetto" even though the rest of the country would consider it high class.
there is still traffic when you're driving on the beltway at 2 a.m. on a Tuesday.
Crown Victoria + Large antennas = undercover cop.
a slow driver is someone who isn't going at least 10mph over the speed limit.
the transportation system is known as the Metro; when riding in the morning, it is prohibited to speak.
you've taken a wrong turn somewhere late at night and ended up in North or South East DC.
someone has honked at you because you didn't peal out the second the light turned green, and you've honked at someone for the same reason.
rush hour lasts all day; you don't go on 66 or 95 unless you absolutely HAVE to.
for the cost of your house, you could own a small town in Iowa.
if you stay on the same road long enough, it will eventually have 3 different names.
you have to dial the area code to call your neighbor.
you refer to distances in minutes, not miles and it takes you 30 minutes to drive 10 miles.
when you put on your turn signal to change lanes, the people next to you speed up.
when the cops know which party your going to before you do.