Summer In Nahant, Some Aren't

YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM NAHANT WHEN:

1. You spend your every waking day at the beach in the summer
2. You remember the best part of park league was the gimp
3. At tennis lessons you really played crazy tennis, and the only thing you learned at sailing lessons was how to get into bailor fights
4. You've marched in the Horribles parade on 4th of July and won best costume
5. You outran the competition and won your age bracket at the 4th of July races, then won the 3-legged race and egg toss
6. You've jumped off the warf and hit ground when its low-tide
7. You know the water at 40 steps is always the coldest, but you jump off the rocks anyways
8. You finally became taller than Mrs. Silva
9. You've egged Mr D's house on a few different occasions
10. You competed in Mental Math with Mrs. Hennessey and lost
11. You've been covered in shaving cream outside of the haunted house at town hall on Halloween
12. You've played a game of peg 'em, suicide, outs, or larva monster at the playground
13. You know that Nahant Market is really called Logue's, Richland is still Richdales, and that no one calls it Seaside Pizza, its Captains
14. You've been chased thru the Tunnels at Bailey's Hill by the cops
15. You've been banned from Captains for at least a week
16. The best thing to do on a friday night was flashlight tag, even tho no one ever had flashlights
17. You remember how bright red Mr. Hurlihey's face used to get when he got mad
18. You know Mr Brown ruled the cafe at lunchtime and not to mess with him
19. Graduating 6th grade and leaving Nahant was the scariest thing in the world
20. You've walked up the hill to the Middle School because the Nahant busses couldnt make it up it in the snow
21. You've been dismissed early from school because the nahant causeway was being closed due to a nor'easter
22. You've been in a scuffle or 2 with the UPS guy
23. You've partied in the dory club after hours with your friends
24. You've got wasted at one of the Angiulo's parties and lived to tell the story
25. You know there's a huge difference between big and little Nahant
26. You truly believe the Gazebo on Maolis Rd is haunted by a witch
27. You think its funny that The Tides was renamed Beaches, Ocean's Edge, Mariah Bay, and then the Dockside, just to become known as Tides again
28. You grow up and you realize your biggest asset is having that Nahant Parking Sticker because there's no public parking anywhere!
29. You still get scared walking on the glass floors in the Nahant Library
30. You get wasted at short beach on 4th of July and make a fool of yourself in front of all friends parents, but you don't remember a thing the next day
31. The Lynn Item is just as good as the Globe or the Herald
32. You tell other people where you're from, and when they say they've heard of it, you freak out because no one's ever heard of Nahant before
33. Nothing is a secret, everyone knows everything about you. That time you got arested for drunk driving and providing alcohol to minors, or got suspended in high school or kicked out of college, or had your stomach pumped, or even when you stole that candy from seaside variety, we know all, news travels quickly in this small town
34. You are proud to yell HOOMPA even tho you have no idea what it means
35. You know it is really "paper, rock, scissors" and not "rock, paper, scissors"
36. The best part about your birthday was getting a "shot card" from Mrs. Stephens
37. You know that running around the gym 35 times is equivalent to a mile
38. You can give yourself a Super Silent Cheer!

39. And finally, you know you're from Nahant when "Summer in Nahant, Some Aren't"