I'm 6'5, 297lbs. (no I'm not fat), half black half puerto rican, with NO KIDS, from Columbus, Ohio. I work full-time, full-time student, in school for criminal justice at Kaplan University. Guess you can say I stay busy. I love basketball. Big Piston fan. I don't really like football to much unless it's the Buckeyes or the Falcons playing. If you want to know anything else then just ask.
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You Know You're From Columbus, Ohio When...
"Vacation" to you means driving to Put-in-Bay or Cedar Point.
If you've got money, "vacation" means jetting off to the Gulf Coast to hang out with all your other Columbus friends in Naples or Sanibel.
You can tell from their accent if someone lives north or south of I-70.
You attended your senior prom only after a thrilling ride up the glass elevator to dinner at One Nation restaurant.
"Bahama Mama" does not refer to any song, movie, or Caribbean belly-dancer. It's FOOD!
You know what "Sliders" or "Belly-bombers" are.
The fact that the Dublin Irish Festival is in the fall and German Village Oktoberfest is in September seems perfectly normal.
Until like, a decade ago, the spiciest food you ever tasted was mustard. Now we've got Thai & Ethiopian cuisine, foods marinated in jerk sauce, and places that serve ostrich.
Prior to about 1990, your idea of "ethnic food" was either Irish or German.
You think you've seen real snow. Until you've spent some time in Cleveland.
You've done "Dime-a-Dog Nite" at Cooper Stadium, and caught the performance of some totally washed-up band from the 70s after the game.
You beam with pride that we're the hometown of Wendy's, White Castle, Cooker, Rax, Bob Evans & Donatos. But you wonder why we're the 8th fattest city in America.
You go to the Memorial at Muirfield just to see and be seen, and you've been rained on there at least once.
You know that there was actually a city full of people here before AmeriFlora '92.
You remember how exciting City Hall used to be in the days of Buck Rinehart. So what happened?
You remember the 1986 sinkhole on West Broad St. that grabbed national headlines by swallowing a brand-new Mercedes.
You spend at least 4 hours a day in traffic driving through orange-barrel hell.
You always cheer for the Buckeyes, even if you have no affiliation with the University at all, 'cuz it's the thing to do, Man!
You know how to pronounce "Scioto" and "Olentangy."
Nine out of every ten people you know, friends, co-workers, even your spouse or boyfriend/girlfriend, moved here from some place else!
You prefer your pizza cross hatched into a thousand little squares or other odd-shaped pieces, because the traditional pie-cut is just too ordinary.
You see nothing unusual about a street being called East North Broadway.
You can describe the subtle socio-economic differences among Bexley (old money), Powell (new money), and Upper Arlington (tons of money).
If you live in the suburbs, your backyard was actually a cornfield last year.
That complex on the corner, with the CVS, Frisch's, Blockbuster's and Big Bear, that was a cornfield last year, too!
As you lament the loss of all those cornfields, you see the infinite wisdom of Dublin City Council, who spent over $60,000 on a field of 10' concrete corn ears.
If someone says "Grove City" or "Groveport" to you, you laugh and think Grove-Tucky!
If they mention "Obetz," you just laugh.
Guys: You wishfully think all those Victoria's Secret models actually live here, just because the company's based here.
Even if you never go there, you'll boast about German Village and the Short North, because they're the city's best defense against the "Cowtown" stereotype.
There's always that nostalgic part of you that doesn't really mind the "Cowtown" image.
In 1992, you thought New Albany was the middle of nowhere andyou dismissed it as "Wexley." Now you aspire to move there after your next big promotion.
You see nothing odd about a city of 35,000 (Westerville) where it's illegal to sell alcohol.
Driving down Morse Road feels just like driving through a 1960s-time-warp version of Sawmill.
You remember your first trip to City Center and how cool having a downtown mall was, even though it looks more suburban than Easton
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