I'm not in New Jersey!

[QASlave]

I think I read somewhere that most of the eggplant grown in the US is grown in NJ. What a moron. I DIDN'T go to Yale and I can figure out which State I'm in.

[Jester]

Those of us who live in Key West are often amused by some of the tourists down here who, upon leaving downtown Key West (also called "Old Town") and being on the other side of the island (called (New Town) have said "Yeah, we just came here from Key West," apparently thinking they were in a separate town. Even though, of course, they are not.

So I guess you can drive for hours in the wrong direction, but it happens very rarely, or so I'd hope.)

This does happen. There are stories, some of them even true, about people doing crazy things like this. Like the person or people who drove from Miami to Key West, not realizing they were going to Key West, simply looking for another part of Miami. This is significant for a few reasons:
1. Key West is 150 miles from Miami,
2. there is only one road that covers the majority of that, as
3. it goes through the Keys with no alternate route, and
4. quite often throughout the Keys, there are those big green signs counting down the mileage to Key West.

Not as shocking, but just as amusing, are the people that have called various establishments I've worked at asking where we were, thinking that we were in some part of Miami. When told we were in Key West, it kind of shocked them. Though I have yet to figure out what listing they were looking at that made them think that a Key West restaurant or bar was in Miami.

Aw heck, by that logic, then I've been to Harvard, Penn State, Michigan State, Eastern Michigan, Ohio State.... geeze, I've been a busy guy!

Off the top of my head, then, I have been to Arizona State, Arizona, Florida State, Rutgers, Boston U., Catholic U., George Mason, Miami, Indiana State, USC, Washington, Texas, UCF, USF, and probably several others that I have forgotten. Not counting community colleges, of course.

"Garden State, sir. GARDEN STATE."

"Let them put it right on the license plates: New Jersey, The Toll Booth State. What does it say now? The Garden State? Sure if you're growing smoke stacks, yes!" --George Carlin

[Geek King]

You're all wrong. That SC was in the states of Denial, Delusion, and Overly Egotistical all at once. The Tri-state area, if you will.

[Argabarga]

Off the top of my head, then, I have been to Arizona State, Arizona, Florida State, Rutgers, Boston U., Catholic U., George Mason, Miami, Indiana State, USC, Washington, Texas, UCF, USF, and probably several others that I have forgotten. Not counting community colleges, of course.

You just jogged my memory, I forgot to add Annapolis! (U.S. Navy academy for those not in the know, that was the best field trip ever, got to see the insides of a nuclear sub)

[Captain Trips]

I'm sorry, I'm from New York and even I know there are fields in Jersey.

BUT -- having said that, I still say there's only one thing of any value in New Jersey. It happens to be 5'9", blonde, age 29, slim but not skinny, and very beautiful. But then again, I'm biased -- being her father!

(Yes, the New Yorker in me does feel shame that my daughter lives in New Jersey. But I live in California, so it really doesn't matter.)

[LadyAndreca]

*waves back* 153A here, but I used to live near your present location, just off Starin and Kenmore.

*waves at all theree of you* Exit 105 here.

[Fryk]

I used to live in Pennsville!! And yeah, outside the towns there, it's nothing BUT fields

[Jester]

BUT -- having said that, I still say there's only one thing of any value in New Jersey. It happens to be 5'9", blonde, age 29, slim but not skinny, and very beautiful. But then again, I'm biased -- being her father!

Nothing against your daughter--I'm sure she's a fine lass--but there are a few things of value in New Jersey. Not MANY, mind you, but a few:

--Amusement parks. They have a few really good ones there. Or did--I heard Action Park closed down a few years ago, but there is still Six Flags Great Adventure.

--the Jersey Shore. Ignoring that wretched television show, which has nothing to do with reality, the Jersey shore rocks.

--Jersey tomatoes. While I will take almost every opportunity to mock New Jersey and things of and from New Jersey, I must defend their greatest crop. There is no tomato on Earth that can compare with a good New Jersey Beefsteak tomato. The only people who have ever debated this point with me have never actually had a New Jersey Beefsteak tomato!

[Gaki]

I work in a convenience store and it's very very often that people ask me for directions and I can't tell them a damn thing. I have to drive nearly half an hour to get to my place of work, past the three closer stores in the chain, to get to the one that's on the edge of the next city over. So people will ask for a street or an exit and the only ones I can tell them are the ones coming from the direction I came from and no more past that.

Usually when they look at me funny I just raise my hands and say, "I don't live in this county." Then they kinda get a funnier look on their face and all I have to say is, "I live across the river." Then all is suddenly right with the world. I live in AMISH country, why in the heck would I possibly know anything about the world of "civilization?" They seem to believe that, with all that's in their hearts, that those who live "on the other side" can't know anything about this side. They'd be pretty much right...I know how to get to the McDonalds, the Beer Distributor, the SmartPet, and the Mart of Wal, that's pretty much it.

Then I direct them to the Deli workers who can give them proper directions because they live on the proper side.