you know you're from burlington when...
1. You have drunken stories about Spencer Smith or McNichol Park
2. You've ever been to all-ages night at NRG, the Formac or the YMCA
3. More than once your elementary school field trip was visiting Joseph Brant museum or Mountsberg Conservation Area
4. You will hang out at 4 am at any place that is open 24 hours: Shopper's Drug Mart, Ultra Mart, Tim Horton's
5. You became excited when McDonald's became 24 hrs
6. You know there IS a difference between people depending on whether they're from Milcroft, Aldershot, Lakeshore, or east of Appleby
7. You take pride in Finger 11 and remember when they were the Rainbow Butt Monkeys
8. You've gone to a Rainbow Butt Monkeys show
9. You take pride in Boys Night Out and Silverstein
10. You've seen them each more than 5 times before they were "famous"
11. The highlight social event of your teenage years was the Sound of Music Festival or YouthFest
12. You know that Halton used their newly bought helicopter to chase a guy from the Vortman's factory after he stole a box of cookies
13. You've had your photograph in the Burlington Post, Spectator, or Journal
14. You can name all the bars that are decent to visit using only one hand
15. You have an image for every high school: Central-drama kids, Nelson and M.M.-jocks and snobs, Assumption Notre Dame - slutty Catholic girls and boys, Aldershot Pearson- who goes there anyway? and Bateman - rejects from every other school
16. You remember when the Burlington mall was the cool mall
17. You know that Appleby Mall is for old folks and the only people who go there are the elementary kids for lunch (Pineland, Frontenac, Assencsion) and the occasional kids from Bateman, but it's Bateman, they are rejects anyway!
18. You remember when hanging out at Mapleview was cool
19. You take pride in Ikea
20. You've hung out at Eastway, Roseland, Lakeside or any other plaza
21. 'Downtown' means No Frills, Spencer Smith Park
22. You've been to bush party in Sherwood Park, the Pineland park (drug rock or the tree house)
23. You've gone to RibFest even if you weren't going to get ribs
24. You always refer to the city as "Borington"
25. Part of your Christmas ritual involves driving by the Spruce house in front of Tuck.
26. Two words: Roller Gardens
27. When Tuck had a small fire in one room, you found out that night.
28. You're not afriad to wander around aimlessly during the middle of the night.
29. You know that a good time for straight teens involves going to Famous players, the Putting Edge, Williams and or Indigo (all in the same visit)
30. You know that a good time for the stoner kids is hanging out near Pineland, Sherwood or by Maple Ave smoking weed. Doesn't matter whether you hide it or not because the cops in Burlington are too damn lazy to care
-->for all these things, are sooo true, and burlington is BORINGTON!!!<--
-unless your drunk and hiding from your parents- rofl
ToXXic Butterfly Community Member 
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