You know you’re from Sussex when…

1 You’ve tasted the egg water from the horse trough on Church Ave.
2 You think Frenchy’s is a good place to buy clothes
3 You know who Mike Eagles is even though you don’t care about hockey
4 You like following the Sunbury trucks on the highway because they smell
like a pine air freshener
5 You had your graduation in a arena what was 40 degrees and smelled like
cows from the cow plop bingo the weekend before
5 You know what cow plop bingo is
6 At least one bay at the car wash is coated with mud from hicks washing
their trucks after muddin’
7 You have to drive to Saint John to see a movie
8 You don’t even look up when theres hot air balloons up
9 You have had a hot air balloon land on your property
10 You learned how to drive from Cliffs Driver Training
11 You know how to pronounce Apohaqui
12 You know to stay away from town during Balloon Fiesta and Flea Market
weekends
13 You couldn’t understand why Sussex needed 2 Tim Hortons but now can’t
imagine having to drive “downtown” to get a Tims
14 Know once in awhile the Gateway mall becomes a showroom for tractors,
lawnmowers, 4 wheelers, snow mobiles, this means a good day
15 You’ve gotten a haircut from Art
16 Beeped your horn in a covered bridge
17 Have had a tourist ask you where to find a covered bridge
18 Know what potash is
19 Wonder how AM 590 stays on the air with its 12 listeners
20 Know who Jamie Roach is
21 Know you don’t go down Park St on cattle auction day at the CO-OP
22 Know its summer when the town puts the walking bridge in by 8th Hussars
23 Have picked and/or eaten fiddleheads
24 Glad when the back roads finally get graded in the spring
25 Have slid bass-akwards down the back way up Marshall Hill from Drury’s
cove road.. the sign said road closed for the winter but how bad can it
be..
26 Know that 25% of the cars in Sussex are Sunfires
27 Are not surprised to be following a truck with a dead deer hanging out
of it (see loser laps)
28 Have done or know what loser laps are
29 Know that most weeks the Canadian Tire flyer is thicker than the Kings
County Record
30 Buy the Record just for the courts section to see who got caught DUI
this week
31 Have had a conversation interrupted for 5 min at Sullies while a potash
train went by 10 feet away
32 Are surprised to see a ethnic or racial minority in town
33 Know that our garbage trucks are actually rusting, pieces of crap
pickups with a plywood box the size of a house built on top
34 You believe that if you looked you’d find beaver pelts still for sale at
Moffats Hardware from when they opened 200 years ago
35 You can’t believe that town worker that looks like Moses/ZZ Top gets
paid to stand with a stick and water the flowers all day
36 Know that a status symbol isn’t a Mercedes or a BMW but a diesel GMC or
SuperDuty, if you really want to impress mount a plow on front and put your
new snowmobile in the back (see loser laps)
37 You know the dimensions of a stacked cord of wood
38 Have driven to SJ b/c you’re bored even though its a snowstorm and you
have to drive with your head out the window to see the snowbanks and where
the road is
39 Know that there are more obese people per capita in town than anywhere
else, usually wearing tight jogging pants. (No wonder they built a Wal-Mart
40 Have a mail lady who can drive her Suzuki Sidekick while sitting in the
middle controlling shifting, gas, brakes, and steering with one side and
chucking mail with the other side
41 Have seen two old people sharing a very small powered senior cart
driving down Main Street (true story)
42 Remember the apple wars in high school on the soccer fields, reminisant
of the movie Braveheart
43 Know everyone by their car