– July and August were the 2 months of the year you were cool.
– If stranded in the wilderness you would be fine because you know how to make a tee-pee fire and melt chocolate on Pita.
– You own socks with someone else's name on them.
– People know that when you say Mayo, you are discussing a maintenance person and not a jar of Hellman's.
– When you hear a particular song on tha radio you automatically sing the corresponding Hebrew lyrics from your Gesher play. In my case "M-m-m-My Sharona" will always be "Ha-ha-ha-haTorah"
– You go to the marp for a headache, you leave with an air cast on your ankle.
– Your proffered source of world news and current events is still last weeks newspaper. Did you guys know that Flyers got Eric Lindros?
– Softball players know that the second tree is fair, but only parts of the road are foul.
– You still feel it's totally appropriate to wear a batting helmet in public. (this also applies to construction helmets Abes)
– You harass anyone you meet from the Scranton or Binghamton areas with insane questions like "Do you ever go to the Long John Silver's on route six? How about the mobile home dealership?" (this one is true, a girl in my office is from Scranton and I constantly quiz here with trivia like – name all the stores in the $1.50 movie theatre shopping center in Eynon, PA?)
– Your idea of thoughtful gift giving is a Red Sox t-shirt .
– Appropriate bed-time stories for children are your own personal hook-up stories.
– You can be identified by the scar that every Ramanik owns. It's on the back of your upper thigh near where your butt begins and you received it when you sat on a bench that had a protruding nail.
– You dreamed of a hot staff member doing Hashkava for your bunk
– You've spent more than 2 hours in a Wegman's.
– Europeans are referred to as Camp America
– All of your friends have at one point hooked up, if it wasn't at camp ramah, it was at turkey trot
– People introduce themselves at camp by their first name and their job title as a last name. For example:
Avi Wood, Donna Switchboard and Doodi Rosh Sport.
– At camp, "Gold Bonding" is an acceptable practice in public.
– A meal consists of only pirogues.
– Siddur stacking and t'fellin wrapping are timed events.
– A cold shower in a stall with more than 4 people seemed natural.
– people de-brief about everything.
– The Salvation Army store is your chance to get a little attention for novelty.
– You still chuckle when you buy hot food in turnpike service station.
– You've made yourself rocky mountain toast for breakfast.
– You'd do anything short of murder to get your hands on a bag of pizza bissli.
– If you receive a package that has food in it, you marvel in your freedom to keep it.
– Otzar 15 minutes after the end of peulat erev is, like, something you can't even fathom.
– (you can fill in this line) You've tried every flavor of ____ at Jerichos
– You have items in your closet that you're still not sure where they came from (i.e., borrowed t-shirts, etc…)
– Your definition of a talent show is really a lip-sync
– You learned about disabilities by walking around camp tied to another camper
– You quiet down every time somebody raises their arm
– Pretending to sneeze can get you into big trouble
– Without a doubt every summer you fell in love with one of the CampAmerica Staff, primarily cause they weren't Jewish
– Quad parties were completely lame, that is until either Orlow or Menkowitz jammed out some G-Love Album. Then people got naked.
– You claim to have met G-Love
– You have hooked up with a Schaffzin brother
– You know Camp Lackawana, Pothole State Park, and Steamtown Mall like the back of your hand
– You've gone way beyond kissing at Kissing Rock
– You still seek out the most beautiful people to get a shabbos kiss, despite the fact that they are no where near your age category
– Your overly familiar with the abbreviation CSR
– You hate camp Lavi
– You've stolen excessive amounts of candy from the Chanutiah
– "Shabbat Morning" is synonymous with "play sports, jump in pool"
– You had this creeping suspicion that every woman rabbi, was a lesbian.
– The greatest sports glory days of your life can easily be summarized with the term "Ligote"
– You say you hated Rikudiah, but when you hear the songs today, you can't help but busting out a Brown rikude move
– You must add a clap when hearing this: "Mayim Mayim Mayim Hey Mayim Besasone"
– You still count in years in relation to your Gesher Summer
– If every actor can be connected to Kevin Bacon, Every ramahalumn can be connected to AJ
– Every hebrew word you know today is attributed to after meal announcements
– Two Words: Mar Milone
– Getting even one pair of matching socks returned in the laundry was nothing short of a miracle.
– The biggest adventure of a youthful summer was going to see how chicken's are koshered
– Your memories of color war (Macabee-ah games) include learning about Jewish holidays
– All of the kids you made fun of when you were little, were married before you
– It was the last time you really felt Jewish
– You attribute the development of your favorite characteristics about yourself to a small, Jewish, overnight camp in Lake Como, PA.
– Tylenol isn't something you take for a headache.
– You think the melodies of the Misery Choir of Death and Destruction on Tisha b'av are great, but that the weird practice of sitting on the floor on the bet am is a pain in the ass.
– You own ANYTHING with your own name on it.
– Resolving to make kashrut part of your life, you keep it for 3 days, and then rediscover your love for treif.
– No seriously. It's okay to swim in the lake.
– When watching Canoeing on ESPN2 you think "Pussies, why don't you try Mon-Gap?"