You know you're from Mannheim, when …
- You understand "wääsch wiesch mähn".
- You've spent Thursday nights @ Schneckenhof.
- You go crazy whenever you hear "Meine Stadt".
- You hate Ludrüwwe.
- There is nothing special in having met Xavier Naidoo in Person.
- You love Engelhorn and always miss it whenever you go shopping in other cities.
- You know who "Christine Zehnbauer" is.
- You understand what Christine Zehnbauer says.
- You don't need to ask pedestrians where "S4 17-22" (or any other square) is.
- After a drunk night in a different city all you friends think that "City Döner" is the best restaurant of Mannheim.
- You don't smell the chocolate factory anymore or actually even like the smell.
- You have friends who live in Neckaraa.
- You have spent post graduate time @ Rheinterassen or Adria.
- Your driving instructor told you to slow down leading you into the city at Planetarium.
- You got problems with your drain and hope that Mompfred with the Bumbewasserzang has time for you.
- You know that ships can NOT pass the Suezkanal. Even if it will be reopened one day.
- You at least once felt like throwing a stink bomb into the MVV-building.
- You think "Fontanella" is the best ice cream in the world.
- You tell visitors: Do laaft de Negga in de Roi noi.
- You at least once sat beside the Blummepeeda (preferably because you were too drunk to get to Tiffany's).
- You feel like you have to explain everyone where the car has been invented.
- You loose yourself in all other cities.
- You have got pulled over for riding your bicycle in the city center …
- You know that "Mannemer Dreck" actually is something to eat.
- You always try to convince your fellow students of Mannheim's beauty, but they refuse to acknowledge it.
- You ask yourself where people from Heidelberg bought their driving license.
- You have a komischa Dialekkt, der wo iwerall uffalle duut.
- You understand the German text of Joy Fleming's "Neggabrigge Blues":
- It besser währ ruisch zu soi, du awwa trozdem die gosch uffmache dusch.
- When you understand "hammas".
- You finish your conversations with "Tschö" or "Alla mo".
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