Oakville Mug

Top 30 reasons You know you're from Oakville when... 1. You have drunken stories about drinking in a park 2. You think it should be called Jokeville, or Tokeville or Cokeville 3. You will hang out til 4am at any place that is open 24 hours: Subway, Coffee Time, Tim Horton's, 7-11, or if nothing's open, pretty much anywhere in Bronte 3. Almost all of your friends, at one point or another, have worked at McDonalds, Wendy's or Tim Horton's 4. You can find people you went to school with at Sharkeys every Friday, or Big Bucks every Tuesday 5. You have to pass at least six Tim Horton's just to get to school 6. You never knew Oakville had a city hall 7. You constantly get stuck behind old people going 40 km down Lakeshore 8. You've met Donovan Bailey multiple times and you think he's a dickhead 9. You think there IS a difference between people depending on whether they're from Glen Abbey, Iroquois, South East Oakville or Bronte 10. No matter how much it sucked, every summer you'd go to the Waterfront Festival 11. You ever had your photograph in the Oakville Beaver 12. You remember seeing cheap movies at Encore Cinema off Kerr or the Playhouse on Lakeshore 13. You remember when Trafalgar Village Mall actually had stores in it 14. You remember when hanging out at Oakville Place was cool 15. You have an image for every high school: QE Park - not so bright kids; Blakelock - dirty, dirty Blakelock; Appleby - snob central; OT and Iroquois - since when do schools look like malls?; St. Mildreds – sluts who steal all the good boys; Loyola, St.Thomas - nice fucking uniforms guys!; General Wolfe - dumb asses, White Oaks - who the fuck goes there? 16. You hung out at Maple Grove plaza or Oakville Town Center when you were in grade 9 17. Some of the funnest moments of your life are running from cops after a bush party through the ravines 18. 'Downtown' meant Starbucks, White Oak for the greasy spoon goodness, Whats the Scoop for desert or the Kings Arms for beers 19. Part of your Christmas ritual involves driving by the house where they filmed "The Santa Clause" with Tim Allen 20. You've ever bought pot from a Wendy's/Tim Horton's drive thru 21. You're perplexed as to why the Blockbuster Video/Coffee Time parking lot on Trafalgar is such a gino hotspot 22. You played hockey at Maple Grove Arena 23. You tried to find the Olsen twins in the summer 24. The people who live next door to you own either a BMW, a Mercedes or a Lexus (most likely one of each) 25. You have “slutted” people from your friend’s car along the Lakeshore 26. You have been drunk in Sobeys…. more than once. 27. To you the “ghetto” means Kerr Street 28. You used to go to Midnight Madness with your parents, now you go with your friends…drunk. 29. You’ve seen someone in grade school carrying a Louis Vuitton purse and the ..1 give away that you're from Oakville... You've used the word 'CHATE' in a sentence