Yesterday night over dinner, the few of us ex Glaswegians (if we can call ourselves that) suddenly got to talking about our time back in the ‘dear green place’ . We recollected various memories about our significant 12 months over in that place; the discussion started with the food (obviously), then proceeded to the places, the weather and gruesome exams, with random events that defined the year peppered in between. We noticed how the memories circa 2005-2006 were fast evaporating from our minds, as we struggled to recall street and food names.

Later that night, I decided to join my uni’s alumni group on Facebook, with which had a group called “I miss Glasgow” at its related group. The name of the group was downright cheesy and a little pathetic if I may add, but I clicked on it nonetheless.
Its description had a checklist of things you’d probably have done as an honourary Glaswegian of a semester or two. To those who were there, exactly how Glaswegian are you?
Which ones can you check off the list? Or would like to add?

The ones in bold are the ones I checked

• You know who N.E.D.s are (Lacoste! Fred Perry!)
• You know all about Posh & Becks, Jordan and other UK celebs from the tabloids (Dont care for celebs)
• Knife stabbings are normal in the news
• You stopped using an umbrella because it was ALWAYS raining
• You ate an entire pack of Digestives in one sitting
(I miss chocolate hobnobs)
• You knew who Snow Patrol, James Blunt and the Streets were WAY before all your friends back home did
• You know the proper way to pronounce the “Garage”
• You use the words “cheers” “hiya” “lift” and “queue”
• OK, Hello and Heat became substitutes for the American television you left behind
• You know what kind of music Orson plays
• You chatted with Dawn and Gary at the cart at 4 a.m. (wtf?)
• -You ate chips on the street in the middle of the night (I really miss this)
• You had to walk down a huge hill to get to a computer with internet (N/A not applicable)
• You had to walk up a huge hill to get home (it’s only bad when you’re tired or with groceries)
• You partied at the QM and the GU (We only went to the Student Union and b-lo)
• Your clothes smelled like smoke after using the dryers (This never happened fortunately!)
• You know what “Cheesy Pop” is ( I know it’s stuff I never want to dance to ever again)
• You studied in Offshore (N/A)
• You watched football in a pub (Hmm, we never did this)
• You rode the orange subway in a circle all over the city from Buchanan to West End (for Malaysian food!)
• You tried to play beer pong without Solo cups (wtf?)
• You drank Strongbow, Guinness and almighty Irn Bru (No one forgets IrnBru and its horrible colour!)
• You went grocery shopping at a Shell station (N/A)
• You ate cheap sandwiches from Gregg’s
• You rode the creepy Prestwick bus at 1:00 a.m. (We took trains, tqvm.)
• You checked the pound exchange rates daily (Amen to that.)
• You were scared to run under the river Kelvin bridge
• You had random/memorable coversations in black taxis
• You drank whiskey and ate haggis on Burn’s night (Wish I did)
• You got used to seeing bagpipers downtown
• You danced to the Baywatch theme song (Ew cheesy pop)
• You watched Big Brother, hated Nikki and loved Pete
• You knew not to walk though the park at night
• You’ve tripped on Sauchiehall street at some point
• You played in the snow after Glasgow’s huge storm
• You milked the Scottish education system for all it’s worth (Untrue. We paid through our noses for it.)

  If I may also add:
  

• You bought reduced price food for 16p in Co-op.
• You never bought a single issue of The Big Issue from the homeless fellas outside Tesco.
• You bought an instant barbecue set when the sun came out in May
• You got used to the drunkards singing outside your room at 4am on a weekday.

And despite all the little things, you LOVED IT and you’d go back in a heartbeat