– no matter where you are, you can hear the sounds of race cars zooming by every year during the indy 500
– “I’m from carmel,” they say. you back away slowly
– your dreams are haunted by the voices of courtney cole and monica peck the sisters of savings from hare chevrolet. you have never gone a day without hearing them
– somehow a mike pence must go sign ended up in your front yard. you’re not sure how it got there, but you’re not going to move it
– every time you refer to I-69, someone, somewhere, snickers
– every time it rains, chuck lofton and randy ollis get stronger
– a performer announces that they’ve got a show in indianapolis. you wonder what they want from you
– you have never understood the purdue vs IU rivalry, but damned if you wouldn’t kill for one or the other
– things haven’t been the same since tony dungy left. everyone knows it but no one talks about it