Three Things Florida Gives You When Living There...
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- Returning to Florida soon reminds me why I left.
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I'm so excited for your Des Moines show. I have already bought tickets.
See you in KC!
Oh so close. Just a little further Northwest from Illinois 😂😂 just don't come to MN in the winter. I have relatives from Florida, and they were traumatized by our winters.
I do have to say tho, when a Minnesotan turns 60 they evolve into an old Floridian somehow. They lose the ability to handle the cold.
Come to Boston! Or at least new-england-ish! You're uniquely creative and absolutely hilarious, thanks for all the laughs!!!
“it gives you complex trauma”
*unanimous crowd cheering*
As a Floridian: yes.
As a Canadian, from what I see all over every media outlet, sounds like MOST of the USA is like that. I mean...2 words; School shootings. Congrats(I guess?) on being the only place in the world where that's a huge and constant problem
I can also confirm as a floridian sadly
Can confirm
I still love it. Being able to not care that there is a giant spider in the corner of my apartment because it is so low on the list of things to worry about is kind of awesome.
...safety levels are based on if your local waffle house is open
If that bish is closed better run
Dude Waffle House is an SCP. Like, if Waffle House is actually closed - not on a backup generator/limited menu, but CLOSED closed - run. It's not just run, but RUN time.
@@Loki_Knah, if the waffle house is closed, it's already too late.
I remember coming back from work one day in the middle of a cat 3 just sitting in a waffle house shooting the shit with the obviously stoned-as-shit cook while rhe wind was howling and people were suffering the cold wet wrath of god out side.
But we were safe. For inside waffle House there are no gods or kings. Only waffles and hash browns.
Man if waffle house is closed ur already dead
As a former waffle house employee, we worked through hurricanes. If we had power and the place wasn't waist deep in water, you kept working.
Yeah, I can get that last bit.
Hurricane could be uprooting everything in the neighboring towns, and the most Florida'll get outta me is a "Psh, not even a cat 3"
I live on the Texas coast and it’s the same here.
I used to deliver pizzas and once when a cat 1 hit the county just north of us, my boss made us come in because “we’re just on the wind side. It’ll be fine. Not like there will be any flash flooding this time. And think of all the money you’ll make being the only delivery drivers on the road!”
I ended up having to call and say I couldn’t come in because I literally couldn’t open the door of my house because the wind was so strong. It was blowing directly towards my house and even with 3 of us leaning on the door, it would just kind of wobble, but wouldn’t open even a little bit.
Boss asked if I had a sliding door or a window I could use. 🙄
Used to take walks in the cat 2's we had as a child. The nice breeze and cool rain felt real nice after a long season of heat
literally😭
Same and il easily sleep through it 2
Why did I read that in a Canadian accent
An end of the world movie based out of Florida would be classified as "Comedy" 😂
Or a documentary
@@rooster5man or both. Like Spinal Tap.
@@davidtuttle7556 I was thinking mockumentary too, like District 9.
Bruh, they wouldn't even notice, movie would be boring af
Your Florida jokes are by far my favourite, because like, you get it. Florida jokes from people not from Florida hardly resonate with me because there’s always a very surface-level understanding of how things actually are here, but yours always make me laugh because there’s nuance and truth to them. Thank you, fellow swamp creature!
The level of IDGAF is only matched by NYC. But even they will be wary of alligators on the street.
I honestly considered my reaction growing up in Florida, and I realized it would probably be "You're not supposed to be there little fella, hope you know yer way back..."
right? like, those are supposed to stay in the sewer.
Yah because they're supposed to stay where they belong - in the sewers. 😂 Seriously though your average New Yorkers IDGAF level is epically insane! I was visiting NYC for the first time & I saw a rat. Riding on the subway that was bigger than a Chihuahua & I started to freak out.
For context we *DON’T* have rats riding around on the subways here in Australia. Pigeons, sea gulls, cockatoos, magpies. The occasional random marsupial yes but rats no.
This guy who was sitting across from me looked up from his paper, looked at the me, then at the rat, then back at his paper. & when we pulled into the next station he literally stood up, grabed the rat by the tail. & yeeted it out the door onto the platform as the door closed. Then he turned to me & said *"So where are you visiting from then?"*
I asked him how he knew I wasn't from New York (thinking that maybe my pasport was showing out of my coat pocket) he laughed & said *"No New Yorker would've been freaked out by seeing a tiny little rat ridin' on the subway."*
I then further freaked out & said *"That's what you all consider to be a tiny rat here!?! Bloody Fucking Hell what size do you guys consider to be a large one then!?!"* He couldn’t stop laughing for the rest of the time he was on the train.
Lol I agree Florida sounds worse but the amount of times I’ve found a snake, scorpion, red wasp (that I’m allergic to), ect. in my house and barely had a second thought about it is crazy. That’s just growing up in the country for you though.
@@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 This has Australians and Huntsman Spider level of worry about it.
You don’t worry unless it’s a Mouse or Funnel-Web spider. And even then, so long as it’s not actually near you, it’s fine
That cheer after "Complex Trauma" 😅
That was us locals in Jacksonville agreeing with him. I was at that show.
As a native, multigenerational Floridian I can confirm this is unequivocally true.
We truly are the Australians of the U.S.😂
Basically how I felt when I moved back to FL after living there for almost 20 years of my life. First week, I loved it. After that I was like "Hm... I need to leave-"😂
I'm a Floridan and I was just nodding along with the whole bit. I was up in Virginia and there was a tornado warning and everybody at my publix was freaking out meanwhile I just sat there stocking shelves lol
The thunderstorm thing is both a blessing and a curse. I can sleep when others can’t, but then I also sleep when I shouldn’t because rain and Thunder are basically the world’s best lullaby
Yup.
I've always loved thunderstorms, even as a little kid. I remember once time in preschool during what was supposed to be nap time, every single other kid in my class was trying to climb into an adults lap and I was just laying on my mat enjoying the storm sounds.
That cheer at "complex trauma" had such "shoutout to depression" energy XD
I love how after he said about sleeping through thunderstorms, people were like: "Yeah", "Yup", "yeah" "yea".
I sleep through thunderstorms like an actual rock. It goes like this: level 5 hurricane, even waffle house is closed, no roof, and I sleep just fine.
I slept great through Ian!
@@TheLexzilla i was right on the eye wall, never slept better, i waited for the eye to mostly pass though so i could sit outside and record stuff while dodging deadly debris, also keeping an eye out for any windows breaking because they started breathing for a while
*Avenger Level threat happens in Florida*
Average Floridian: just another Saturday
Or a Tuesday
From HTX and when i was in the service most of my friends were from Florida, 2 Cubans 3 PR and 1 Haitian. 4 of us were from HTX area, 1 guy from NOLA. We had an incident happen that messed up most of the base mentally but we were okay. We had a LT come and ask us how we were doing and the confusion on his face was priceless. We each shared a hurricane aftermath story with him and he just nodded away but never spoke. One guy said mortars in a battlefield are a lot like tornadoes in a hurricane.
It's called healing. Puts things into perspective. Like having the first healthy relationship in a long time
So true about us Floridans having a who gives a crap attitude about things unless it’s doomsday on our doorstep and even then we might not care.
Try Australia. Lots of the trees are called "widow-makers". Even the plants are going to kill you, kinetically.
That is definitely true here after storms of all kinds.
You are right about being able to sleep through thunderstorms. I don't even get out of bed for a category 1 hurricane.
I worked through the last one lmao, no one closed for it even though we got hit directly with it
Can confirm, born, raised, still here.
I can’t describe how well you just explained how I’ve felt since I left Florida 😂
I love that everyone went “yep.. yep” after every one
As a Floridian, I can confirm, however I do suffer from mild astraphobia (fear of lightning) so if the lightning is *very* bad then I might not be able to sleep
If the lightning's bad I can't sleep. And I've never even visited Florida.
@@LKMNOPexept for the transformer out the window getting hit, my dad has slept through it. What woke him up a different time was the rain coming through where the roof used to be after the tornado. Typical rough weather in Missouri is that one song "it's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring" again.
Don’t go to Lake Maracaibo in Venezuela, then
Been struck twice. Gotta love St Pete.
Florida started reminding me why I left the instant I stepped out of the airport on arrival. 11pm and before my foot could hit the ground, I was hit by wall of humidity and rain, plus that uniquely Floridian smell...
Ah, you could wash your hair with the humidity
Go to the midwest, we'll sleep through anything, a nuke could be falling right on us and we would say "grab me a damn beer!"
I vacationed in Florida once for two weeks and can confirm after the first week I was ready to leave.
That complex trauma is spot on.
When Hurricane Ian came up the west coast.
A LOT of people left the State while I literally told everyone “pfft!!! Thing not even a Cat 3, maybe a 2. Just water and wind anyway”
All the while… thing was a Cat 5 and slow moving 😂😂😂
So, I got a cousin who moved to Florida a few years back. She sent me a time-lapse video wherein her and her husband went to a waffle house, she pointed her camera out the window and just recorded what happened outside during the duration of their meal.
After watching it all I could think was: "Oh. Oh... that's why they're crazy... it all makes sense now."
Funny you mention that. My dad and I were in Pensacola when there was a torrential thunderstorm. Power kept coming on and of every few minutes when we went to Waffle House. My dad and I got the chocolate creme pies from there because they could only do stuff on the flat-top or stuff that was already in the fridge. It was really bad going down I-10 on the way to Pensacola. Luckily, we had our F250 instead of our Explorer, which is much lighter because the winds weren't helping.
Crazy doesn’t even have to happen at Waffle House. I’ve seen stuff happen at 711s, on the road, at Walmart. It’s nuts here.
@@simplesimply3753 I know. It just so happened I had that story at a Waffle House. I didn't really even comment about it because of Waffle House.
I saw more crazy stuff when i was in cali
@@kiyosenl.3889
> doesn't even know what I saw from the land of bathsalts and eating people's faces.
> claims to have seen crazier in the land of fidget spinners and weed.
> refuses to elaborate.
> leaves.
Ok lad.
I feel this so hard... personally and professionally it was eye opening leaving Florida where I'd lived most of my life. When I go back I see and experience things and it makes me crazy again.
Native Texan who’s been living in Florida for about 8 months now, and I’m already so jaded. Someone tried to get over into my lane on top of me today, no blinker, nothing, and I was just like “yep, just a normal Thursday” 😅
Consider going home
Florida State Motto: "Come on vacation, leave on probation for solicitation, come back for violation."
Man, the more you talk about it, the more it reminds me how similar NY is. Like, I'm in the 'country' part of NY, you just described us.
“It gives you complex trauma”
Did your old Waffle House get sol/torn down?
Half of the restaurants in my hometown got shut down and they turned at the waffle House into a fucking car insurance place. I'm still salty about it 15 years later
Note that “complex trauma” received the highest level of applause
I feel so similar about living on the Texas coast.
I left once, then I stupidly came back, remembered why I left, but too late now I’m stuck here for the foreseeable future.
(Unless I want to move to Florida, which sounds very much like hopping out of the frying pan and in to the fire.)
Fun fact: Texas gives you two of those.
I believe it. There is no Disney in Texas.
I'm from Alabama and lived/worked in Florida for two years. It worried me how chill the "hurricane briefings" were. They were as if we were planning a block party or something. Even the "regular" weather had me like, "It's bright and sunny! How TF is it sprinkling from this one cloud too!?" Now back in Alabama, I barely look at the weather app anymore. I just accept whatever hits that hour.
It seems like a block party when hurricanes are coming because we board up all the windows and bust out all the liquor aka "hurricane supplies" and have hurricane parties.
Floridians having copd is no joke. I, myself, my sister, my mom, my late SO all have it.
I lost my SO last year in NM. I was all alone, traumatized, but still managed to make it back to family in Florida in a few months. People still don't know how I survived the shock and grief alone. I'm still dealing with it, but I have my Florida super power to process trauma...
I've had nearly every trauma imaginable. I'm not gloating. Just broken
Living in Florida builds character 😌
This is how I feel about Texas, I love my first home of Texas but it’s like visiting your in-laws, a week is more than enough for the year. -🥰 Texan turned Floridian 🥰🐬
It's been 20 years since I left Florida, and I still check my toilet tank for banana spiders BEFORE I sit down and I can't reach into a bag of cotton balls for the same reason. Thanks Florida. We don't even have banana spiders in Texas!!!
that last one is so true for Australians as well
we sarcastically say "she'll be right mate" in any somewhat dangerous situation
Houston also has 1 and 3.
Houstonian reporting in...
When Hurricane Alicia hit us, I went to wait for the school bus in the morning anyway.
I was in Florida for two weeks and within the first week of being there (i think the second day) a guy died near where we were staying because he fell asleep in his Tesla and it didn't autopilot properly. You don't even have to live there to get complex trauma.
Thats more of a tesla driver thing then a Florida thing
Lived in Florida for 6 years. Didn't want to leave but had too. I miss Florida. What he says here is true as. People here in Arizona call me crazy when they are freaking out and I'm just like...pssshh.
i love sleeping thru storms
To some people, Florida is a life sentence.
Got that failed assassination scar
“It gives you the ability to sleep through thunderstorms”
The Midwest: Oh look, Florida thinks it’s special
I mean… Midwest is the same about tornados 😂😂😂
I like his stand up, dude is hilarious. I'm going to Florida next month can't wait
As a flordian
I can sleep through storms
Never been to Disney (born here too)
And there's definitely been trauma
As a former Florida born and raised. Totally agree...
I went to a Miami vice themed shisha bar today. Not to smoke but to enjoy the fictional Miami vibes. Also, having lived in Florida makes it very hard to politely tell people why I will not swim in a river, lake, or pond without explaining why I wouldn’t go near those bodies of water. This is immediately followed up with how my friends and I would walk around at night with our dads trailing behind us as we took a flashlight to count how many eyes we could see in the water.
Depends on the clarity of the water and where you're at, ill go in rivers and clearwater springs and out in the deep country gators are scared of ya, but ehrre thry are used to people? Fuuuu7uuuuck that
My floridian family has a sign hanging on the back porch that says - Hurricane Evacuation Plan: 1. Grab beer 2. Run like hell...in reality all of the neighbors just get together and have a hurricane party at the one neighbors house thats not a trailor 💀
Unfortunately true. I got dumped for not having the correct reaction during a shooting by essentially remaining too calm.
As a kid lived in Florida for a few years I can confirm that it's done a lot of shit to myself as a person. An example is I can cross roads without nearly any anxiety even if there are cars going 60 miles per hour down it because I used to cross A1A pretty much every day to go get Dunkin' donuts
Lmao that last bit but for hurricanes. FL residents see a cat 4 that WILL hit them and go, "Eh the last one that strong that hit us only knocked out power for 2 weeks and caused the national guard to bring us MREs for food! It won't be that bad." 😅😅
Breh.
This is a thing my fiance from miami literally told me when I was worried about a hurricane in grad school, LOL
That Hurricane last September was projected to go right over my house. Thankfully, it veered down. I slept through the entire thing. Electricity was down for nine fucking days though.
Raised in Florida, can confirm, I have no sense of urgency or fear whatsoever.
Man I love being a Florida resident
Born and raised Floridian, this is completely true lol
I wasn’t born in FL but lived there long enough for it to affect my whole mentality😂 I love visiting, but after a couple of weeks I’m like, “oh I’ve got to get the hell out of here again.” Only that feeling is what I’ve had through all my years living in the state too.
FACTS!!!!
When ex-Floridians meet, it's like everyone escaped and are in recovery. Shortly after I left FL, I was in line behind a trash truck that hadn't pulled over. So I did what many a person from FL would have done. I passed them all and flipped off the truck. Everyone must have thought I was insane. People don't act like that here.
My mom's trauma from being from Florida was so bad that she passed it down to me and I'm from Illinois.
"complex trauma"
WHOOOOOO!
😂
Moving down to Fl next week this really gives me hope lol thx Ben
My coworker visited Florida, was at the beach, witnessed a dude get shot, and panicked.
Im from Florida and I really just said "Ah the gun laws are different than here"
Im live in Rhode Island now
I mean depends on the situation, generally id just call the cops, asside from that just keep your distance and mind your own business, they aint after you, bro probably tried to mug the man not realizing he has a concealed carry permit
I can back up every word he said, because I’ve been to the place, and he described it perfectly
As an active citizen of Georgia, who lived in Florida for 21 years of my life, this is accurate. Once I moved out of Florida I didn't go back for 2 years. I only went back to get to Miami for a cruise.
Yeah but miami is a different country, they got their own thing going for them there lol
* snows *
Floridians: 🏃♀️🏃🏃♀️🏃🏃♀️🏃
Exactly. While I was in Pensacola, there was a light dusting of snow one morning, and everyone forgot how to drive. Or walk.
The recent hurricane came over us, I was up all night playing a game.(I work at night but was off because I wasn't on the hurricane team) The power miraculously didn't go out, but the internet did for a little while, which was annoying as all hell, but all in all, other than the debris and flooding, we got off good. My roommate woke up in the morning and said "Did the hurricane not go over us?" I just blinked at her and said, "Yeah, it did?" Because it definitely did, the house sounded like it was going to fly off at one point, and there were constant tornado watches throughout the night but she slept through the whole thing! So yeah, the ability to sleep through storms is no joke. I use thunderstorm recordings as white noise on the off chance that it isn't storming.
Hears my Florida joke so my friend showed me a thing and it said 11 years and 7 months and she said that how long a Florindan in the Everglades lives and I sayed ehh no they learn how to catch bugs out of the womb fight snakes at 3 months old and wrestle a alligator at 2
Wait wait wait. I'm watching this at exactly 0:58 right now. What time is it there?
The thunderstorms and the anole lizards are the ONLY two things I miss about growing up in Florida. Everything else is trauma, 100%.
I ended up settling in Colorado, which is the opposite of everything Florida. Quite happy now :-)
3 things MN gives you: ability to where shorts and a t shirt in freezing weather. A hyper understanding of frozen water. And the ability to see eyes reflecting off headlights.
I love hearing people from different states talk about their common occurrences like everyone should know it too. Like California is like "Oh the sky's on fire again," or Arizona is like "Don't die of heat stroke," and Oklahoma is like "That's the 70th tornado this week, might be a bad season this year."
Meanwhile English people have no deadly animals calm weather and mostly chill plant life look at the US in fear
There's a golf course nearby that i go to every now and then that has a lot of gators. We don't even stop playing. One time, a gator was just resting, and a guy hit his ball around 20 feet from the gator. The guy just ran up, hit it, and ran away.
Living in Oklahoma gives you the ability to sleep through tornado sirens, I've legitimately done that
The end part is so true. Every hurricane my friends out of state “Be careful! You’ll make it through this stay strong!”
Me: “Its only a cata. 4 hurricane. Im throwing a party.”
Moved to Florida in the last year. I’m from the Midwest. Going for a walk in a state park or forest preserve at home is a no brainer. I don’t have to think about anything about how lovely it is outside, and yes that’s year round. Right now, I have a hard time wanting to go anywhere outside because of hawks and gators. Illinois and Wisconsin do not have large man eating reptiles there
You're seriously worried about hawks and gators? Man u need to just head back home, hawks and gators wont bother you but we have trees that will burn and poison you if you stand underneath them, and a water moccasin is very agressive
Florida panhandler gives you his stamp of approval.
Thanks to my current swampy residence, I now can barely wear shoes without feeling weird
I remember I went to a nerd camp the summer after sophomore year to CT and there was one other guy from Miami in our group. The whole group was walking in this calm quite white neighborhood and a car honked all of a sudden. Both of us turned around like we wanted to fight the car while everyone else just looked at us like we were insane.
Growing up in Florida should be worth its own point on the ACE psychological assessment
Extremely accurate, I am in for a culture shock when I leave for the first time 😂
"The more north you, the more south it gets"
Hurricane Parties. We don't worry, we get drunk and hang out. Yeah. Fear isn't the same.
“Hey theres a hurricane coming”
“What category”
“2”
“Oh good we’ll still be able to drive”
Florida is just built different.
As a native Floridian who has moved to the West Coast of the US, I can totally relate.
As a native Floridian who spent a few months on the west coast i have no intentions of returning to that hell hole that is California
As a Kansan,i sleep through thunderstorms all the time.....i just like rain and thunder
Hey that’s the Comedy Zone in Jacksonville, I’ve been there a few times, I’m sad I missed you
Same in Texas except no Disney discount!😂😂😂
For a lifelong Floridian, I think I’ve Florida’d wrong-perpetual anxiety plus I adore the cold (might be the one time I’m less anxious lol)
YES!!!! Get me the hell back to Atlanta!!!!
We walked past sleeping gators to get to school. Tree limbs the size of grown men fall out of the trees in a 'Breeze". Thunder storms that don't rattle the house are just a step above a sun shower. And there are people who eat faces. Nothing phases us.