You know you were a Pelican if …

  • You always want to organize a luggage line when helping people move stuff.
  • You know which scars on your body are from your time on island.
  • You proudly announce “Half Way!” when you complete a task.
  • You’ve ever envied a job that left you covered with grease, poop, diesel, rotting food waste, or all of the above.
  • You cannot think of Saturday as anything other than ‘changeover day’.
  • You called iced tea “brown”.
  • You’ve ever tried to help evacuate a store/shopping center/dorm/etc when the fire alarm went off.
  • You still recite the names of all the islands of Shoals to make sure you never forget.
  • Something called the “Old Boiler Room” sounds like a reasonable place to hang out.
  • You can trace the important moments of your life by your crew and not by year in which they happened.