1.
Feeling pretty sophisticated with you P.E. kit inside your Jane Norman carrier.
2.
Wearing your best tracksuit bottoms down the park on a Friday night.
3.
And thinking you were classy as shit if someone managed to score a bottle of Lambrini.
4.
Attending your first underage night at Dukes in Chelmsford.
5.
Getting into Bas Vegas with your older sibling's ID.
6.
Visiting Liquid/Envy after you turned 18 and realising it just smelt like feet, BO, and Joop.
7.
Feeling like an international globetrotter when you took your first trip to London with your mates.
8.
Feeling incredibly glamorous the first time you wore hair extensions to school.
9.
And if you were a boy, feeling an intense satisfaction when you nailed gelled hair.
10.
When your Mum said she was taking you to Lakeside and you began to mentally list all the things you'd convince her to buy you.
11.
Shamelessly setting "Essex Girl" as your MSN screen name.
12.
Or worse, as your email address. Which is now also probably linked to your Facebook account.
13.
Trying to make it to Peter Pans at the weekend because you knew that's where all the cool kids were.
14.
Feeling like a boss the first time you took your car up to the Southend car meet.
15.
The buzz of excitement when you found out the new student at school just moved here from London.
16.
Going on holiday with your mate and their parents to Pontins in Camber Sands...
17.
... or classing it up and making it a trip to Butlins Bognor Regis.
18.
The horror you felt when someone broke one of your snap bracelets.
19.
Buying 3 months worth of sunbed sessions to prepare you for prom because NOBODY wants a repeat of the fake tan disaster of year 9.
20.
And then showing up to prom in a hummer or a beamer.
21.
Wreaking havoc on one of the many fields surrounding your area with your camping and field parties.
22.
Listening to V festival from your mate's house in Chelmsford because your parents wouldn't let you go.
23.
Using your B.I.T.E. card for ID when buying your first packet of cigarettes at 16-years old.
24.
The moment horse riding stopped being cool.
25.
Trying to pull in Southend/Clacton on the hottest day of the year because you knew all the fitties would be out.
26.
Having THAT friend whose parents worked "in the city" which meant they almost always had a free house.
27.
The first time you saw the Basildon sign.
28.
Never being able to imagine growing up anywhere else because Essex has bred some serious legends.
