This has nothing to do w/hospitals, but I thought you all would enjoy this..... TOP TEN THINGS VISITORS DON'T UNDERSTAND ABOUT CHATTANOOGA, TN. 10. Our public airport terminal isn't for flying out of, it's just a big, pretty, expensive building that's for lookin' at. 9. Any road can change names without any warning, rhyme or reason. (See Brainerd, Lee, McCallie, etc....) so if you're lost, get used to it. 8. The secondary roads were laid out by releasing a goat, then following it with a bulldozer. 7. All train crossings remain quiet and untraveled until you are 15 minutes late, at which point a 120-car train stops halfway through, backs up and pulls forward several times while you contemplate turning around like the vehicles behind you did. (You can rest assured that when you do turn around, the last thing you'll see in your rear view is the caboose going by.) 6. Road construction employees have been know to begin their careers right out of high school and retire at 62 within the span of a single Hamilton County road project. No one even thinks this is unusual anymore. 5. When you say "I live on THE Mountain" you are speaking of Lookout Mtn. When you say "a mountain" it could be Signal, Elder, White Oak, etc... If you reside anywhere in the valley you are "ditch people." 4. Chattanooga is pronounced "chat-a-noog-a". If you pronounce it "chat-nooga" you are obviously from "up north" and are branded an outsider for life. See "Wutwull" (not Whit-well). "Lufayet" (not La-fee-et), or "Fallin'-wadder" for reference. 3. If there is even the slightest inkling of a chance of snow, schools will close without warning. (My personal belief is that the local weathermen are on the payrolls of Bi-Lo, Food Lion and company since a prediction of snow causes every self-respecting Southerner to flock to the grocery stores as if we would be trapped in the house for a month. Never mind that there's a Golden Gallon store 200 yards from every home in Hamilton County. And the employees never go home. Ever. I've seen the same girl in our neighborhood store at every conceivable hour for 6 years, but I digress.... 2. When four locals meet at the approximate same time at a 4-way stop, it will take a small eternity for everyone to stop being polite (motioning "you first") and just go on through. 1. The downtown aquarium was designed with a slanted roof for one important reason. It's to keep the locals from fishin' out of it! Sheila