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Tribal Hunting Student Files |
Feel overdressed wearing a suit to a nice restaurant.
Know at least eight people who work for companies that manufacture computer parts, airplanes or athletic shoes.
Can tell the difference between Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Thai food.
Return from a California vacation depressed because “all the grass was dead.”
Take a half day every July 1 to find your sunglasses and sunscreen.
Remember the date, severity, time of day, where you were, and how long you were out of power and phone service for every winter weather event in the last five years.
Feel guilty for days after throwing an aluminum can in the trash instead of recycling it.
Get very, very happy when the early morning weather forecast includes the term “sun breaks.”
Are able to use 10 words to order a beverage the rest of the country calls “coffee.”
Have ever called your insurance agent to ask if your homeowner’s policy covers falling trees, flooding, or mud slides-or if the number of your favorite roofing company is on your phone’s “speed-dial.”
Never go camping without waterproof matches, ponchos, and mattress pads that double as flotation devices.
Know more people who own boats than air conditioners.
Moved to the Northwest because you read that the two most popular hobbies are fishing and reading. Since arriving you’ve taken up fly fishing and learned to tie flies by reading a book.
Consider that if it doesn’t have snow on it or has not recently erupted, regardless of elevation, it is a “hill” and not a “mountain.”
Complain about Californians until the day you sell your house to one for twice what you paid for it.
Don’t complain about Californians because you’re secretly married to one or are dating one.
Personally know someone from Alaska.
Find a wallet with $500 in it, return it all to the owner, and refuse a reward.
Know the difference between Chinook, Coho, and Sockeye salmon.
Used to live somewhere else.
Believe swimming is not a sport but a survival skill to prevent boating deaths.
Believe swimming should only be done indoors, except in emergencies.
Own more than 10 articles of clothing that have the names of microbreweries/brewpubs printed on them. Bonus for embroidery.
Wave at people who drive Ford Explorer sport utility vehicles like yours.
Basically, you just drive down the road waving.
Can point in the direction of two or more volcanoes even though you can’t see them through the clouds.
Think downtown is “scary” because you were panhandled there, once.
Go to work and return home in the dark in the winter, even though you only work an eight-hour shift.
Replace your hiking boots with Birkenstock or Teva sandals when the weather gets above 60 degrees.
Believe people who use umbrellas are wimps or Californians, or both.
(From an email forwarded to LOTL by Linsel, Master of Lemur Magic, lgreene@. Original source unknown.)