WA Ping
You know you live in Washington when:
Everyday you ask yourself, "Why?"
You know you live in Phoenix, AZ when:
- You laugh at Easterners who think 80 degrees is hot.
- When the temperature drops below 70 degrees, you’re cold.
- You’d rather park a mile away from the store in the shade than take a front-door spot in the sun.
- You swear that about 99% of the people here drive either a Prius or a big honkin’ SUV/truck.
- You’ve heard the phrase so many times, you want to punch someone in the face every time they say it: “It’s a dry heat!”
- You find postcards featuring skeletons and cacti not funny, but scarily accurate.
- Every other house is made of adobe and has a yard full of decorative rocks.
- You know how to pronounce “Cholla,” “Saguaro,” “Tucson,” and “San Xavier Del Bac,” despite never having taken any Spanish.
- You laugh when your Eastern friend think you’re crazy for loving those rare and wonderful cloudy/rainy days.
- You don’t think girls who wear shorts in January are crazy, because you’re aware that they probably don’t own any pants.
- You’ve considered wearing oven mitts to open a car door, put on a seatbelt, and hold a steering wheel.
- Your TV schedule changes twice a year because of the state’s refusal to follow Daylight Savings. (Sure, we’re stubborn, but DST is also totally pointless for AZ.)
- To you, “Snow Day” is nothing but a bad movie.
- You only have gym class outside between November and February—otherwise, it’s too darn hot.
- You have to go all the way to Flagstaff to see trees that aren’t palm or palo verde.
- People here don’t have rat or termite problems—they have rattler or scorpion problems.
- You hate the Lakers. And the Dodgers. And pretty much every L.A. sports team, really.
- You’ve definitely heard of this thing called “humidity,” but you still think it’s just a myth.
“- You laugh when your Eastern friend think you’re crazy for loving those rare and wonderful cloudy/rainy days.”
What about those dark dust storm days? I lived in the Valley of the Sun when Scottsdale still had dirt streets and hitching posts. No air in the cars and only swamp coolers for the house. Too many people in the Valley now. So it was wagons east for me when I retired. Rural Virginny is pretty nice.
WA Ping
You know you live in Washington when:
Everyday you ask yourself, "Why?"
80 isn’t hot.. it’s sweltering!
68 here yesterday and i was sweating (to be fair, it was a rare, sunny day).
- Your outdoor thermometer is on a logarithmic scale.
(No, I’m not explaining the joke to the non-engineers.)
And don’t forget, they know how to pronounce Sahuarita! And Ft. Huachuca!