| 8 | “Tell me again why people want to live there ?” |
Good point, I can't think of a single reason.
--Boot Hill
Posted on 12/15/2004 8:57:01 AM PST by My2Cents
You know you're from California if:
1. Your coworker has 8 body piercings and none are visible.
2. You make over $100,000 and still can't afford a house.
3. You take a bus and are shocked at two people carrying on a conversation in English.
4. Your child's 3rd-grade teacher has purple hair, a nose ring, and is named Flower.
5. You can't remember . . . . . is pot illegal?
6. You've been to a baby shower that has two mothers and a sperm donor.
7. You have a very strong opinion about where your coffee beans are grown, and you can taste the difference between Sumatran and Ethiopian.
8. You can't remember . . . is pot illegal?
9. A really great parking space can totally move you to tears.
10. Gas costs $1.00 per gallon more than anywhere else in the U.S.
11. The guy at 8:30 am at Starbucks wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses who looks like George Clooney really IS George Clooney.
12. Your car insurance costs as much as your house payment.
13. You pass an elementary school playground and the children are all busy with their cells or pagers.
14. It's barely sprinkling rain outside, so you leave for work an hour early to avoid all the weather-related accidents.
15. Both you AND your dog have therapists.
16. The Terminator is your governor.
17. If you drive illegally, they take your driver's license. If you're here illegally, they want to give you one.
I thought that just happened in Memphis.
Nope. DC area also.
HEY! I resemble that remark and I ain't from Kookiefornia.
Yes, what is it with all the mattress stores? I have been trying to figure that out. It is the same way in Las Vegas. There are almost as many mattress stores as convenience stores!
That's about right. Good one.
...4mycountry
10 days 'til Christmas!
Applies to us in the Northwest, too. But I'm moving to Utah later this month, and rumor has it that you have to have a prescription to buy whole bean coffee...
You mean that you guys don't realize that illegal immigrants don't care about much furniture. They just buy a bunch of mattresses and throw them on the floors.
You know you're from California if...
18)Your male neighbor has a pink poodle and wears Metallic Chaps and Halter top to work at the Strip club and it doesn't faze you one bit.
19)Your neighbors give you a bunch of sh*t about your car parked on the street when the gay pride parade comes down your street.
20)You yell for your daddy or mommy and two people answer you.
Where Spanish is the official language.
...4mycountry
10 days 'til Christmas!
Funny....bttt
.... Your neighbor thinks that the leader of the free world is President Bartlett.
LOL...That may be true in Utah.
Speak for yourself. You must live on the coast because that is the only place in California where the weather is that constant. In the real california, over here in the Sierra foothills it hits 106 in the summer and sometimes below zero in the winter, depending on what altitude you are at and in California altitude makes the difference. Where I am,1200 ft, in a normal winter it is not uncommon for temps of 16 above in the mornings, and as I said 106 in the summer is common. Only a small strip of land on the coast has the stable weather and when those people come inland you can here them cry for miles about 1.) the heat if it is summer or 2.) the cold if it is winter.
Because many parts of California are wonderful. I was born in California and have lived my entire life here.
Trust me when I tell you that the city in which I live is as nice as I could want life to be.
I have to chuckle at all the California critics. Gee..........I wonder why our esteemed leader, Ronald Reagan, chose to live out his life here. Surely he could have chosen anywhere he wanted.
When you are incapable of telling an anecdote without using the word "like" . . .
When being a conservative means you are a tough, battle-scarred soul because the "tolerant" liberals can't tolerate anyone who doesn't agree with them . . .
When people mistake vandalism, destruction of property, assault and shutting down whole segments of the economy with free speech . . .
When someone letting water run, even if you are visiting an area that has plenty, makes you crazy because you grew up with drought warnings . . .
When you can't stop laughing when on a visit to Seattle you see that they have turned off the fountains because of the "drought" (It hadn't rained for TWO weeks!) . . .
When the "river" being an empty concrete canal running through the city doesn't strike you as strange . . .
When you can claim the honor of having given Ronald Reagan to the country . . .
You're welcome to it; I think that California is too full of nuts and flakes. But if you like living on the inside of a mental ward, go for it :)
I'll be in Texas ... God's Country
That's where I live!
I have never lived in Texas and would not presume to know anything beyond what someone else tells me. Thus I would not take it upon myself to tear it down or criticize those who choose to live there. Why should I care?
Likewise, you and others shouldn't be concerned about we Californians? Do you have to validate yourself with the my-dad's-stronger-than-your-dad nonsense?
BTW, I don't live in a mental ward and Carlsbad, California is a highly regarded tourist spot because it's setting on the ocean is beautiful, the weather is great and believe it or not, the people are normal here. Imagine that.
| 8 | “Tell me again why people want to live there ?” |
Good point, I can't think of a single reason.
--Boot Hill
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