Re: OT: You're from California if, ...

Abrasha wrote:
So as not to be outdone by all the redneck, hillbilly, and Texan jokes,
you know you're from California if:

* This is more like it. Everyone true. *

1. Your coworker has 8 body piercings and none are visible.

Your daughter celibrates her 18th. birthday by
getting her naval pierced.

2. You make over $300,000 and still can't afford a house.

Your Hispanic neighbor *can* afford a $300,000
house with his gardening/lawn care business.

3. You take a bus and are shocked at two people carrying on a
conversation in English.

You're amused as you listen to a Chinese-American
scrapyard dealer and a Hispanic signmaker communicate
back and forth in really bad English.

4. Your child's 3rd-grade teacher has purple hair, a nose ring, and is
named Flower.

You make a list of the errors in your kid's junior
high science book.

5 You can't remember . . is pot illegal?

You recall fondly the good pot you smoked
in '75 and haven't touched since.

6. You've been to a baby shower that has two mothers and a sperm donor.

No baby showers in Northern California.

7. You have a very strong opinion about where your coffee beans are
grown, and you can taste the difference between Sumatran and Ethiopian.

Peet's, not Starbucks, is all that matters.

8. You can't remember . . . is pot illegal?

You recall fondly the good pot you smoked
in '75 and haven't touched since.

9. A really great parking space can totally move you to tears.

You stay home and use the internet.

10. Gas costs $1.00 per gallon more than anywhere else in the U.S.

You stay home and use the internet.

11. Unlike back home, the guy at 8:30 am at Starbucks wearing a baseball
cap and sunglasses who looks like George Clooney really IS George
Clooney.

You don't go to Starbucks.

12. Your car insurance costs as much as your house payment.

Your smog check costs as much as your house payment.

13. You can't remember . . . .is pot illegal?

You recall fondly the good pot you smoked
in '75 and haven't touched since while sipping
a small glass of Southern Comfort.

14. It's barely sprinkling rain and there's a report on every news
station: "STORM WATCH."

You go for a walk in the first rain of the year.

15 You pass an elementary school playground and the children are all
busy with their cells or pagers.

You pass an elementary school doing 15 mph
so you don't get a ticket.

16. It's barely sprinkling rain outside, so you leave for work an hour
early to avoid all the weather-related accidents.

It's barely sprinkling rain outside so you take
the Subaru instead of the bicycle.

17. HEY!!!! Is pot illegal????

You recall fondly the good pot you smoked
in '75 and haven't touched since while sipping
a Margarita.

18. Both you AND your dog have therapists.

Both you and your dog have to go for a walk
to keep your blood pressures down.



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