You Know You're from California If ...

[Joe]

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

2. You make over $300,000 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. Unlike most other places, 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 can't remember . . . is pot illegal?

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

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

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

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

18. Both you AND your dog have therapists.

19. The Terminator is your governor.

20. If you drive illegally, they take your driver's license. If you're here illegally, they want to give you one.

[Coney]

You call in sick because the "planets are not aligned properly for me today".

[Coop]

Hahahaa!!!

A lot of these are a little TOO true!!

~Coop,
Native Californian

(I can't remember if pot's illegal either. I do know the cops always have the best stuff though...)

[pseudo_vegan]

:lol: I'm not from Cali, but I spent a month in Berkley/San Fran last summer and just from that experience alone I can understand the lot of these :up:

:nigel: Cheers!

[Amy SF]

21. The drizzle has turned into a downpour and you see people reluctantly throw on a lightweight jacket over their shorts and Birkenstocks.

22. You see a homeless guy at the freeway offramp holding up a sign: "Have screenplay - need agent".

23. Dodger Stadium offers veggie hot dogs (it's true!)

24. Even Republicans use the word "karma" in their everyday speech.

25. A nice Napa Valley pinot noir comes out of the faucet.

[pseudo_vegan]

25. A nice Napa Valley pinot noir comes out of the faucet.

:smitten: CALI :smitten:

:nigel: Cheers for pinot noir!

[Formerbaboon]

-If you play "Spot the Soccermom" while rollin down the street in your beat up 88' volvo.

[Walter]

14, 15, and 19 are about the only ones that apply to me and/or I think are true.

3. You take a bus and are shocked at two people carrying on a conversation in English.
Perhaps this was written by a white person in a place where everyone speaks something other than English? It's not even a half-truth for San Francisco.

[Coop]

Well, I can vouch for the bus full of non-english speakers being true in at least a few parts of the state. Especially in the early morning, when the migrant workers are heading out of town at the crack of dawn to work on the farms. (Which is why I get homocidal when people call Mexicans "lazy". A lot of them work from dusk to dawn at incredibly laborious jobs. In my experience, whiteys like me are a lot more lazy. But I digress...)

[LudwigB]

All those are a little too good-natured for my taste. How about:

--You would never live anywhere else because you like the weather, yet you never go outside;

--You've lived in the same neighborhood for 10 years and haven't met any of your neighbors;

--You complain about "all the yokels in flyover country" and you live in Fresno;

--You gripe endlessly about the price of gasoline yet refuse to live within 80 miles of your work;

--You're a card-carrying Sierra Club member and hold memberships at three country clubs, all of which were built within the last five years;

--Colorado is considered "back east."

Bitter? If you grew up there, you would be too.

[porvida]

hahahaha :lol: some of those are so true. i was raised in cali and still live here....oh man.

[pseudo_vegan]

"Back East" ... COLORADO RESPRESENT!!! :nana:

:nigel: Cheers!

[Amy SF]

Bitter? If you grew up there, you would be too.

Hey, speak for yourself. I'm a native Californian and I'm not bitter.

[LudwigB]

Hey, speak for yourself. I'm a native Californian and I'm not bitter.
Maybe instead of "bitter" I should have said "dry and woody with a smoky finish". :p

[Morticia]

A guy in your 8th grade history class sells a bong to the teacher by calling it a vase. (Actually happened!)

You automatically assume any house with three or more bedrooms costs at least a million dollars.

You put on a down coat if it drops below sixty

-Morticia, a native of Palo Alto, CA.

[Amy SF]

Maybe instead of "bitter" I should have said "dry and woody with a smoky finish". :p

:lol:

[Formerbaboon]

-People think you're a phat hillbilly if you live in Bakersfield.

Adriane J. Been in Bakersfield CA way too long.

[porvida]

-You voted for george bush (orange county only)
:brood:

[CaptainSwab]

You buy a $400,000 shack that is falling apart and think you got a great deal!

You drive 80mph on the freeway and are going with the flow of traffic.

Your husband and you work 75 miles apart.

You want to drive somewhere that is 20 miles away and leave an hour early to account for all the traffic you'll hit.


~CaptainSwab Riverside, CA

[bethanie]

Ahh, I do miss California.

[Formerbaboon]

-Your neighbors drive suv's.
-If you have done your hair in "messy buns".
-If you have to justify that you do NOT see celebrities walking down the street on a regular basis.
-If you get caught in traffic on account of a childrens soccer game.
-If all of the seniors are either from oklahoma, or mexico.

[porvida]

-you tell people where you live by your distance from disneyland
-tons of people at your school WORK at disneyland (its true!)

[The Rev]

-- If you've never driven 55mph, and you would really like to experience it someday.
-- If you cough when you breathe fresh air
-- If "The Good Ole Days" means back when they had jobs

:wall:

The "Native Californian" Rev

[Morticia]

If a pair of twins at your high school each drove their own SUV to school because they participated in different after-school activities and didn't want to have to wait for each other (also happened, sadly).

If you have to deal with people thinking you must surf to school (someone really asked my friend that once).

[epski]

You live in an area prefixed with "San"

You can't decide whether to surf or ski/snowboard today

You call a highway a freeway

The freeways practically shut down due to the massive accidents that occur at the first sight of rain