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You Know You Live in Washington if…..

Posted on 19 April 2011

I found this excellent post from Jeff Foxworthy:

 

If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and
they don’t work there, you live in Washington. 
 
If you’ve worn shorts, sandals and a parka at the same time,
you live in Washington. 

If you’ve had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who

dialed the wrong number, you live in Washington. 

If you measure distance in hours, you live
in Washington.  
 
If you  know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you
live in Washington.
 
If you have switched from ‘heat’ to ‘A/C’ and back again in the
same day, you live in Washington.

 

If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a
 raging blizzard without flinching, you live in Central,
Southern, or Eastern Washington.
 
If you design your kid’s Halloween costume to fit over 2
layers of clothes or under a raincoat, you live in Washington. 
 
If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled

with snow and ice, you live in Washington.  

If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and

road construction, you live in Washington.

 

If you feel guilty throwing aluminum cans or paper in the trash, you live
in Washington. 

 

If you know more than 10 ways to order coffee, you live
in Washington.
 
If you know more people who own boats than air conditioners, you live
in Washington.
 
If you stand on a deserted corner in the rain waiting for the “Walk”
signal, you live  in Washington.

If you consider that if it has no snow or has not recently erupted, it is
not a real mountain, you live in Washington.
 
If you can taste the difference between Starbucks, Seattle’s Best,

and Tullys, you live in Washington. 
 
If you know the difference between Chinook, Coho and Sockeye
salmon, you live in Washington.

If you know how to pronounce Sequim, Puyallup, Issaquah,
Snoqualmie, Wenatchee, Spokane, Umpqua,Yakima,

and Willamette, you live in Washington.
 

If you consider swimming an indoor sport, you live
in Washington.
 
If you can  tell the difference between Japanese, Chinese and Thai

food, you live in Washington.
 
If you never go camping without waterproof matches and a poncho, you
live in Washington.
 
If you have actually used your mountain bike on a mountain, you
live in Washington.
 
If you think people who use umbrellas are either wimps or
tourists, you live in Washington.
 
If you buy new sunglasses every year because you cannot find the old
ones after such a long time, you live in Washington.

If you actually understand these jokes and forward them to all
your Washington friends, you live or have lived in Washington.