You know you're from California if :

[Tazman]

1. Your co-worker 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 Breeze,

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,

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

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

11. A low speed police pursuit will interrupt ANY TV broadcast,

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

13. A man gets on the bus in full leather regalia and crotchless chaps, and you don't even notice,

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

15. Your car insurance costs as much as your house payment,

16. Your hairdresser is straight, your plumber is gay, the woman who delivers your mail is into S & M, and your Mary Kay rep is a guy in drag.

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

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

19. You have to leave the big company meeting early because Billy Blanks himself is teaching the 4:00 pm Tae Bo class,

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

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

22. Hey!!!! Is Pot Illegal????

23. Both you AND your dog have therapists . . . and lastly,

24. The Terminator is your governor.

[akbound]

ORIGINAL: Tazman......
Your co-worker has 8 body piercings and none are visible,

Hey Taz.......you forgot to finish the sentence! none are visible......and you know what, and where they all are!

Dave

[Tazman]

Your co-worker has 8 body piercings and none are visible,

akbound when I read that one it gave me the willies!!!

[akbound]

Taz,

Especially since we didn't determine.....same, opposite, or transgendered sex!

Dave

[kevin1]

ORIGINAL: Tazman

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

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

You have no idea just how true these two are there . I was driving a U-Haul truck to the maintainence yard with a coworker one day , and it began to sprinkle . He completely lost it because I was doing 55 mph ! When I asked what his prob was he shrieked "IT'S RAINING!"

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[Vee_9]

I grew up in Wisconsin, and after high school spent two years in California.

Anyone who asks me why I moved back to Wisconsin from SUNNY CALIFORNIA is going to get a link to this page!! You hit the nail right on the head Tazman!!

[Popere]

I grew up in Mobile Alabama, and it rains there all the time. When I moved to Denver I was suprised when there is a little rain shower it is a severe storm alert. People out here will drive 70 mph in a snow storm but a little rain seems to slow everything to a halt. This drainage around here is terrible. Evertime it rains it floods this one part of the freeway everytime. We call it lake evans when it rains.

[Atrox]

I have lived in California since 1937 and everything in the post is true. I have a place in 50 miles from LA in a rural community where we have been for 18 years and now it"™s getting too crowded