Post by inflight22 on Mar 25, 2006 21:24:13 GMT -5
Okay, I don't have many of these, but I think that if fellow Western Washingtoners join in, we can come up with a few: (I'm not trying to exclude eastern Washington, but it's quite different from the western side is all)
You know you're in Western Washington if....
Mt. Rainier is always in view, unless obstructed by trees.
Every town with a population over 200 has at least one latte stand.
Rainier is not just a mountain. It's your beer, your bank, your mortgage company, your tavern, your local friendly exterminator.
You can pronounce names like Puyallup, Skookumchuk, Enumclaw, Mukilteo.
Serial killing is just another local industry over here. You often drive by or live near places where Ted Bundy, Kevin Bianci, Wesley Allan Dodd or Gary Ridgeway lived or worked or left his victims.
If it's not raining, it will be.
If it's snowing, stay off the roads. Nobody here can drive in it. But then go back to the previous - if it's not raining, it will be.
You know who Harry Truman, Dixie Lee Ray, D.B. Cooper,
Mary Kay LeTourneau, and J.P. Patches are.
You're either a dog or a cougar.
When you want to have fun with flatlanders from out of town:
-you take them to check out local garage sales. They'll refer to this as driving on hazardous mountain roads. In truth, you aren't even near a mountain. (true story).
-You take them on the freeway and get sandwiched in between three logging trucks, piled high with logs that wobble back and forth as the trucks roll along.
-Take them on some real mountain roads. All the rock outcroppings hanging over the road, and the steep drop-offs on the other side keep them wide awake.
-You let them borrow your vehicle and see if they can find their way back. Since they're used to having miles and miles of unobstructed vision, their navigational skills are totally thrown off.
Okay, that's what I have so far!
jj
You know you're in Western Washington if....
Mt. Rainier is always in view, unless obstructed by trees.
Every town with a population over 200 has at least one latte stand.
Rainier is not just a mountain. It's your beer, your bank, your mortgage company, your tavern, your local friendly exterminator.
You can pronounce names like Puyallup, Skookumchuk, Enumclaw, Mukilteo.
Serial killing is just another local industry over here. You often drive by or live near places where Ted Bundy, Kevin Bianci, Wesley Allan Dodd or Gary Ridgeway lived or worked or left his victims.
If it's not raining, it will be.
If it's snowing, stay off the roads. Nobody here can drive in it. But then go back to the previous - if it's not raining, it will be.
You know who Harry Truman, Dixie Lee Ray, D.B. Cooper,
Mary Kay LeTourneau, and J.P. Patches are.
You're either a dog or a cougar.
When you want to have fun with flatlanders from out of town:
-you take them to check out local garage sales. They'll refer to this as driving on hazardous mountain roads. In truth, you aren't even near a mountain. (true story).
-You take them on the freeway and get sandwiched in between three logging trucks, piled high with logs that wobble back and forth as the trucks roll along.
-Take them on some real mountain roads. All the rock outcroppings hanging over the road, and the steep drop-offs on the other side keep them wide awake.
-You let them borrow your vehicle and see if they can find their way back. Since they're used to having miles and miles of unobstructed vision, their navigational skills are totally thrown off.
Okay, that's what I have so far!
jj
