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THIS IS WHAT JEFF FOXWORTHY HAS TO SAY ABOUT 'LIVING IN OREGON !
If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don't work there, you live in Oregon .
If you've worn shorts, sandals and a parka at the same time, you live in Oregon.
If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed the wrong number, you live in Oregon.
If you measure distance in hours, you live in Oregon.
If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you live in Oregon.
If you have switched from 'heat' to 'A/C' and back again in the same day, you live in Oregon.
If you install security lights on your house and garage but leave both doors unlocked, you live in Oregon.
If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in Central, Southern or Eastern Oregon.
If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a 2 layers of clothes or under a raincoat, you live in Oregon.
If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow and ice, you live in Oregon.
If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction, you live in Oregon.
If you feel guilty throwing aluminum cans or paper in the trash, you live in Oregon.
If you know more than 10 ways to order coffee, you live in Oregon.
If you know more people who own boats than air conditioners, you live in Oregon.
If you stand on a deserted corner in the rain waiting for the "Walk" signal, you live in Oregon.
If you consider that if it has no snow or has not recently erupted, it is not a real mountain, you live in Oregon
If you can taste the difference between Starbucks, Seattle 's Best, and Dutch Bros, you live in Oregon.
If you know the difference between Chinook, Coho and Sockeye salmon, you live in Oregon.
If you know how to pronounce Sequim, Puyallup , Abiqua, Issaquah , Oregon , Umpqua, Yakima and Willamette, you live in Oregon.
If you consider swimming an indoor sport, you live in Oregon.
If you know that Boring is a city and not just a feeling, you live in Oregon.
If you can tell the difference between Japanese, Chinese and Thai food, you live in Oregon.
If you never go camping without waterproof matches and a poncho, you live in Oregon.
If you have actually used your mountain bike on a mountain, you live in Oregon.
If you think people who use umbrellas are either wimps or tourists, you live in Oregon.
If you buy new sunglasses every year, because you cannot find the old ones after such a long time, you live in Oregon.
If you actually understand these jokes and forward them to all your OREGON friends, you live or have lived in Oregon.
5 comments:
What a great and funny list! Quite true, really.
LOL I like it !!
I have read the same thing with Washington instead of Oregon but it fits well in both states. Like you, my family has been in the NW a long time. One set of G-Grandparents on my Dad's side came to the Salem area (actually Spring Valley) in 1845 and on Mom's maternal side they came to the Corvalis area in 1850. Mom's Dad was a late comer, born in Seattle in 1888, the year before Washington became a state. but his parents had been here awhile. They left the city of Seattle for rural Idaho- he didn't like the big city. Her Mom was born in Idaho, also in 1888.
That is a great list. Many of those apply in Nor Cali too. We laugh when people show up with umbrellas here because they do no good when the rain is coming in sideways. And on my rafting trip in Idaho somebody asked me how far do I live from the ocean and I said 5 and a half hours.
Sounds like a good place to live and not unlike others I know.
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