Date: 2010-08-02 03:28 am (UTC)
You Know You're a True Seattle-ite when...

1. You've scraped your icy car windows with a credit card.
2. You've "shoveled" your driveway with a whisk broom or dust pan.
3. You don't think twice about wearing Teva sandals, blaze yellow Gortex, rip-stop pants to a nice steakhouse.
4. You don't go to work for a whole week if there's 2 inches of snow.
10. You've seriously taken a class on avalanches and how to survive them in the backcountry.
13. You think Taco Del Mar is pretty good Mexican food.
14. You wanted a piece of the demolished King Dome.
15. You think there should be MORE Starbucks.
16. You think there are too many Starbucks.
17. You have an I.V. line of coffee dripping into your body at all hours.
23. You stop for pedestrians because you know they don't even look before stepping into traffic.
30. You've eaten a fish taco.
31. You recycle everything possible and think people who don't are criminally irresponsible.
32. You'll always like watching the fish throwers at Pike Place.
33. You don't wear high heels/hose or neckties, pretty much ever.
34. You've experienced firsthand the difference between "water-resistant" and "water-proof" clothing.
45. Your kids play in the rain and don't care.
46. When Mt. Rainier appears on a sunny day, you are always amazed.
52. You don't need to call a computer specialist for home computer problems because you or someone you know can fix it.
53. You give directions like this: I can't remember what that road's called, but it's just past the hill, after the Shell station. If you start going up another hill, then you've passed it. I think there's some kind of plant nursery across from where you turn, so look for that.
54. You know someone who retired extremely wealthy before turning 40.
57. You have flex hours at work.
58. You can't believe Boeing moved it's HQ elsewhere.
64. You know the phone number to report carpool lane violators.
65. You've been in four completely different weather systems all in one day.
66. You've "packed it in and packed it out".
67. You have at least three friends who are working "contract".
68. You've been in subterranean downtown Seattle via "The Underground Tour"
69. You've been on most of the ferry routes and missed ferries by just a few seconds.
70. You've had a "Nordie bar".
71. You've had pets in counseling.
72. You expect people to come to complete stops in highway merge lanes.
73. You enjoy having "help out to the car" with your groceries.
74. You're polite with people but not too personal.
75. You email way more than you phone anyone.
76. You've visited The Troll, Lenin, and Hendrix.
77. You've driven to the western edge of America on a whim, and it took a really long time to get there.
78. You've gone camping on a whim.
79. You own your own tent and about a hundred other camping supplies.
80. You sort of do but sort of don't "believe" in the existence of the Sasquatch.
81. You've seen the Seahawks play in Qwest Field.
86. You've seen the summer wildflowers at Mount Rainier.
87. You know Baker has the most snow the earliest.
94. You know University of Washington is known as "udub", not "u of w" or "uw".
95. You know where all the free wireless is.
96. You never have a real tan but you do get badly sunburned at least once every year.
97. You own one of those lamps that simulates sunlight.
98. You've eaten aplets or cotlets.
99. You think the recently suggested state slogan, "Say-Wah" is about the dumbest thing you've ever heard.
100. You know you're living in one of the most beautiful parts of the world and you try hard to experience it, appreciate it, and take care of it.

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