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phenylic1. Go to Google and type, "you know you're from (your city or state) when..."
2. Cut and paste the list.
3. Bold the items that apply to you.
1. You’re driving on the 101 and see a clear cut definition of where the smog begins and ends.
2. You’re sitting in traffic for at least an hour at any given part of the day.
3. You go to the beach and see that real lifeguards actually do look like the lifeguards from Baywatch.
4. You begin to “lie” to your friends about where you are (i.e. “Yeah I’m like 20 minutes away”) – when you know that it’ll take you at least an hour to get there).
5. You eat a different ethnic food for every meal.
6. You look around at the nice cars around you during traffic, thinking it’ll be your favorite Laker or WB star.
7. You make a conscious choice to watch Jay Leno over David Letterman.
8. You know it’s best not to be on the 405 at 4:05 pm.
9. Getting anywhere from point A to point B, no matter what the distance, takes about “twenty minutes”.
10. You know what neighborhood someone lives in by the degree of damage incurred during the riots.
11. You’ve inadvertently learned Spanish.
12. In the “winter”, you can go to the beach and ski at Big Bear on the same day.
13. You know what “sigalert”, “PCH”, and “the five” mean.
14. If your destination is more than 5 minutes away on foot, you’re definitely driving.
15. Your TV show is interrupted by a police chase.
16. You can’t fall asleep without the lull of a helicopter flying overhead.
17. When tourists ask where they can get souvenirs, you direct them to Venice Beach.
18. You’ve trespassed through private property to get to the “Hollywood” sign.
19. You don’t stop at a STOP sign, you do a California Roll.
20. You’ve ever bought oranges, flowers, cherries or peanuts on a freeway off-ramp.
21. You think that Venice is a beach.
22. You drive next to a Rolls Royce and don’t notice.
23. You’ve started crossing a street and returned to the curb when the DON’T WALK sign started flashing.
24. You’ve never listened to NPR.
25. You think Manhattan is a beach.
26. You eat pineapple on pizza.
27. When giving directions, you follow up with the phrase: “With/Without traffic.”
28. Driving along, you see a high-speed police chase approaching in your rear view mirror. You don’t panic or even flinch. Instead, you call your friends on your car phone and tell them you’re on TV.
29. You know that if you drivetwo quarter mile(s) in any direction you will find a McDonald’s or a Starbucks.
30. You never, ever go into the water at the Beach. You barely touch the sand.
31. You are awakened in the middle of the night by a moderate earthquake. Your reply: “That ain’t even a 5-pointer” and go back to sleep.
32. You think you are better than the people who live “Over the Hill”. It don’t matter which side of the hill you are currently residing, you are just better than them, for whatever reason.
33. You live 10 miles from work. It takes you 60 minutes to get home.
34. Walking out of Jamba Juice, you see that a movie is being shot on-location across the street.
35. You are not happy, or even slightly excited that there may be a movie star there. You just say, ”They f*ckin better not be blocking my parking space.”
36. You go to Las Vegas for a weekend getaway and the whole trip cost you $50.
37. You know what In N Out is and feel bad for all the other states because they don’t have any.
38. You know that not everyone in Beverly Hills is a millionaire.
39. You’ve gotten parking tickets from parking in the red zone in front of your house.
40. Any major movie star is picking out the best portobello mushrooms next to you at the grocers and you don’t notice.
41. The gym is packed at 3pm…on a workday.
42. Any invitation comes with, “Starts at 8pm or as soon as you can get through traffic.”
43. It’s sprinkling and there’s a report on every news station about “STORM WATCH ‘99?
44. You call 911 and they put you on hold.
45. The three hour traffic jam you just sat through wasn’t caused by a horrific 9 car pile-up, but by everyone slowing to rubberneck at a lost shoe lying on the shoulder.
46. All the “cool gyms” allow pedestrians on the street a full-view of those working out. Literally, you can’t drive by Wilshire without staring into L.A. Fitness. Perhaps a new form of window shopping?
47. The waitress asks if you’d like “carbs” in your meal.
48. You go to a movie because you know someone who worked on it. You make a game out of recognizing local landmarks in movies.
49. You spend more time parking than driving. Being on good terms with the parking attendant is more important than being on good terms with your boss.
50. Your weather report features surf conditions. Your middle aged boss shows up late for work sometimes because he was surfing. (Not so much my boss, but my physics professor...)
51. When driving, you have to watch for people making right turns from the left lane and vice versa.
52. You visit the midwest and wonder where all the caucasians came from
53. Everyone you know came from somewhere else. They constantly complain that LA isn't like where they came from. Despite this, they stay.
54. You can have Persian food delivered
55. Your lawn is small enough to mow with a weed wacker
56. Your local chain supermarket has a great selection of fresh sushi
57. EVERYONE you know owns a pager and/or cell phone.
2. Cut and paste the list.
3. Bold the items that apply to you.
1. You’re driving on the 101 and see a clear cut definition of where the smog begins and ends.
2. You’re sitting in traffic for at least an hour at any given part of the day.
3. You go to the beach and see that real lifeguards actually do look like the lifeguards from Baywatch.
4. You begin to “lie” to your friends about where you are (i.e. “Yeah I’m like 20 minutes away”) – when you know that it’ll take you at least an hour to get there).
5. You eat a different ethnic food for every meal.
6. You look around at the nice cars around you during traffic, thinking it’ll be your favorite Laker or WB star.
7. You make a conscious choice to watch Jay Leno over David Letterman.
8. You know it’s best not to be on the 405 at 4:05 pm.
9. Getting anywhere from point A to point B, no matter what the distance, takes about “twenty minutes”.
10. You know what neighborhood someone lives in by the degree of damage incurred during the riots.
11. You’ve inadvertently learned Spanish.
12. In the “winter”, you can go to the beach and ski at Big Bear on the same day.
13. You know what “sigalert”, “PCH”, and “the five” mean.
14. If your destination is more than 5 minutes away on foot, you’re definitely driving.
15. Your TV show is interrupted by a police chase.
16. You can’t fall asleep without the lull of a helicopter flying overhead.
17. When tourists ask where they can get souvenirs, you direct them to Venice Beach.
18. You’ve trespassed through private property to get to the “Hollywood” sign.
19. You don’t stop at a STOP sign, you do a California Roll.
20. You’ve ever bought oranges, flowers, cherries or peanuts on a freeway off-ramp.
21. You think that Venice is a beach.
22. You drive next to a Rolls Royce and don’t notice.
23. You’ve started crossing a street and returned to the curb when the DON’T WALK sign started flashing.
24. You’ve never listened to NPR.
25. You think Manhattan is a beach.
26. You eat pineapple on pizza.
27. When giving directions, you follow up with the phrase: “With/Without traffic.”
28. Driving along, you see a high-speed police chase approaching in your rear view mirror. You don’t panic or even flinch. Instead, you call your friends on your car phone and tell them you’re on TV.
29. You know that if you drive
30. You never, ever go into the water at the Beach. You barely touch the sand.
31. You are awakened in the middle of the night by a moderate earthquake. Your reply: “That ain’t even a 5-pointer” and go back to sleep.
32. You think you are better than the people who live “Over the Hill”. It don’t matter which side of the hill you are currently residing, you are just better than them, for whatever reason.
33. You live 10 miles from work. It takes you 60 minutes to get home.
34. Walking out of Jamba Juice, you see that a movie is being shot on-location across the street.
35. You are not happy, or even slightly excited that there may be a movie star there. You just say, ”They f*ckin better not be blocking my parking space.”
36. You go to Las Vegas for a weekend getaway and the whole trip cost you $50.
37. You know what In N Out is and feel bad for all the other states because they don’t have any.
38. You know that not everyone in Beverly Hills is a millionaire.
39. You’ve gotten parking tickets from parking in the red zone in front of your house.
40. Any major movie star is picking out the best portobello mushrooms next to you at the grocers and you don’t notice.
41. The gym is packed at 3pm…on a workday.
42. Any invitation comes with, “Starts at 8pm or as soon as you can get through traffic.”
43. It’s sprinkling and there’s a report on every news station about “STORM WATCH ‘99?
44. You call 911 and they put you on hold.
45. The three hour traffic jam you just sat through wasn’t caused by a horrific 9 car pile-up, but by everyone slowing to rubberneck at a lost shoe lying on the shoulder.
46. All the “cool gyms” allow pedestrians on the street a full-view of those working out. Literally, you can’t drive by Wilshire without staring into L.A. Fitness. Perhaps a new form of window shopping?
47. The waitress asks if you’d like “carbs” in your meal.
48. You go to a movie because you know someone who worked on it. You make a game out of recognizing local landmarks in movies.
49. You spend more time parking than driving. Being on good terms with the parking attendant is more important than being on good terms with your boss.
50. Your weather report features surf conditions. Your middle aged boss shows up late for work sometimes because he was surfing. (Not so much my boss, but my physics professor...)
51. When driving, you have to watch for people making right turns from the left lane and vice versa.
52. You visit the midwest and wonder where all the caucasians came from
53. Everyone you know came from somewhere else. They constantly complain that LA isn't like where they came from. Despite this, they stay.
54. You can have Persian food delivered
55. Your lawn is small enough to mow with a weed wacker
56. Your local chain supermarket has a great selection of fresh sushi
57. EVERYONE you know owns a pager and/or cell phone.
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Date: 2010-07-28 11:17 pm (UTC)How does a shoe instigate rubbernecking!? In Michigan it wouldn't get much more than "Someone lost a shoe." "Really, where?" "There, next to the chunk of shredded tire." "Oh.... bummer for them."
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Date: 2010-07-28 11:55 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2010-07-29 04:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-29 05:24 am (UTC)Though actually I think that's most likely because it's not uncommon to see chunks of shredded tires, mufflers, shoes, a lump of cloth that may be either a pillow or a rather fluffy but small blanket just lying on the shoulder. Usually it's a tire or a muffler though
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Date: 2010-07-29 05:28 am (UTC)Speaking of weird, there was this one time last year, where I could swear a toy truck overturned or something because as I was going home from school, a good three miles of the freeway was littered with stuffed animals. LITTERED.
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Date: 2010-07-29 05:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-29 05:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-07-29 05:37 am (UTC)Omg lol
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Date: 2010-07-29 05:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-03 09:16 pm (UTC)HERP DERP I DO THIS. Bad driver blog '10.
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Date: 2010-08-04 09:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-08-16 09:00 pm (UTC)-You say "the city" and expect everyone to know which one.
-You have never been to The Tower or Madame Tussauds but love Brighton.
-You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Shepherds Bush to Elephant & Castle at 3:30 on the Friday before a long weekend, but can't find Dorset on a map.
-Hookers and the homeless are invisible.
-You step over people who collapse on the tube.
-You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you multi-lingual.
-Your door has more than three locks.
-Your favourite movie has Hugh Grant in it.
-You consider eye contact an act of overt aggression.
-You call an 8' x 10' plot of patchy grass a garden.
-You consider Essex the "countryside" and think Hyde Park is "nature".
-You're paying £1,200 a month for a studio the size of a walk-in wardrobe and you think it's a "bargain"!
-You pay more each month to park your car than most people in the UK pay in rent.
-You haven't seen more than twelve stars in the night sky since you went camping as a kid.
-You haven't heard the sound of true absolute silence since 1985, and when you did, it terrified you.
-You actually take fashion SERIOUSLY!!
-You have 27 different menus next to your telephone.
-The UK west of Heathrow is still theoretical to you.
-You're suspicious of strangers who are actually nice to you.
-Your idea of personal space is no one actually standing on your toes.
-£50 worth of groceries fit in one paper bag.
-You have a minimum of five "worst cab ride ever" stories.
-You don't hear sirens anymore.
-You live in a building with a larger population than most towns.
-Your cleaner is Russian, your grocer is Korean, your deli man is Israeli, your landlord is Italian, your laundry guy is Chinese, your favourite diner owner is Greek, the watch-seller on your corner is Senegalese, your last cabbie was Pakistani, your newsagent is Indian and your favourite falafel guy is Egyptian.
-You wouldn't want to live anywhere else until you get married.
-You say 'mate' constantly.
-You see Kate Moss in the Chinawhite (again) and find it hard to get excited about it.
-The countryside makes you nervous.
-Somebody speaks to you on the tube and you freak out thinking they are a stalker.
-You talk in postcodes. "God, it was really warm round SW1 the other day"
... I love London. It's surprising how many of those are absolutely true :D
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Date: 2010-08-16 09:46 pm (UTC)LOL omg, I just counted the number of menus next to my house phone and we have 23. XD