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You Might Be From California If:
So as not to be outdone by all the redneck, hillbilly, and Texan jokes, you know you're from California if:
1. Your coworker 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 to hear two people carrying on a conversation in English.
4. Your child's 3rd-grade teacher has purple hair, a nose ring, and is named Flower.
5. You can't remember - is pot illegal?
6. You've been to a shower for a baby 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.
8. You can't remember - is cocaine illegal?
9. A really great parking space can totally move you to tears.
10. Gas costs $1.00 per gallon more than anywhere else in the U.S.
11. Unlike back home, the guy at 8:30 am at Starbucks wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses, who looks like George Clooney, really IS George Clooney.
12. Your car insurance costs as much as your car payment.
13. You can't remember - is ecstasy illegal?
14. It's barely sprinkling rain and there's a report on every news station: "STORM WATCH."
15. You pass an elementary school playground and the children are all busy with their cells or pagers.
16. It's barely sprinkling rain outside, so you leave for work an hour early to avoid all the weather-related accidents.
17. Are drugs illegal????
18. Both you AND your dog have therapists.
19. The Terminator is your governor.
20. If you drive illegally, they take your driver's license.
If you're HERE illegally, they want to give you one.
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.... you think its bad to drive without being attached to your cell phone constantly.
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Totally number
9. A really great parking space can totally move you to tears.
It makes me sad knowing I have to go to work and I wont get that 'good' space back. :(
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I know! #9 and #12 are the ones that really get me, because they're so true and it sucks!
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...if you use the contraction "hella" and slang word "dude" in everyday conversation. As in, "Dude, I am not eating that bread. It is hella grody. I want some San Fran sourdough!"
...if you're a nice person & you still get road rage.
...if you look at the amount of sales tax on your everyday puchase reciepts, get annoyed, but do nothing.
...if you start laughing every time you see or talk about the governor...or, "Governator."
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OMG,this brings back fond memories of living there.I miss it.
:'( :'( :'(
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MMM CA....only 81 degrees right now.
You know youre from CA when everywhere else its freezing cold and youre outside wearing shorts and a take top.
....You wear flip flops EVERWHERE
....Shorts n things are year round wear
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i miss san diego :( What i miss the most besides the warm weather is the fact that everyone drives fast. Barely any slowpokes!! it's great!
it's 27 here, so i'm jealous of the 81 degrees you all have right now
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Having never lived in Ca. This is just observations of pop culture while I visitied there.
1. "Show me the money" has taken on religious signifcance.
2. What? Plastic surgery isn't coverd by my insurance??
3. I'm mortgaged so far in debt that I'd better live until I'm 213 to pay off all my bills.
Just obsevations of friends that live there. I don't think I would like to live there, but there are a lot cool places to visit and see from a tourist perspective.
;D
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California is a great place to visit. But yeah, it sucks to live here.
I do love my neighborhood in Hollywood, though!
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When I moved to California, a Lebanese taxi driver in SF had this observation on Californians:
"The rich people is on cocaine, the poor people is on crack."
It's true.
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LOL! Well, you have to be on some kind of drug to live here.
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Another, "When it gets below 60 degrees outside, you put on your goosedown winter parka."
"If it rains more than 3 hours straight, you get out the tape to verify the correct length of your driveway."
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:-[ Yep, the "gotta be on some drug" assertion is true. Between the overpopulation, pollution, crazy people & expense of living in the middle of all that.....you need to be sedated, or you'll end up residing in one of California's famed prisons.
Now I have to go out & brave the streets of California...this is why I like the Midwest so much.
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I'm not sedated, but I do drink a little too much and I'm on a bunch of allergy and asthma meds I never had to take before. Ahh, that good old L.A. air.
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That list is hilarious!
I especially love #14.....so damn true!!;D
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You're from California if you are terrified by one of the following:
1) A governor with an accent.
2) A gangmember with a gun.
3) A Texan with a football.
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Originally Posted by madmaxine
...if you use the contraction "hella" and slang word "dude" in everyday conversation. As in, "Dude, I am not eating that bread. It is hella grody. I want some San Fran sourdough!"
I've been in the UK for three & a half years, I'm almost 34 and I still say "hella", "like", and "dude" all the freaking time. And it gets mixed in with my British slang too.
All three used in a sentence: "Dude, like that bird is hella fit. Get in there my son!"
I also believe Kevin Kline said to his son in the movie Grand Canyon (which was more about L.A. than anything else): "Making a left turn in Los Angeles is one of the most difficult and important things you'll ever learn."
Goes to show, you can take the man from California, but you can't take the California from the man.
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... if the thought of driving in the rain TERRIFIES you!
... if you're within driving distance from the beach, desert, and mountains
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Originally Posted by lwtex52
You're from California if you are terrified by one of the following:
1) A governor with an accent.
2) A gangmember with a gun.
3) A Texan with a football.
Hells yeah!
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Ok this is totally going to be get me in trouble. It's absolutely un-politically correct.
But you're from CA if your Steak House has Asian bussers and your Asian restaurant has Spanish bussers. 8)
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Originally Posted by CalifSCVisitor65
Ok this is totally going to be get me in trouble. It's absolutely un-politically correct.
But you're from CA if your Steak House has Asian bussers and your Asian restaurant has Spanish bussers. 8)
No lie! I recently went to a Benihana's here in the south bay, and my chef's name was Juanito. Surprised the hell outta me!
He was a damn fine cook, though. Made a mean teppanyaki!!
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LOL I love the sushi bar's with the Spanish sushi chefs...LOL 8)
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Originally Posted by CalifSCVisitor65
LOL I love the sushi bar's with the Spanish sushi chefs...LOL 8)
This is too funny! I've seen this in Florida too.