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Welcome to the Pacific Northwest!
 | Feel overdressed wearing a suit to a nice restaurant.
| Know at least eight people who work for companies that
manufacture computer parts, airplanes, or athletic shoes.
| Can tell the difference between Japanese, Chinese, Vietnamese,
and Thai food.
| Return from a California vacation depressed because "all the
grass was dead."
| Know the vast difference between SBC, Torrefazione, Coffee
People and Starbucks.
| Take a half day every July 1 to find your sunglasses and
sunscreen.
| Remember the date, severity, time of day, where you were, and
how long you were out of power and phone service for every
winter-weather event in the last five years.
| Feel guilty for days after throwing an aluminum can in the
trash instead of recycling it.
| Get very happy, almost giddy, when the early morning weather
forecast includes the term "sun breaks."
| Have ever called your insurance agent to ask if your
homeowner's policy covers falling trees, flooding, or mud slides
or if the number of your favorite roofing company is on your
phone's "speed-dial" list.
| Never go camping without waterproof matches, ponchos, and
mattress pads that double as flotation devices.
| Know more people who own boats than air conditioners.
| Consider that if it doesn't have snow on it or has not
recently erupted, regardless of elevation, it is a "hill" and not
a "mountain."
| Complain about Californians until the day you sell your house
to one for twice what you paid for it.
| Find a wallet with $500 in it, return it all to the owner and
refuse a reward.
| Know the difference between Chinook, Coho, and Sockeye salmon.
| Used to live somewhere else.
| Believe swimming is not a sport but a survival skill to
prevent boating deaths.
| Believe swimming should only be done indoors, except in
emergencies.
| Own more than 10 articles of clothing that have the names of
microbreweries/brewpubs printed on them. Bonus for embroidery.
| Wave at people who drive Ford Explorer sport utility vehicles
like yours. Basically, you just drive down the road waving.
| Can point in the direction of two or more volcanoes even
though you can't see them through the clouds.
| Think downtown is "scary" because you were panhandled there
once.
| Go to work and return home in the dark in the winter, even
though you only have an eight-hour work day.
| Find that when the weather gets above 60 degrees, you replace
your hiking boots with Birkenstock or Teva sandals.
| Believe people who use umbrellas are wimps, Californians, or
both.
| You are sitting at a downtown red light. The light turns green
and the car in front of you does not move. You do not honk. After
two more light changes, you approach the driver to ask if they
need any assistance.
| You look in your closet to get dressed and you are stumped on
whether to put on your fleece vest, fleece pants, or just go for
the fleece jacket. Then you're stuck when you decide for the
jacket and are confused on which of your six colors you should
choose.
| Are able to use 10 words to order a beverage the rest of the
country calls "coffee."
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