That only applies to the washington coasties (west siders). here's one for the boys in the hills (cascadians).

You know you are from the Cascades of Washington when...

1. You know how to pronounce Sequim, Puyallup, Enumclaw and Issaquah, even though you've never been there.


2. Swimming usually involves tubes and a few ice chests full of beer.


3. You keep chains in the bed of your truck but haven't used them because you have 4-wheel drive (and we USE it).


4. You see a person carrying an umbrella and know they must be a coastie.


5. You can't find seafood, so you get a pizza.


6. Your lawn is mostly pine needles which you plan on burning at your next party.


7. You only stop once or twice on your daily commute to work due to few intersections.


8. You know the weather before you hear it from somebody else.


9. The sight from a forest service lookout tower is beyond comparison.


10. You're a little bit picky about your beer, but deep down, you don't give a ****.


11. Movies are your only option because tv is a rare commodity up here.


12. You have so much mud on your truck that people ask what color it is.


13. Half the year you wish you had a wood stove, the other half, you wish you had AC.


14. You always hear people complaining about the god damn coasties using the rest of the state as their playground.


15. You can hit a river with the toss of a rock.


16. You really believe you've seen bigfoot or a UFO.


17. You hardly remember yesterday.


18. You're in the sun all day, every day.


19. You look forward to food or beer.


20. You snowboard in a blizzard with no coat.


21. You learned to stay out of town on during xmas because all of the coasties come over here to gawk at our snow.


22. Your "bathing suit" is whatever you're already wearing when somebody says "lets go swimming!".


23. You still can't believe the kingdome is gone.


24. everybody on your side of the mountains shares the same area code.


25. You've never been to the space needle.


26. Some coastie that works for Boeing or Microsoft just bought your neighbors house as a vacation house.


27. You wake up with a hangover and prepare yourself for another drunk day and night by cracking open a beer with breakfast.


28. You have a bad tendancy to collect junk.


29. The nearest god damn strip bar is over 100 miles away.


30. You make your own coffee.


31. You know more people who snowmobiles than airconditioners.


32. You know how to gut a salmon.


33. You never go camping without beer, guns, and gas.


34. You're usually working outside in dry heat while it's over 100F.


35. You can point to at least 2 volcanoes even if you can't actually see them through the mountains.


36. You occasionally wear shorts in 20 degree weather.


37. You switch to your tennis shoes when the mud dries out.


38. You have managed to use your bmx bike on a mountain.


39. Your new sun glasses are which ever ones you find on the ground.


40. You accurately measure distance by site.


41. You often roll down the window to get "AC".


42. You don't use sheets at all in the summer.


43. When your battery dies, you pop the clutch by yourself.


44. half the kids running around are ghosts on halloween, and they use their own bedsheets to make their costume.


45. You choose your vacation spot according to where the nearest big casino is.


46. Everybody owns an old truck or subaru.


47. When a kid has chicken pox, other parents want them to get their own kids sick too.


48. When you think 'big hair', you think hair cut.


49. You laugh at all the coasties who're looking for the nearest starbucks.


50. You have it written on your calander when you don't want to go to town because all of the coasties are creating hell by congesting the streets like it's a god damn theme park.


51. When coasties get lost, they usually have to back track about 5 miles.


52. During the winter, you keep count of all the people you see in the ditch.


53. Whenever you see a duck, you think of the fastest way to make a meal out of it.


54. You try to make money from the coasties by offering to shovel their roof, and they gladly accept.


55. You fill your water jug at the river.


56. You don't like oriental food, if you do, then you moved here.


57. Sometimes you'll settle for drinking your coffee black.


58. You're surrounded by mountains.


59. You go to work for a contractor.


60. You've sat drunk in front of a fire in the rain and when you get home you say "why'm i wet?".


61. You debate if mother nature thinks it's winter or spring.


62. Every time you go out to play in the fresh powder, it starts to rain.


63. You have your dog trained to the command "beer me!".


64. No weather man could predict your weather as it changes too fast.


65. You have a wildfire story, and so does everyone else you know.


66. You can identify seven different types of snow.


67. You can identify five different cities by the cars that occupy it.


68. People encourage drunk driving for beer runs.


69. You still see people wearing "sodo mojo" t-shirts.


70. All of your roads are single lane.


71. Summer actually starts once all of the snow melts.


72. It's not a real windstorm until pine trees are blown over.


73. Everybody knows the air strip used in a movie with Ice-T.


74. You know who the Burgess family is.


75. A maximum of one of your neighbors is thinking about buying a hot tub in the next year or two.


76. You run when somebody lets the dogs out.


77. On the rare occasions that it does rain, you go mudding.


78. You start looking for something to poor on your windsheild when you run out of wiper fluid.


79. You drive up into the hills to look for an inch of snow before it's falling at the bottom of the valley.


80. The coasties come over to marvel at the leaves on our trees in the fall and they continue to walk in the middle of the god damn road like it's a side walk.


81. You start applying for jobs with the forest service when you hear there's a forest fire.


82. You give directions using which canyon you're in as points of reference, and they always pretend to understand.


83. You get closterphobic when you're on the freeway.


84. You know at least five ways to kill a buck, but prefer only one.


85. You know at least twenty different recipes that call for blueberries.


86. You know at least five different ways to drink single can of beer.


87. You know the difference between a female and male cannabis plant.


88. You know how to drive in the snow in any vehicle.


89. Everybody lives in the woods.


90. Nobody has school cancellations unless if there's 3 feet of snow that fell in one night.


91. Any vehicle made before 1980 is badass.


92. You know at least one person who's roof caved in from too much snow.


93. You can identify any tree you see, know what it's good for and cut it down by yourself.


94. You don't know what a turnpike is and have never paid a toll to drive over a bridge... ever.


95. You own a few barbeques, each are for different occasions.


96. You change your oil about once every other month.


97. When you start dancing, you're too drunk to realize you're dancing alone.


98. You use your defogger more than your thumbs.


99. Wool is your best friend.


100. When someone honks at you repeatedly, you know they're a coastie and you make your best attempt to piss them off more.


101. Most bands in the valley have a banjo player.


102. Everybody takes their lunch at the same time.


103. You enjoy working overtime.


104. You have more friends laid off than fired or quit.


105. You prefer the taste of cheap beer over expensive wine.


106. You know the state flower (dandelion).


Please don't take offense to me calling you west siders coasties, but when you spend enough time over here, you'll find that you're new nickname is either coastie or tourist.

I'm from Lake Wenatchee! Anybody heard of it?

ohhoho, that would work "gee what're the forks for sweety?"

any girl could seduce me with either of these things:
show up to my door dressed as a pizza delivery girl (with pizza in hand)
go snowmobiling with me and say "i wonder what it's like to have sex while driving a sled"

am i the only one on this site from the east side of the mountains? i'm from lake wenatchee, just outside leavenworth. we still have snow and i'm lovin it.