My friend sent me this the other day I wouldn't say it's all accurate but it is close.Definitely made me laugh thought i would pass it along-

You know you are from Washington when...

1. You know how to pronounce Sequim, Puyallup, Enumclaw and Issaquah.


2. You consider swimming an indoor sport.


3. You keep snow chains in your trunk but they've never been used.


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


5. Eating seafood isn't anything special.


6. Your lawn is mostly moss and you don't really care.


7. Your daily commute to work involves riding a ferry.


8. You know the difference between "showers followed by rain" and "rain followed by showers".


9. The sight of Mt. Rainier is still awe inspiring.


10. You're extremely picky about your coffee.


11. You yell at the TV if they pronounce the name of a city wrong or make an inaccurate Seattle reference on "Frasier" or "Grey's Anatomy.

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12. You rarely wash your car because it's just going to get muddy again tomorrow.


13. You wouldn't dream of putting an air conditioner in your house.


14. You go to Eastern Washington to get some sun.


15. You can drive from your home to a lake, a river or the Puget Sound in 20 minutes or less.


16. You've seen or know someone who has seen Bigfoot.


17. You remember where you were on May 18th, 1980.


18. You get a terrible sunburn on the first really nice day of summer.


19. You look forward to SeaFair and all its related activities.


20. You take a heavy coat and a hat with you for a day at the beach.


21. You have learned to assume Christmas will be rainy, not white.


22. You've owned the same bathing suit for years because you never have a chance to wear it out.


23. You still can't believe the new Seahawks stadium is open air.


24. Your phone book contains a tide table.


25. You only visit the Space Needle if you need someplace to take out of town guests.


26. You or someone you know works at Boeing or Microsoft.


27. You "Do The Puyallup" every year.


28. You feel guilty throwing something away that could be recycled.


29. You use the word "sunbreak" and know what it means.


30. You know more than 10 ways to order coffee.


31. You know more people who own boats than air conditioners.


32. You know the difference between Chinook, Coho and Sockeye salmon.


33. You never go camping without water proof matches and a poncho.


34. You have no concept of humidity without precipitation.


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


36. You wear shorts when the temperature gets above 50 but still wear your hiking boots and parka.


37. You switch to your sandals at about 60 degrees but keep your socks on.


38. You have actually used your mountain bike on a mountain.


39. You buy new sunglasses every year because you've lost last years pair after such a long time not needing them.


40. You measure distance in hours.


41. You often switch from heat to a/c in your car in the same day.


42. You use a down comforter in the summer.


43. You carry jumper cables in your car and your wife knows how to use them.


44. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit under a raincoat.


45. You choose your vacation spot according to the best latte stands.


46. You purchase a new car and the 'Northwest Package' includes a built in umbrella holder.


47. Your children don't get chicken pox; they get 'rust spots' instead.


48. When you think 'big hair', you think of Kent.


49. You can't make it two blocks without seeing a Starbucks.


50. When you hear people from Eastern WA say they're going to the coast, you assume they mean Ocean Shores.


51.

You make reference to the new neighborhood going up down the street and people have to ask, "Which one?"
52. You can't believe that people in Spokane actually have yellow grass in the winter and green grass in the summer.


53. You know how to pronounce geoduck and know that it doesn't quack or have feathers.


54. You expect snow for Valentine's Day, not Christmas.


55. You get upset when a store doesn't carry your favorite brand of bottled water.


56. You can tell the difference between Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese, Korean and Thai food.


57. You can taste the difference between Starbucks, Seattle's Best and Tully's.


58. It's not a real mountain unless it has snow and has erupted within the last 200 years.


59. You go to work in the dark and come home in the dark even though you only have an 8 hour workday.


60. You've ever stood alone on a deserted street corner in the rain.


61. You can tell its summer because the rain is warmer.


62. You know what a Frango is.


63. You think the "Middle East" is Ellensburg and the "Far East" is Spokane.


64. You realize no education is required to be a weatherman. Just predict, "Partly cloudy with a chance of rain.

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65. You have an earthquake story, and so does everyone else you know.


66. You can identify seven different types of rain.


67. You can identify five different cities by smell alone.


68. You thing espresso was invented in Seattle, along with Starbucks.


69. You know what 'Sodo Mojo' is.


70. You can turn in any direction and be within a stones throw of an Indian-run casino.


71. You think summer starts in July and winter in September.


72. It's not a real windstorm until your lawn ornaments blow away.


73. You know exactly where Tom Hank's boathouse was in "Sleepless In Seattle".


74. You know who J.P. Patches is.


75. At least one of your neighbors has a hot tub they haven't used in over a year.


76. You know who really 'let the dogs out'.


77. You become frightened by the bright yellow orb in the sky until the 9-1-1 operator tells you it's just the sun.


78. You've used every setting on your intermittent wipers.


79. You know you better enjoy the snow the first day it falls before the rain washes it away.


80. You marvel when the autumn leaves stay on the trees for more than three days before the rain knocks them to the ground.


81. You can't imagine living through a tornado or hurricane but you secretly think earthquakes are kind of fun.


82. You give directions using the Puget Sound and Cascade mountains as points of reference.


83. You lose your sense of direction if you go east of the Cascade mountains.


84. You know at least 5 different ways to kill slugs.


85. You know at least 10 different recipes that call for blackberries.


86. You are not sure of the color of your house because of all of the rhododendron bushes planted in front of it.


87. You know the difference between a rhododendron and an azalea.


88. You know what a ****'s Deluxe is.


89. You or your family member live "in the woods".


90. You can endure 100 days of rain and wind but an inch of snow means school cancellations.


91. You consider an antique anything mad before 1970.


92. You know someone whose house has been partially crushed by a tree.


93. You know the difference between an evergreen and a deciduous tree.


94. You don't know what a turnpike is and have never paid a toll to drive over a bridge. [[UNTIL THE STUPID NARROWS BRIDGE. Gig Harborians=Angry.

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95. You own a barbeque that has rusted.


96. You change your wiper blades more often than your oil.


97. Your idea of dancing is nodding your head vigorously.


98. You use your defogger and your AC at the same time.


99. You don't own anything made of wool.


100. When someone honks at you, you think they are trying to say "hi".


101. You get a least 5 e-mails a week from friends asking you to come see their band.


102. You know what a 9-inning lunch is.


103. You think you're working late if you stay past 3 pm.


104. You have more unemployed friends than friends who have jobs.


105. You prefer one mountain range to the other.


106. You know the state flower (Mildew).

holy **** thats me wtf i read all one hundred and something

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.

Wow. I've lived on both sides of the mountains and most of the things apply to me. I just can't believe the mods blanked out ****'s Hamburgers.....huh?
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see? (sigh)

Drove past there on my way home from dinner last night.

Caught myself thinking, "Damn, if I hadn't just eaten!"

Hey I carry an umbrella when I walk everyday...didn't know it gave me away. I have only been here 2 months.
Great Post. Very cute!
Smiles,
Dee

A lot of these are on the You Know You Live In Oregon list, but the others I can definitely relate to having lived in various places in Washington before moving here.

Gotta fire this one up again. I have lived in both Washington and Oregon and enjoyed the similarities for both states. Wooooooooo Hoooooooo for the PNW! :-)