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You Know You're From The Pacific Northwet if:

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PrinceofWands

Lifer
I know it's gotta be a repost, but I figured I'd try anyway.


You Know You're From The Pacific Northwet if:

1. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.

2. "Vacation" means going to Portland for the weekend.

3. You measure distance in hours.

4. You know several people who have hit deer, and not just once.

5. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.

6. You use a down comforter in the summer.

7. Your grandparents drive at 65 mph through a raging rainstorm without flinching.

8. You see people wearing hunting clothes at social events.

9. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.

10. You think of the major food groups as elk meat, beer, fish, and berries.

11. You carry jumper cables in your pick up and your wife knows how to use them.

12. There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at the Bi-Mart store at any given time.

13. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a raincoat.

14. Driving is better in the winter because almost everybody stays home.

15. You think sexy lingerie is tube socks and flannel pajamas.

16. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still raining, and construction.

17. It takes you 3 hours to go to the store for one item even when you're in a rush because you have to stop and talk to everyone in town.

18. You actually understand these jokes and forward them to all your friends from the Pacific Northwet.
 
I laughed PrinceofWands, but I have to be first to say, where exactly is the "Northwet?" 😀
 
Thanks PrinceofWands, I figured it would have an insider meaning, but since I've never been to the PNW, I wasn't sure 😕
 
Well, the coast fits the "Northwet" name, but there is a good size chunk of the inland areas that is actually semi-arid/desert. I live a 5 minute walk from the US/Canada Washington/British Columbia border.
 


<< That list could be adapted for Alaska fairly easily. I loved living in Seattle, though. 🙂 >>



Oh but it has....one of my friends sent it to me, unfortunately me being "not-so-bright" has since erased it.
 
Well 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, and 14 are true here. The weather is a little extreme here in the inland though. In the winter it's aboot 15 degrees and the summer it's 100. It's not very wet here but it did snow pretty bad today.
 
i think your joke is better suited for the *rural* areas of the pnw... cuz a lot of is not true for seattle.

funny anyways 🙂
 
Hombre: I think we live relatively close by. I live 40 miles east of Osoyoos. I like snow and all, but this much(and still coming down) at the back end of March just sucks!
 
I know it's gotta be a repost, but I figured I'd try anyway.


You Know You're From The Pacific Northwet if:

1. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.
Yes

2. "Vacation" means going to Portland for the weekend.
Portland is about eight hours north.

3. You measure distance in hours.
See #2

4. You know several people who have hit deer, and not just once.
*me raises hand*

5. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
Morning to afternoon, check.

6. You use a down comforter in the summer.
No.

7. Your grandparents drive at 65 mph through a raging rainstorm without flinching.
My grandparents don't drive 65 anytime.

8. You see people wearing hunting clothes at social events.
No.

9. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
Yes. (And I'm not telling you where I live.)

10. You think of the major food groups as elk meat, beer, fish, and berries.
No.

11. You carry jumper cables in your pick up and your wife knows how to use them.
We do, and my mom knows how.

12. There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at the Bi-Mart store at any given time.
What's bi-mart?

13. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a raincoat.
No.

14. Driving is better in the winter because almost everybody stays home.
No.

15. You think sexy lingerie is tube socks and flannel pajamas.
No.

16. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still raining, and construction.
Construction is a season, but it's that frantic point between fall and winter.

17. It takes you 3 hours to go to the store for one item even when you're in a rush because you have to stop and talk to everyone in town.
Not quite three hours, there aren't that many people in our town. 😉

18. You actually understand these jokes and forward them to all your friends from the Pacific Northwet.
I don't forward.
 
#1 Tractors are annoying, but they don;t cause traffice jams, everyone speeds around them. Plus they only really appear in the middle of washington, not in the cities.

#2 Vacation in portland? Lets see, my last 5 vacations in order from most recent to least:
1. West Edmonton mall
2. Flordia (orlando)
3. Camping in the Cascades
4. Yellowstone National Park
5. Hawaii
Portland is sooo booring, I would rather go to the east coast, it is that bad 😉

#3 is right, we do measure distance in hours. I once had a prof tell me that americans have no concept of time (we are such a young country), but europeans have no concept of distance (everything is close, very few 2 hour commutes to work)

#4 I do know people who have had deer hit there car more than once. Heck, we have deer in my backyard in Spokane every night. Lets just say this is where the paintball gun comes in. I did have mom ask me about a yellow-spotted deer back in high school...😉

#5 In seattle they switch from heat to a/c in one day, but not the rest of us

#6 you are kinda lumping all sorts osf areas in the pacific northwest together there. I personally am from Spokane and am currently in Seattle for school. Down comforters in the summer!?!? Lets see, last summer we had 2 MONTHES where the day-time high was not below 98, I guess since it did cool down to 70ish at night some people might need a SHEET, but comforter... I don't think so.

#7 Lol, this one is true also, I cannot deny it. my grandparents are insane

#8 never seen this at any formal I have been too, but I did once see a guy in military fatigues at a wedding

#9 hmm, we have the security lights but we also lock up. too many people have been robbed recently, and we live 15 miles north of Spokane where there are only like 7 people on our 2 mile road

#10 I HATE elk and venison. I prefer burgers and mountain dew 🙂

#11 this is true for most people I know, though I am not married yet. Yes, my mom and grandmother know how to use them

#12 Bi-mart? never heard of it. Maybe there are cars running at target though....

#13 raincoats!?!? thats Seattle and Portland again. We get so little rain in Spokane. In fact, most of our moisture comes from snow as we get about a total of about 16 feet every year (no more than about 2-4 feet at a time)

#14 this is true in the outer areas. You should see the people in Seattle try to drive in the snow, they are so pathetic

#15 hmm, defintly not true and I am very glad for that 😀

#16 Dude, SEATTLE AGAIN!! The pacific northwest is definitly not just seattle. I guess going from an average of 5-10 degrees F to an average of 85-95 in the summer is not considered definte seasons? In seattle and portland this is true, but dude, get out a little

#17 LOL everyone in town? lets see, Spokane population is 250,000, area population is 650,000. 250,000 x 5 min per person = 1,250,000 min = 20,833 hours 20,833 does not = 3

#18 LOL, I do understand some of them, especially the season ones. I make fun of my native seattle friends all the time because they have no concept of actual seperate seasons
 
Down here in portland, we know how to tell who is visiting our city, and not a native portlander....Portlander's don't cary umbrellas.
 
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