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Friday, May 20, 2011

You know you live in Central Washington if...

The other day, I stumbled upon a list entitled "You know you live in Eastern Washington if..."

I could relate to maybe half of the items on the list - which got me to thinking and looking at a map: Wenatchee is NOT eastern Washington! It's CENTRAL Washington.

Hence, the new list for Central Washingtonites.

You know you live in Central Washington if...
  • There are night-crawlers in your refrigerator.
  • You or someone you know (YOSYK) takes a week's vacation every year for hunting season.
  • You are bothered with neither much rain nor much wind.
  • You refer to any place on the other side of the mountains as "Seattle."
  • You refer to many places in Eastern Washington as "Spokane."
  • You can accurately pronounce almost any city name in Washington, because you're not far from any of them.
  • Your dogs roam free, or can.
  • There is an orchard nearby to dump your food waste in.
  • You would never, EVER call an orchard a "farm."
  • It usually takes the same amount of time to get from point A to point B, not matter what the time of day (in other words, traffic isn't an issue).
  • You are sad because the last drive-in teater in the area closed down.
  • You've taken a class field trip to a dam or fish hatchery, or both.
  • You gift Aplets and Cotlets to your out-of-town guests.
  • Sons of orchardists and sons of orchard workers go to school together, where the population is about half Caucasian, half Hispanic, no Asians, and maybe one or two African-Americans.
  • YOSYK works "cherries" every summer.
  • Forest fires outnumber house fires in the summer.
  • The obvious, easiest, DUH university to go to is.....you guessed it! Central Washington University!
  • Among your friends and colleagues, there are about equal parts UW and WSU fans.
Note: these are overgeneralizations based on my experience, some of the likely false.

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