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[john]

Got this from a friend... 21 and 34 are my favorites. Feel free to add to it!

You know you're from Sacramento when...

1. You pronounce "
2. Sacramento" SACRAMENNO
3. Wearing Purple and Silver is a Fashion Statement.
4. You know you're only 3073 miles from Ocean City, MD
5. Driver's think a red light or a stop sign is just a suggestion.
6. The best restaurants in town start with "El" or "Los."
7. People break out coats when the temperature drops below 70.
8. You can cross a River, Freeway, Railroad or Street and go from a rich neighborhood to poor neighborhood.
9. You still don't know your way around downtown.
10. You complain about traffic and the cost of living (both in top 10 for the country)
11. You say "HELLA".
12. People put 22 inch rims on ANYTHING!
13. You laugh when a Southern Californian refers to highways like "the 5". It's just "5", there is NO "the".
14. You know that not everyone in California surfs.
15. On the weekend you can find something to do but you have to drive to get there\
16. Since Sacramento lacks them, Folsom Lake and the American/Sacramento rivers are your ideas of a beach.
17. Driving less than 70 on the Freeway is unacceptable.
18. You know not to take Watt, Sunrise, Florin, Howe, Laguna, Calvine, Hazel, Arden, El Camino, Marconi, Fulton, Madison, Greenback, Fruitridge, Mack, 65th Street, Power Inn, Elk Grove-Florin, Bradshaw, Franklin, Folsom, Freeport, Fair Oaks, etc; basically any roads....at 8, 12, or 5.
19. You swear there was an open field there last week, where now there are houses.
20. You can talk about what you ate from Mr. Pickle's without it being dirty.
21. You're STILL bitter about game 6 of the 2002 NBA Western Conference Finals.
22. When it sprinkles it is the top of the news.
23. When it rains, all the news stations predict that massive and destructive flooding will occur because the water levels are on the warning signs of flooding.
24. You know what Arden and Old Sacramento are.
25. Friends come in from out of town and comment on the fog, and your response is "this is nothin...just wait."
26. You see Porsches, Ferraris and high end Mercedes everyday; but you also see beater Hondas with tin cans strapped to the back...
27. You have to go to chipotle at least once a week.
28. You had flood days as a kid.
29. You go to adalbertos...at all hours of the night.
30. You actually cared about the closure of Tower Records
31. You've never actually been into the State Capitol, but you've passed it on numerous occasions while lost downtown.
32. You camped out to watch the filming of John Travolta's movie in the Fab Forties a few years ago.
33. You know that Tom Hanks is from Sac and went to Sac State.
34. You've heard rumors for years that the Drive-In movies are being torn down, but you still go at least once a summer because they're still there.
35. Almost everyday from June to September is a "Spare the Air Day"
36. You tell ppl that you live in the Pocket and they don't think that you live in somebody's pants
37. You've probably ran over a chicken or two in Old Fair Oaks
38. You remember when there was nothing around Arco.

[ngilbert]

- you get cravings for a "Merlino", and so you drive all the way to Hagen's on Walnut & El Camino to satisfy your addiction

- you pretty much assume that, if there is a devil, he looks something like Bob Wilkins

- you actually "get" Rush Limbaugh's Rio Linda jokes

- you learned the classics from Captain Mitch

[Al Waysrite]

you moved here from either San Jose or Orange County (maybe that's just Folsom) and you now refer to the people in those communities as the "nut jobs" down in the bay area or southern cal.

[Chad Vander Veen]

...you used to live in the Bay Area.

[ngilbert]

- You have caught yourself saying "but it's a dry heat"

[Solartide]

Got this from a friend... 21 and 34 are my favorites. Feel free to add to it!

You know you're from Sacramento when...

• You remember when there was nothing around Arco.

Theres stuff around arco now?

[supermom]

-someone is giving you directions and they say "over by where the orchards used ta be" ofcoarse most people don't remember where the orchards used to be, and they probably wouldn't know one orchard from another-but you always do remember just what they are talking about.



-the only people who can succesfully navigate through downtown sacramento without accidentally going the wrong way down a one way street are out of towners and probably from San Francisco.


-You are used to being labeled as 'one of those valley girl gangsters when you travel out of state
and being labeled a hick when you travel to So Cal which seems like it is out of state.

[tessieca]

You've explained to people that you live near that prison in the Johnny Cash movie.

[supermom]

When you tell your family that your gonna make a quick trip to the grocery store and your family understands that that means it will take at least 20 minutes to drive 1 block up and 1 block over. Oh, and don't forget the Starbucks on the way home!