You know you're from Sacramento when...
- You pronounce "
- Sacramento" SACRAMENNO
- Wearing Purple and Silver is a Fashion Statement.
- You know you're only 3073 miles from Ocean City, MD
- Driver's think a red light or a stop sign is just a suggestion.
- The best restaurants in town start with "El" or "Los."
- People break out coats when the temperature drops below 70.
- You can cross a River, Freeway, Railroad or Street and go from a rich neighborhood to poor neighborhood.
- You still don't know your way around downtown.
- You complain about traffic and the cost of living (both in top 10 for the country)
- You say "HELLA".
- People put 22 inch rims on ANYTHING!
- You laugh when a Southern Californian refers to highways like "the 5". It's just "5", there is NO "the".
- You know that not everyone in California surfs.
- On the weekend you can find something to do but you have to drive to get there\
- Since Sacramento lacks them, Folsom Lake and the American/Sacramento rivers are your ideas of a beach.
- Driving less than 70 on the Freeway is unacceptable.
- 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.
- You swear there was an open field there last week, where now there are houses.
- You can talk about what you ate from Mr. Pickle's without it being dirty.
- You're STILL bitter about game 6 of the 2002 NBA Western Conference Finals.
- When it sprinkles it is the top of the news.
- 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.
- You know what Arden and Old Sacramento are.
- Friends come in from out of town and comment on the fog, and your response is "this is nothin...just wait."
- You see Porsches, Ferraris and high end Mercedes everyday; but you also see beater Hondas with tin cans strapped to the back...
- You have to go to chipotle at least once a week.
- You had flood days as a kid.
- You go to adalbertos...at all hours of the night.
- You actually cared about the closure of Tower Records
- You've never actually been into the State Capitol, but you've passed it on numerous occasions while lost downtown.
- You camped out to watch the filming of John Travolta's movie in the Fab Forties a few years ago.
- You know that Tom Hanks is from Sac and went to Sac State.
- 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.
- Almost everyday from June to September is a "Spare the Air Day"
- You tell ppl that you live in the Pocket and they don't think that you live in somebody's pants
- You've probably ran over a chicken or two in Old Fair Oaks
- You remember when there was nothing around Arco.