Jeff Foxworthy ~ Living in Oregon

[Wuntvor]

I was recently sent this in an e-mail and just had to share.  This is SO TRUE!   

THIS IS WHAT JEFF FOXWORTHY HAS TO SAY ABOUT 'LIVING IN OREGON' . .

If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don't work there, you live in Oregon.

If you've worn shorts, sandals and a parka at the same time, you live in Oregon.

If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed the wrong number, you live in Oregon.

If you measure distance in hours, you live in Oregon.

If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you live in Oregon.

If you have switched from 'heat' to 'A/C' and back again in the same day, you live in Oregon.

If you install security lights on your house and garage but leave both doors unlocked, you live in Oregon.

If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in Central, Southern or Eastern Oregon.

If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over 2 layers of clothes or under a raincoat, you live in Oregon.

If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow and ice, you live in Oregon.

If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction, you live in Oregon.

If you feel guilty throwing aluminum cans or paper in the trash, you live in Oregon.

If you know more than 10 ways to order coffee, you live in Oregon.

If you know more people who own boats than air conditioners, you live in Oregon.

If you stand on a deserted corner in the rain waiting for the "Walk" signal, you live in Oregon.

If you consider that if it has no snow or has not recently erupted, it is not a real mountain, you live in Oregon.

If you can taste the difference between Starbucks, Seattle's Best, and Dutch Bros, you live in Oregon.

If you know the difference between Chinook, Coho and Sockeye salmon, you live in Oregon.

If you know how to pronounce Sequim, Puyallup, Clatskanie, Issaquah, Oregon, Umpqua, Yakima and Willamette, you live in Oregon.

If you consider swimming an indoor sport, you live in Oregon.

If you know that Boring is a city and not just a feeling, you live in Oregon.

If you can tell the difference between Japanese, Chinese and Thai food, you live in Oregon.

If you never go camping without waterproof matches and a poncho, you live in Oregon.

If you have actually used your mountain bike on a mountain, you live in Oregon.

If you think people who use umbrellas are either wimps or tourists, you live in Oregon.

If you buy new sunglasses every year, because you cannot find the old ones after such a long time, you live in Oregon.

If you actually understand these jokes and forward them to all your OREGON friends, you live or have lived in Oregon.

[chelseahavoc]

xD that is great

[LtCommanderRichie]

I said no to literally two of those.

And that was just because I haven't had conversations with people that dialed the wrong number before and I bear the cold when it comes to Halloween costumes.

[Negima]

I swear I've seen this before.... anyway-

He forgot some important ones.

If you aren't surprised by the freak hail storm in April, you live in Oregon.

If you can think of at least a dozen different ways to say, "It's raining," you live in Oregon.
(It's raining, drizzling, a heavy drizzle, light drizzle, pouring, showering, heavy showers, light showers, misting, pouring buckets, a light mist, downpour, heavy downpour, light downpour, and so on)

[Konan-ChanX3]

I said no to the lengthy convo one xD

[MiriaRose]

Wait, how does measuring distance in hours and knowing the difference between Thai, Japanese, and Chinese food make one an Oregonian? That stuff applied to me before I moved here.

Most of these apply, though. Starbucks and Dutch Bros. taste very different.

[Animeman73]

LOL

So very funny and so VERY true.

[Washougal_Otaku]

Many of these apply to me, and I'm a Washingtonian. 

[DemonSpawn]

If you're not from Oregon and it's pouring down rain and people describe it as 'a little drizzle' you're in Oregon. XD

[reppy]

I would lol at my friends that live in places like Arizona and actually own an umbrella, meanwhile it rains 2/3rd of the year around this area and I rarely ever see someone with an umbrella.

[Wuntvor]

He forgot some important ones.

If you aren't surprised by the freak hail storm in April, you live in Oregon.

If you can think of at least a dozen different ways to say, "It's raining," you live in Oregon.
(It's raining, drizzling, a heavy drizzle, light drizzle, pouring, showering, heavy showers, light showers, misting, pouring buckets, a light mist, downpour, heavy downpour, light downpour, and so on)

Thanks Negi.  Yeah, I think he should have added these as well.  My common phrase is "It's sprinkling."  which I guess derived from sprinklers in my youth.  I know I hear a lot of other people use it as well.   

[chelseahavoc]

>.> i think its funny as hell when its the last day of scool (its clearly summer!) and kids walk in the cafiteria drenched xD

[Prinz Eugen]

If you can think of at least a dozen different ways to say, "It's raining," you live in Oregon.
(It's raining, drizzling, a heavy drizzle, light drizzle, pouring, showering, heavy showers, light showers, misting, pouring buckets, a light mist, downpour, heavy downpour, light downpour, and so on)

Yeah - even the NOAA radio says "rain today, turning to showers by afternoon..."

[reppy]

I remember hearing some late night talk show host make a joke somewhat similar to this.

"So, the army is saying that their laser guided missiles are having difficulty acquiring targets in the region because of cloud cover and rain.  Let's just hope we never have to go war with Seattle."

[Pchan]

Sadly, I've either done most of those, seen most of them, or have friends that have done/are doing them >>;;

[chelseahavoc]

>.> you know its realy sad when you want it to rain and your upset because its actualy sunny for once xD

[soundninja12]

OH GOD, THEY'RE ALL TRUE xD

[jaybug]

And in Eugene please to wear socks with your Birkenstocks.

Saw the list at the local hardware store last month. Made me wonder if I lived in Pixley instead of Creswell.