I love Washington! I love living in Washington and can admit we are a unique group of people. When I read Jeff Foxworthy’s list of “if you live in Washington” I could not help but count up the number of things on this list I have been guilty of. I would not want to live anywhere else!
“If you live in Washington”
- If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don’t work there, you live in Washington.
- If you’ve worn shorts, sandals and a parka at the same time, you live in Washington.
- If you’ve had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed the wrong number, you live in Washington.
- If you measure distance in hours, you live in Washington.
- If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you live in Washington.
- If you have switched from ‘heat’ to ‘A/C’ and back again in the same day, you live in Washington.
- If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in Central, Southern or Eastern Washington.
- If you design your kid’s Halloween costume to fit over 2 layers of clothes or under a raincoat, you live in Washington.
- If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow and ice, you live in Washington.
- If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction, you live in Washington.
- If you feel guilty throwing aluminum cans or paper in the trash, you live in Washington.
- If you know more than 10 ways to order coffee, you live in Washington.
- If you know more people who own boats than air conditioners, you live in Washington.
- If you stand on a deserted corner in the rain waiting for the “Walk” signal, you live in Washington.
- If you consider that if it has no snow or has not recently erupted, it is not a real mountain, you live in Washington.
- If you can taste the difference between Starbucks, Seattle’s Best, and Tullys, you live in Washington.
- If you know the difference between Chinook, Coho and Sockeye salmon, you live in Washington.
- If you know how to pronounce Sequim, Puyallup , Abiqua, Issaquah, Snoqualamie, Wenatchee , Spokane , Umpqua, Yakima and Willamette, you live in Washington.
- If you consider swimming an indoor sport, you live in Washington.
- If you can tell the difference between Japanese, Chinese and Thai food, you live in Washington.
- If you never go camping without waterproof matches and a poncho, you live in Washington.
- If you have actually used your mountain bike on a mountain, you live in Washington.
- If you think people who use umbrellas are either wimps or tourists, you live in Washington.
- If you buy new sunglasses every year because you cannot find the old ones after such a long time, you live in Washington.
- If you actually understand these jokes and forward them to all your Washington friends, you live or have lived in Washington.
So once again, I love Washington!!! Lyndsay Lamb Real Estate