If You're from Wyoming

Thursday, February 01, 2007

11:20 AM - If You're from Wyoming Current mood: busy

I sent this around by email... but this was too funny and true not to share... and of course add my own commentary (which I didn't take the time to do before I emailed it around... so read it again!)
If you're from Wyoming.......

You'll eat ice cream in the winter. ~ Sad but true, I just bought 2 pints of B&J last night :)

When its above 65 degrees you sweat. ~ I've gone to Denver in February and thought I was going to die from heat stroke...

It snows 7 inches and you don't expect school to be cancelled. ~ Recent break from reality found us at the mall in Idaho... on a snow day... 3 inches shut down the school busses... but didn't keep the teenagers from making it to the mall...

You'd wear flip flops every day of the year, but you don't want to get frostbite.

You have no accent at all.

"Humid" is over 8%.

Your sense of direction is: into the wind or against it.Your sense of direction is: towards the mountains or away. ~ Unless you're from Star Valley, where the northern part of the valley is the "lower" valley and the southern part of the valley is the "upper" and hence your sense of direction is based on elevation...

You say "the interstate" and everybody knows which one. ~ That's not fair... there are two!

You think that July is a totally normal month for a blizzard, and you grew up planning your Halloween costumes around your coat. ~ and or just which friend's house you wanted to party at for Halloween based on the best overnight accomodations because you'd better plan on being snowed in...

You know what the Continental Divide is. ~ and just how many times you can be on top of it in a three county area ;)

You were tear gassed at college and you can't even remember why.

You've gone off-roading in a vehicle that was never intended for such activities. ~ Guilty... did you know that Chevy makes a 2 door that is almost indestructable...

You always know the elevation of where you are.

Your hometown's elevation exceeds the population. ~ Sadly, this is still the case...

Your high school has a horse policy.

You know that there are two kinds of Wyoming Girls: hicks and other.

You wake up to a beautiful, 75 degree day and you wonder if it's going to snow tonight.

You get pissed off when people confuse Wyoming with Kansas, Montana, Colorado, or "one of those other big square states out west."

When someone tells you the temperature you ask about wind shear.

You know what a 'poke' is.

Every movie theater has military and student discounts.

Everybody wears jeans to church.

You know what a "trust fund hippy" is.

You've made naked snow angels.

You can never figure out why your out-of-town guests faint from altitude sickness on a 11000 ft. picnic.

The mile high city is down hill.

When people out East tell you they have mountains in their state too, you just laugh.

You go anywhere else on the planet and the air feels "sticky" and you notice the sky is no longer blue.

You notice fewer stars when you leave the state.

You know winter is the best time to hot tub.

A trip to any bar is a high school reunion! ~ OMG! In more ways than anyone will ever be able to explain... one trip to the Cowboy caught my friend and I up with 6 of the people we graduated with... and since I think there were about 160 people in our class... if you counted the two of us that was 5% of our class...