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You Know Your From California If:

justanobserver

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My mom sent this to me the other day - although she now resides in WA, she was a native Californian borned and raised. I thought is was kinda funny. enjoy.


Californians

Not to be outdone by all the redneck, hillbilly, and Texan jokes, somebody had to come up with you know you're from California if:

1. Your coworker has 8 body piercings and none are visible.
2. You make over $300,000 and still can't afford a house.
3. You take a bus and are shocked at two people carrying on a conversation in English.
4. Your child's 3rd-grade teacher has purple hair, a nose ring, and is named Flower.
5. You can't remember . . is pot illegal?
6. You've been to a baby shower that has two mothers and a sperm donor.
7. You have a very strong opinion about where your coffee beans are grown, and you can taste the difference between Sumatran and Ethiopian.
8. You can't remember . . .. is pot illegal?
9. A really great parking space can totally move you to tears.
10. Gas costs $1.00 per gallon more than anywhere else in the U.S.
11. Unlike back home, the guy at 8:30 am at Starbucks wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses who looks like George Clooney really IS George Clooney.
12. Your car insurance costs as much as your house payment.
13. You can't remember . . ..is pot illegal?
14. It's barely sprinkling rain and there's a report on every news station: "STORM WATCH."
15. You pass an elementary school playground and the children are all busy with their cells or pagers.
16. It's barely sprinkling rain outside, so you leave for work an hour early to avoid all the weather-related accidents.
17. HEY!!!! Is pot illegal????
18. Both you AND your dog have therapists, psychics, personal trainers and cosmetic surgeons.
19. The Terminator is your governor.
20. If you drive illegally, they take your driver's license. If you're here illegally, they want to give you one.
 
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GrinningDwarf

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Nice!!

(And those of us earning closer to $40,000/year are never gonna own a house!)

I'd just like to add a paraphrase of something I read once by Robert Heinlein. (It's a paraphrase because I can't remember the book...or was it a short story?...that it came from!)

Everybody in America points to California as being the land of the weirdos. Those in northern California say, "Hey! It's not us! It's those southern Californians!" Southern Californians say "It's not us...it's LA!" Those in LA say "It's not us...it's those guys over in Hollywood!" Those in Hollywood say "It's not us...it's those freaks up in Laurel Canyon!" The freaks in Laurel Canyon...they just don't care!
 
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anisavta

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#14 about the storm watch cracked me up. I live in Central CA where we get lots of rain - so much so that we have had some flooded areas ... after about a week of solid rain. However when my DD and SIL lived in SoCA after about half a day of rain the news stations began the SPECIAL BULLETIN STORM WATCH that would interrupt the normal TV schedules. Now I know multi millionaires always build on precarious hillsides which have no support but we are talking valley cities starting to hunt down the sand bags.
 
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The Mighty Sword

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You will be receiving the public CA retirement, PERS someday, which is extremely generous and you never worked a day for the pubic sector here

The Mighty Sword might even get mad at me for that one


That's for sure, I mean about you comment, that's Cali for you
 
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