How to tell if you live in Oregon

TheRoadDog
TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
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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 a 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 .

Replies

  • Iamfit4life
    Iamfit4life Posts: 3,095 Member
    I MISS oregon
  • ak_in_ak
    ak_in_ak Posts: 657 Member
    this is funny becasue it sounds just like the people in Alaska!
  • EricNCSU
    EricNCSU Posts: 699 Member
    If you have switched from 'heat' to 'A/C' and back again in the same day, you live in Oregon

    This is true in North Carolina... especially this time of year... 20s at night and 70s during the day.. or 45 one day and 75 the next.

    Chuckled at the rest.
  • lunaephiliac
    lunaephiliac Posts: 64
    Goes for Washington too...actually, a bunch of of these places - Sequim, Puyallup , Clatskanie, Issaquah , Oregon , Umpqua, Yakima and Willamette-are actually in Washington.
  • tageekly
    tageekly Posts: 3,755 Member
    I love Oregon (went to college there) and I live in Washington, which is close enough that almost all these are still true for us as well!
  • birdlover97111
    birdlover97111 Posts: 346 Member
    Woot~Woot..!!...Gotta love Oregon..!!...Hello to all the Oregonians out in MFP land.... :flowerforyou:
  • ruby_red_rose
    ruby_red_rose Posts: 321 Member
    Haha :)
    This is true for Washington/Seattle as well.
  • atsteele
    atsteele Posts: 1,358 Member
    LOL This is very similar one floating around the 'net for PA residents.
  • Iamfit4life
    Iamfit4life Posts: 3,095 Member
    I was a "bum" many years for Halloween in Oregon and Washington. Easy to incorporate the rain/cold gear into that costume.
  • HealthyBodySickMind
    HealthyBodySickMind Posts: 1,207 Member
    Actually a handfull of these are also on the "you live in Indiana" list. How to really tell if you live in Oregon? ... you take good beer for granted.
  • shawnscott5
    shawnscott5 Posts: 295 Member
    LMAO! I love my state!! So very, very true!
  • orcoast71
    orcoast71 Posts: 105 Member

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

    I would like to add Heceta, Yachats, and Siuslaw. Those seem to be fun ones to hear people pronounce here on the Oregon Coast.

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