You Know You're From Colorado When...

[CO Liberal]

• You switch from "Heat" to A/C in one day.

• You know what the "Peoples Republic of Boulder" means.

• Your sense of direction is “towards the mountains” and “away from the mountains”.

• You're a meat-eating vegetarian.

• You use a down comforter in the summer because you have the a/c on at 55 degrees.

• You're able to drive 65 miles per hour through 13 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without even flinching.

• You take your out of town guests to Casa Bonita even though you would never go there otherwise.

• You install security lights on your house and garage but leave all doors unlocked.

• You think the major food groups are granola bars, tofu and Coors Beer.

• You carry jumper cables in the car and your girlfriend knows how to use them.

• You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

• Driving is better in the winter cause the pot holes are filled with snow.

• You think that sexy lingerie is tube sox and flannel PJs.

• You know all 4 seasons – “almost winter”, “winter”, “still winter”, and “construction”.

• You've been tear-gassed in a riot to celebrate a team’s win.

• You think the State Governor is John Elway.

• Your idea of a traffic jam is more that 10 pedestrians on the bike path.

• You carry skies in your car, "just in case."

• You can never figure out why your out-of-town guests faint from altitude sickness on a picnic to Mt. Evans.

• You know the 'correct' pronunciation of Buena Vista and Saguache.

• You think there are only 3 seasons: “elk”, “football”, and “skiing”.

• April showers bring May blizzards.

• You see someone riding a Harley in a snowstorm, and you look closer to see if it's someone you know.

• 'Timberline' is someplace you have actually been, many times.

• You know who Alferd Packer was.

• SPF 90 is not out of the question.

• People from other states breathe 5 times as often as you do.

• Having a Senator named Nighthorse doesn't seem strange.

• A full moon has never kept you awake.

• You have an $800 stereo in a $300 truck.

• Knowing that Texas and California are both downstream gives you a certain feeling of satisfaction.

• You carry your $3,000 mountain bike on top of your $500 car.

• You have a business degree and are frying burgers at a McDonald's in Vail.

• You own a big dog named Aspen, Buck, Cheyenne or Dakota that wears a bandana.

• You think a pass does not involve a football or a woman.

• You are 82 years old and take up snowboarding.

• Your real Y2K fear was running out of Celestial Seasonings tea and trail mix.

• The entire top of your head is bald, but you still have a ponytail.

• You get depressed after one day of cloudy weather.

• You think that formal wear is ironed denim.

• North means "mountains to the left;" south is "mountains to the right;" and east and west are where all those liberals keep moving in from.

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

• You consider a three-piece suit to be a pair of shorts, a sweatshirt, and Birkenstocks.

• Your bridal registry is at REI.

• You can run up 10 flights of stairs without huffing and puffing.

• You have stood on solid ground and looked down on an airplane in flight.

• You can visit friends at sea level, drink a whole case of beer, and not get a buzz.

• You’re actually proud of "South Park."

• You cast out your fishing line while white-water rafting.

• You’ve never seen the tourist attractions in your own city.

• Your SUV’s tire size exceeds your IQ.

[otohara]

1. Saudi Aurora

and we voted out the Olympics...way back in 72 when hippies ruled

[F.Gordon]

2. Is Casa Bonita still open?

And how do you pronounce Saguache?

Funny stuff. Thanks Wayne.

[CO Liberal]

3. Apparantly So

Here's their web site:

http://www.casabonitadenver.com/

Saguache is pronounces "Sa-WATCH". And Buena Vista is pronounced "BWAY-na VIS-ta". If you say "SAG-watch" or "BYOON-a VIS-ta", they know you're either a newcomer or a tourist.

[F.Gordon]

5. Thanks for the update and the sa-watch lesson

Can't believe Casa Bonita is still open. Haven't driven down that part of Colfax in awhile. When I first moved here I had an apartment at 6th and Sheridan. Friends came in to town...only places I knew to take them: Casa Bonita and Red Rocks.

Well, that and Sids (Syds?) on East Colfax. Hey, I was young....ragin' hormones and all that...
:evilgrin:

[Hawkeye-X]

7. Yeah. I have plans to go to a deaf event there in November

and I haven't been to Casa Bonita in about 20 years.

[hasbro]

17. Don't eat there.

It's not as good as you remeber. the Gauc is brown!

The only thing good are the Sopapillas.

[Hawkeye-X]

19. That's what I'll probably wind up eating..

I like sopapillas!

[El Supremo]

10. Buena Vista

I believe you have that one backwards. I have stopped there a lot in the 24 years that I've lived here.

The one that's really weird is 'Pee-EB-Blow'.

[donheld]

14. BYOON - a VIS-ta

That IS how the locals say it. please turn in your native card at the nearest jerky roadside vendor.

lol

[CO Liberal]

15. I've Only Been Here Since 1995

So I never qualified for the native card.

Besides, I live in Pueblo West, the place so nice they procounce it four different ways:

PWEB-low
PEB-low
Poo-EBB-uh-low
PEE-ebb-uh-low

[MissMarple]

16. Also, Byoonie.

I have no idea how they spell it. Bueny, Buenie, whatever. :D

[otohara]

4. Si

casa bonita - been there once when my kid was little - horrible food

[Qanisqineq]

6. a number of those also fit for my home state

of North Dakota (eg. anything referring to snow or strange weather! :)). I haven't lived in CO long enough to find out about most of those, but the heat is on here today!

[eleny]

8. It was chilly this morning

But no heat on here in Lakewood. Hubby finally put the air on. We were just raking apples so he could mow the grass.

[Crunchy Frog]

9. See my reply in my post

in your other thread of the same title. I'm too lazy to repeat it.:D

(You really take your friends to Casa Bonita?!)

[uncle ray]

11. i've "only" been here two years but

it helps me feel a little more at home to relate to many of those!

one missed one, seeing lightening BELOW you! that's a hell of a trip more than seeing airplanes lower than you!

[CO Liberal]

12. The First Time I Experienced That....

...was on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia in 1961. We had gone to Luray caverns in Front Royal with the sun shining, and came out into a rainstorm. As we got higher on the Blue Ridge Parkway, we drove out of the storm and were above the clouds. Then we started seeing lightning below us.

That was 43 years ago, but I remember it as if it were yesterday.

[eleny]

13. Omigosh you bring back memories!

The first time I experienced the BR Parkway, Front Royal and Luray Cavers was in the early 70s. How beautiful! I've been there several times. And until I moved to Colorado, it was there that I experienced driving in the clouds for the first time. I suppose driving in the fog in New York might be the same thing. It just doesn't feel quite like Va and Colorado.

[Roon]

18. It's funny..

because it's true.