Truckee (Los Angeles: houses, movies, construction)

[greatbasinguide]

Some of the kids at Truckee High School wrote the following, it is a reasonable illustration of life in Truckee, and that small town America is still alive and well in California.

1. U know three different seasons, snow, more snow, and road construction.
2. Your idea of a traffic jam is three cars waiting behind a snow plow.
3. You can drive down commercial row and point out every tourist.
4. You think rush hour is at 7:25am when everyone is trying to go to school.
5. During ski-skate week you go somewhere warm and do not ski or skate.
6. You don’t stop after crossing the train tracks and you tend to scream and use obscene hand gestures when people do.
7. according to you, Pine Trees, Lakes, rivers, trains, and snow covered mountain are nothing spectacular.
8. You go to a different state to go to the movies, mall, Home Depot, Costco, etc.
9. It is a Saturday morning in the fall, you are looking for a fellow local and without consideration you go to the high school football game and... They’re there.
10. You have a Keep Tahoe Local sweatshirt and even if your best friend from outta town is freezing you wont let them wear it because it would be a disgrace to the cause.
11. You played AYSO soccer as a kid.
12. You wear Uggs for a purpose not for fashion.
13. You can not make it through any public place without saying hi to everyone.
14. The majority of parties you’ve been to took place around a campfire
15. Every car in your high school parking lot has a ***** drawn on it
16. you know that you can really get into the summer concerts for 5 dollars or less at the door
17. you hang out with the same people you did in kindergarten... because there is no one else.
18. you listen to good hip hop.
19. you have made fun of Nevada over 1000 times in the last 2 days
20. you have gone power-boxing
21. You know the exact size and color of the Truckee P.D.'s car lights.
22. You've been through a monstrous snow storm, the last week of school.
23. you wear flip-flops in December...just to spite the snow..
24. Your idea of a party is at a place called "split rock"
25. During the summer, your second home is called "the hidden Dock"
26. When everyone and their mother asks you why you hate Kate when you wear your "I hate Kate" hoodie to school. And when you know that you and two other people are the only ones who understand this.
27. You've gotten a free smoothie at Robek's from almost all its everchanging employees
28. When you go to other towns and you are in shorts and a t-shirt when everyone around you is in jackets freezing.
29. between you and the person sitting next to you, you own about 170 hand made croche’ed headbands and 47 hand made crochet'd beanies....and they just keep on coming.
30. When you see a deer near the road, you don't stop and go "oh honey look at the cute little deer" you flash your lights honk your horn and speed off, and pray to god you don't hit one on your way.

[SeizeTheJourney]

I'm surprised to see the absence of something along the lines of "You can come up with more than 100 ways to reword the KEEP TAHOE BLUE sticker."

BTW, wondering why you don't have Truckee as your location? Truckee definitely is not Tahoe.... just ask any local (full or part-time).

[gizmo980]

My best friend went to Truckee High, and it snowed on their graduation day... so these are most definitely true!! I'll have to forward this to her, LOL. I lived on the other side of the lake (South Shore), but still got most of the jokes...

[greatbasinguide]

Why I do not have Truckee as my home,,, I am an ambigous sort,, Not sure what a local is, I have only been here 30 years.

Yes, the girls are dressed for school ,,, in ballet shoes again,

[mountainmaneddie]

Hi , I live in Los Angeles and I love the sierra nevada mountains and I want to live somewhere within the mountains here in california.. I am considering a town called visalia near sequoia national park and I am also thinking about moving to truckee. From everything I hear about truckee it sounds great!, Except for the high price of living and houses..I am wondering what are the advantages of living in truckee and what is not so good about the area such as, weather, jobs, houses, schools..and over all quality of life. If you have any ideas let me know, thanks...

[ferretkona]

Originally Posted by mountainmaneddie

,,,I am wondering what are the advantages of living in truckee and what is not so good about the area such as, weather, jobs, houses, schools..and over all quality of life. If you have any ideas let me know, thanks...

My experience of living in small northern towns is. - You read the obituaries to see what jobs are available.

[akm4]

That's hilarious. So true. I grew up in Plumas COunty and most of these would work there too.

My daughter was born in June, and guess what? It snowed