You know you're a Coloradoan if.... (Boulder, Buena Vista: car insurance, house, live)

[Snowbird]

1. You switch from "Heat" to "A/C" in one day
2. You know what the "Peoples Republic of Boulder" means.
3. Your sense of direction is: towards the mountains and away from the mountains.
4. You're a meat-eating vegetarian.
5. The bike on your car is worth more than your car and you have your own special bike lane.
6. You're able to drive 65 miles per hour through 13 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without even flinching.
7. You take your out-of-town guests to Casa Bonita even though you would never go there otherwise.
8. You think your major food groups are granola bars, tofu and Fat Tire beer.
9. You design your kid's Halloween costumes to fit over a snowsuit.
10. You think that sexy lingerie is wool socks and flannel PJs.
11. You know all 4 seasons "almost winter, winter, still winter and spring blizzards
12. You've been tear gassed in a riot to celebrate a CU/CSU victory.
13. You can never figure out why your out-of-town guests faint from altitude sickness on a picnic to the mountains.
14. You can drive over a 12,000-foot pass in 4 feet of snow, but can't get to work if there are 4 inches of snow.
15. You know the 'correct' pronunciation of Buena Vista.
16. When you visit friends at sea level, you can drink a case of beer and not get a buzz.
17. Your car insurance costs more than your car.
18. You have surge protectors on every outlet.
19. April showers bring May blizzards.
20. 'Timberline' is someplace you have actually been.
21. You know what a 'Chinook' is.
22. You know what a 'Rocky Mountain Oyster' is.
23. You know what a "fourteener" is.
24. But you don't know what a "turn signal" is.
25. A bear on your front porch doesn't bother you nearly as much as a Democrat in Congress does.
26. Your golf bag has a 9-iron, a 3-wood and a lightning rod.
27. You know who Alfred Packer was and what he did.
28. You know who Baby Doe Tabor was.
29. SPF 90 is not out of the question.
30. People from out of state breathe 5 times as often as you do.
31. Having a Senator named Nighthorse doesn't seem strange.
32. Thunder has set off your car alarm.
33. A full moon has never kept you awake at night.
34. You have an $800 stereo in your $300 truck.
35. A sudden loss of cabin pressure is not a big deal.
36. You think a red light means 3 more cars can go.
37. Where we're going, we don't need roads!!
38. You know where Doc Holliday's grave is.
39. You know where Buffalo Bill's grave is.
40. You know where the real "South Park" is.
41. You can recognize the license plates of all 50 states on sight
42. Driving directions usually include 'Go over _________ Pass.'
43. You've 'checked for ticks'
44. You've dressed in shorts, sandals, and a parka with a hood.
45. You've gone snow skiing in July and...
46. You've played golf in January and.....
47. They were in the same year!
48. You've urinated on the Continental Divide just so it could 'run into both oceans'
49. And most important: You get a certain satisfaction knowing that California and Texas are both downstream.
50. You know what a down slope and an up slope weather pattern is ..
51. You actually understand these jokes and send them to your Colorado friends.

[SevenAteSix]

too classic!

cept I like the democratic congressmen we have

[2bindenver]

that's a riot.

I'd add: "I'm goin' to Red Rocks" is heard at your house every summer.

[SouthDenverGuy]

Snowbird, one of my favorites! It's all good! Great life here!

[concoulor3]

Your Out of Towners, at dusk, say "Look at all those birds coming out of that Cottonwood" and you, of course, know to worry more about rabies from bats than from cats!

[lorrwill]

LOL!!!
I don't know which is worse: that after having not lived there for over 20 years, I am reading this going "so that's why I do that" or that I was already copying it to send to my CO to CA transplant friends when I got to #51 "You actually understand these jokes and send them to your Colorado friends."

You don't want to know how long having the mountains to the east instead of to the west messed me up. :-)

Oh! And let up not forget the stampeding herds of Jackalopes...

[gpraceman]

All too true. I love it!

Of course, 49 and 50 should be reversed.

[bashep]

Sooo funny! Thank you for the good laugh today! As a native I really got a kick out of it! bashep

[Mike from back east]

Originally Posted by gpraceman

All too true. I love it! Of course, 49 and 50 should be reversed.

Gee, what good is a Moderator if he/she can't re-sequence a few things now and then.....DONE!

s/Mike

[LLHOULE]

Ahh My Buenie listed again!! yeah. from a Buena Vista native.. And you know if you are a true Broncos fan is.. Why did god make sunsets orange?