‘LIVING IN OREGON’… Jeff Foxworthy style · 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. A couple I would add from my experience: · If you accidentally kill more deer with your bumper than you and your hunting party did all year with rifles or bows, you live in Oregon. · If you ever drove to another state, pulled into a gas station, and had a stare down with the attendant because they did not come to pump your gas, you live in Oregon. · If you can tell the difference between Tillamook cheese and cheese made elsewhere, you live in Oregon. · If you call them filberts instead of hazelnuts, you live in Oregon. · If you believe the Civil War is something that still happens every year, you live in Oregon. · If you consider tennis and swimming to be indoor sports, you live in Oregon. · If your weather report uses several other terms for rain, you live in Oregon. (Sprinkles, showers, drizzle, mist, downpour
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