YOU KNOW YOURE FROM SACRAMENTO WHEN: You pronounce Sacramento SACRAMENNO. Wearing purple, black and silver is a fashion statement. Drivers think a stop sign is just a suggestion and a yellow light means gun it to 80. You know parking in midtown or downtown is nearly impossible. The best restaurants in town start with El or Los. People break out coats when the temperature drops below 70. You can cross a street and go from a rich neighborhood to a poor neighborhood. You still dont know your way around downtown. You complain about traffic and the cost of living. You notice people will put 22 inch rims on ANYTHING! You laugh when a Southern Californian refers to I-5 as the 5. You know that not everyone in California surfs. On the weekend you can always find something to do but you have to drive to get there. Someone mentions the State Fair and you immediately think of the riot and a kid flying from the ferris wheel. The closest thing to a beach Sacramento has is Folsom Lake and the American River . Driving less than 70 on the freeway is unacceptable. You know not to take Watt, Sunrise, Florin, Howe, Laguna, Calvine, Hazel, Arden, El Camino, Marconi, Power Inn, Fulton, Madison, Greenback, Fruitridge, Broadway, Mack, 65th Street, Power Inn, Elk Grove-Florin, Bradshaw, Franklin, Folsom, Freeport, Fair Oaks, etc; basically any roads....at 8am, 12pm, or 5pm. You swear there was an open field there last week, where now there are houses and a Starbucks. Its taken you more time to drive from Elk Grove to Roseville than from Sac to San Francisco . When it rains, all the news stations predict that massive and destructive flooding will occur. You know we have a big fort in midtown. Friends come in from out of town and comment on the fog, and your response is Oh, its not that bad today, I can see the house across the street. You would kill the man who said anything bad about In-N-Out. You have friends that go or you go to Chipotle at least once a week. You have said hella and are proud to be from NorCal. Youre willing to wait 60-90+ minutes for a table at a restaurant on a weekend night. You know what Evangelines is. You know what ARC, SCC and CRC stand for. Youve never actually been into the State Capitol, but youve passed it on numerous occasions while lost downtown. You stood around for hours to watch the filming of John Travoltas movie Numbers in the Fab Forties. You know that Tom Hanks went to Sac State and Eddie Murphy lives here. Youve heard rumors for years that the drive-in movies are being torn down, but you still go at least once a summer because theyre still there. Almost everyday from June to September is a Spare the Air Day. You consider Placerville just a place to stop and pee on the way to and from Tahoe. You laugh when you flip on Channel 3 and see the reporters up in Blue Canyon in the winter. Being out when its 100+ degrees in the summer is normal. Youve probably ran over or almost ran over one chicken in Old Fair Oaks. Youve seen the capitol building so many times it doesnt really mean much anymore. You can tell who is from out of town because they are amazed by it. You remember when there was nothing around Arco Arena. Youre confused when you see something open past 9pm other than Target, Wal-Mart and Mervyns. You went to SCC and had to park in Land Park and run across the golf course so you wouldnt be late. You drive by a gas station on the way to work and gas is one price. When you drive by on the way home, the price has changed. The prospect of the ocean rising 10 feet doesnt scare you, youre at an elevation of 20 feet. You pass that big red thing in Roseville on the freeway and still have no idea what it is.
Posted on: Sat, 15 Mar 2014 21:01:07 +0000
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