Artemis: You Know You Live in Washington When... >>

• Someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don’t work there
   
• you’ve had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone… who dialed the wrong number (this is how my parents met!)
   
• you have switched from ‘heat’ to ‘A/C’ and back again in the same day
   
• you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching
   
• you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction
   
• you know more than 10 ways to order coffee
   
• you consider that if it has no snow or has not recently erupted, it is not a real mountain
   
• you can taste the difference between Starbucks, Seattle’s Best, and Tullys, you live in Washington
   
• you know the difference between Chinook, Coho and Sockeye salmon, you live in Washington
   
• you know how to pronounce Sequim, Puyallup, Issaquah, Snoqualmie, Wenatchee, Spokane, Umpqua, Yakima, and Willamette
   
• you think people who use umbrellas are either wimps or tourists, you live in Washington
   
• you buy new sunglasses every year because you cannot find the old ones after such a long time

This is so true.