June 11, 2006 - You know you're from Tahoe when...

You know you're from Tahoe when...

1. You know four different seasons; warm enough to swim in the lake, 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 through Tahoe City and point out every tourist on the sidewalk.

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, nor skate.

6. You use the second lane at the Y to pass unsuspecting tourists.

7. According to you, pine trees, lakes, rivers, and snow covered mountains are nothing spectacular.

8. You go to a different state to go to the movies, mall, home depot, costco, etc.

9. You can laugh at the non-locals that pay $72 to ski Squaw, when you get a ticket for $5.

10. You laugh at people from Truckee that wear Keep Tahoe Local clothing, not realizing the vicious irony that they actually live in Tahoe's retarded redneck cousin. Imagine Elton John wearing a confederate flag..... let that gem sink in.

11. AYSO was more popular than Pop Warner when you were a kid.

12. Wool boots are a necessity, not a fashion. And they're not called fucking Uggs.

13. You can't make it through a public place without being recognized by 12 people, minimum.

14. The majority of parties you've been to took place around a campfire in the woods.

15. All you did in Autoshop was powerwash your friends' cars.

16. You know that there really are such things as 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've been in a freestyle rap battle at a campfire.

19. You have made fun of Nevada over 1000 times in the last 2 days, despite the fact that you go to Reno for everything.

20. Hooky bobbing is a competetive sport.

21. You know which clerks at 7-11 don't ID.

22. You've been through a monstrous snow storm the last week of school, as in early June.

23. Against all logic, you wear flip-flops in December... just to spite the snow. Yeah that's right snow. Fuck you.

24. Your idea of a party is at a place named Watson, Barker, Blackwood or Sandhill.

25. During the summer, you get vicious with non-locals who discover Buck's Beach.

26. When Asian tourists pull over on highway 28 and ask where the lake is.

27. You know the Cushing Classic is not a type of mattress.

28. You go to coastal towns where everyone around you is in jackets freezing, and you in shorts and a t-shirt wondering what all the fuss is about.

29. You know 4 professional skiiers and/or snowboarders, and are related to atleast one of them.

30. You know people are only local if they have lived in Tahoe for more than 10 years.

31. You've been through a snow storm so long and so bad that there was a gas shortage, Safeway ran out of food and could not receive shipments, and you had to travel by snowmobile.

32. Going to parties usually means a fun sprint from the cops is included.

33. You're entire highschool student body is smaller than most LA schools' graduating classes.

34. You've mobbed your sedan up Watson Peak or Sandhill.

35. You've gotten a ticket for being dragged behind a snowmobile on a saucer.... out on the main road.

36. You were in Jack Frost, or at least tried to be, and can recognize 5 people from the snowball fight.

37. You know T's Burritos is the ONLY reason to go to Incline.

38. Even if a lake/river is freezing over, it is still swimming material.

39. You have seen a motorboat made of wood and not shit a brick.

40. Someone in front of you going less than 55 on West River Rd., 267, Mt Rose pass, or any Lake Blvd pisses you off.

41. 65 degrees is warm.

42. When it's snowing so hard that any mountain pass is closed, and you still have to go to school.

43.You know Tahoe Raft and Gas will always be about the raft girls, never the gas.

44. You use tourists for sandwich throwing practice.

45. 4th of July is more important than Christmas, Cinco de Mayo, AND New Year's Eve.

46. You want to leave as soon as you graduate . . . but you'll come back as much as you can.

47. You know the Lake is part of California, and that Incline and Stateline are just poseurs.

48. You remember what the grocery store was called before Alberson's bought it,and you and your friends pass the time by hanging out in the parking lot, waiting to hear about a party.

49. People can say "Little Mexico" or "The Grid" and you know what they're talking about.

50. You despise Truckee because of its inhabitants' haughty redneck attitude and the town's obliviousness to its own sad existence. You've already got your own little shite lake and flat ski area, you obese truck stop. You're not part of Tahoe.

51. You have been the third owner of a beater ass Subaru.

52. There's nothing to do at 2am, so you and all your friends meet at the Biltmore for the beefy breakfast special.

53. You see random ass 7-11 clerks at every party you go to.

54. You know Carson City is the biggest waste of space on the planet.

55. The ACTUAL population of your town is less than the elevation.

56. You know what Income village is. And, if you live there, you know everyelse in Tahoe is just jealous.

57. You wonder how someone can be against SUVs.