Many of you know that I grew up in the Sierra Nevadas in this little town called Kings Beach on the North Shore of Lake Tahoe. While growing up there I wanted so badly to move away...I never realize just how beautiful it was there....But as you read the following list, you will understand I little of why I NEEDED TO GET AWAY! I still love Tahoe and will always call it home..but dont expect a homecoming anytime soon!!! The following edited list came to me in an email.....from an old friend.....thought it was funny and needed to share! 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 (and the accompanying smell), lakes, rivers, and snow covered mountains are nothing spectacular. 8. You go to a different state to go to the movies, taco bell, friends houses, ice cream, 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. 11. AYSO was more popular than Pop Warner when you were a kid. 12. Wool boots (AKA Uggs) are a necessity, not a fashion. We had them long before everyone else. 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. You know that there really are such things as summer concerts for 5 dollars or less at the door. 16. You hang out with the same people you did in kindergarten... because there is no one else. 17. You have made fun of Nevada over 1000 times in the last 2 days, despite the fact that you go to Reno for everything. 18. You've been through a monstrous snow storm the last week of school, as in early June. 19. Against all logic, you wear flip-flops in December... just to spite the snow. 20. 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. 21. You know 4 professional skiiers and/or snowboarders, and are related to at least one of them. 22. You know people are only local if they have lived in Tahoe for more than 10 years. 23. 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. 24. You're entire highschool student body is smaller than most LA schools' graduating classes. 25. You've gotten a ticket for being dragged behind a snowmobile on a saucer.... out on the main road. 26. You were in Jack Frost, or at least tried to be, and can recognize 5 people from the snowball fight. 27. You know T's Burritos is the best reason to go to Incline. 28. Even if a lake/river is freezing over, it is still swimming material, especially at night. 29. You have seen a motorboat made of wood 30. Someone in front of you going less than 55 on West River Rd., 267, Mt Rose pass, or any Lake Blvd it upsets you! 31. 65 degrees is warm. 32. When it's snowing so hard that any mountain pass is closed, and you still have to go to school. 33. You want to leave as soon as you graduate . . . but you'll come back as much as you can. 34. You know California is the ghetto part of the Lake. 35. You remember what the grocery store was called before Albertson's bought it 36. People can say "Little Mexico" or "The Grid" and you know what they're talking about. 37. You have been the third owner of a beat up Subaru. 38. You know Carson City is the biggest waste of space on the planet. 39. The ACTUAL population of your town is less than the elevation. 40. You know what Income village is. And, if you live there, you know everyelse in Tahoe is just jealous. 41. You wonder how someone can be against SUVs. 42. You know better than to think your car will make it through the snow brim in the center of highway 50. |
