
You might be from Eastern Washington If......
1. You refuse to cheat and use the car pool lane in Seattle when you are driving by yourself.
2. You don't know what a car pool lane is.
3. You know all the best Indian reservations to go to get sweet fireworks.
4. You've ever washed your car just to have a dust storm drop sand on it half an hour later.
5. You laugh whenever you hear the rest of the country crying about 90 degree weather and how horrible it is.
6. You have ever wondered how it is that we could possibly be experiencing a drought when one of the largest rivers in the country is just a few miles away.
7. It's not a real windstorm until trees start falling over.
8. You stop at Miners every single trip you take to Yakima with your entire basketball, volleyball, or any other team from highschool.
9. You laugh at anyone who doesn’t know what Miners is
10. You've ever crossed the mountain range and forgotten you are actually still in washington.
11. You wonder what they were thinking when they nicknamed Washington "The Evergreen State"
12. You know that Ellensburg is the middle of the state and have seen the plaque on Central's campus that says so
13. You get annoyed by the fact that everyone you know votes Republican, and yet the Governor and both Senators are Democrats
14. You despise Californians who bring their bad habits and hate crimes to our state as the west siders sell their house to one for twice its value.
15. You think you are invincible with 4 wheel drive.
16. You have Appreciation for Native American Culture.
17. You know and use the word wazzu
18. You refer to the stretch of rocks between the trees and the cold water on the west side as "the beach"...and you've actually been excited to go there.
19. you measure tumbleweeds in feet
20. you've aimed for tumbleweeds as they cross the freeway
21. Liberals are on the protected species list
22. You've been to the Waterfollies
23. someone in your immediate family works at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation
24. you go to Spokane or the Tri-cities to shop
25. you get confused when you go to the west side and see one big huge city, and then people there can tell you that there are actually hundreds of cities there, and can point out the dividing lines.
26. many people you know own snowmobiles, quads, and water craft, and can use them all regularly and year-round
27.you dominate western Washington in everything from sports to academics to political debates to overall awesomeness.
28. you realize that there is more to life than saving the environment
29. you live in the only desert in the evergreen state
30. you ask directions when visiting the westside and get upset that it takes an hour to get somewhere after you were told "only about 15 minutes from here"
31. you hear about a multi-car pile-up during a dust storm and know it was caused by someone from the west side.
32. the hill behind your house burns at least once a year, maybe more.
33. You can't see through the fence for all the tumbleweeds piled against it.
34. you know walla walla is a real town, not just a name in a cartoon
35. you install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked at night
36. you think driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow
37. you know all four seasons of the year. All four to extremes, who else can say that.
38. You know where Tree Top Apple Juice is made.
39. The neighboring city refuses to call a snow day when there is fourteen feet of snow on the street, just because they think your city should call it first
40. Your only exposure to big bands was at the county fair, or at the gorge.