I'm From Colorado

Making the e-mail rounds.

A winter statistic:
98% OF AMERICANS SCREAM BEFORE GOING IN THE DITCH ON A SLIPPERY ROAD. THE OTHER 2% ARE FROM COLORADO AND THEY SAY, 'HOLD MY SODA AND WATCH THIS.


You're from Colorado if:

-You'll eat ice cream in the winter.

-When the weather report says it's going to be 65 degrees, you shave your legs and wear a skirt.

-It snows 5 inches and you don't expect school to be canceled.

-You'll wear flip flops every day of the year, regardless of temperature (Only true if you are a college student).

-You have no accent at all, but can hear other people's. And then you make fun of them.

-"Humid" is anything over 25%.

-Your sense of direction is: "Toward the mountains" and "Away from the mountains."

-You say "The Interstate" and everybody knows which one.

-You think that May is a totally normal month for a blizzard.

-You buy your flowers to set out on Mother's day, but try and hold off planting them until just before Father's day.

-You grew-up planning your Halloween costumes around your coat.

-You know what the Continental Divide is.

-You don't think Coors beer is that big a deal.

-You've been to Casa Bonita as a kid and/or as an adult more than once.

-You've gone off-roading in a vehicle that was never intended for such activities.

-You always know the elevation of where you are.

-You wake up to a beautiful 80 degree day and wonder if it's going to snow tomorrow.

-You don't care that some company renamed it, the Broncos still play at Mile High Stadium (NPR agrees).

-Every movie theater has military and student discounts.

-Everybody wears jeans to church.

-You actually know that South Park is a real place and not just a TV show.

-You know what a "trust fund hippy" is and you know its natural habitat is Boulder.

-You know you're talking to a fellow Coloradoan when they call it Elitch's, not Six Flags (This one is no longer true as Six Flags sold the park and the new owners are calling it Elitch's again).

-A bear on your front porch doesn't bother you.

-Your two favorite teams are the Broncos and whoever is beating the crap out of the Raiders.

-When people out East tell you they have mountains in their state too, you just laugh.

-When you go anywhere else on the planet you find that the air feels "sticky" and the sky is no longer blue.