Your coworker has 8 body piercings and none are visible.
You make over $250,000 and still can't afford a house.
You take a bus and are shocked at 2 people carrying on a
conversation in English.
Your child's 3rd grade teacher has purple hair, a nose ring,
and is named Breeze.
You can't remember...is pot illegal?
You've been to more than one baby shower that has two mothers
and a sperm donor.
You have a very strong opinion about where your coffee beans are
grown and can taste the difference between Sumatra and Ethiopian.
You also know which Brentwood restaurant serves the freshest arugula.
A really great parking space can move you to tears.
A low speed pursuit will interrupt any TV broadcast.
Gas cost 75 cents per gallon more than anywhere else in the U.S.
A man gets on the bus in full leather regalia and crotchless
chaps. You don't even notice.
A woman gets on the bus with live poultry. You don't even notice.
Unlike back home, the guy at 8:30 am at Starbucks wearing the
baseball cap and sunglasses who looks like George Clooney is George Clooney.
Your car insurance costs as much as your house payment.
The gym is packed at 3 p.m. On a work day.
Your hairdresser is straight, your plumber is gay, the woman
who delivers your mail is into BDSM, and your Mary Kay rep is a guy in drag.
It's sprinkling and there's a report on every news station
about "Storm Watch 99".
You have to leave the big company meeting early because Billy
Blanks himself is teaching the 4:00 Tae Bo class.
Your paperboy has a two-picture deal.
The three-hour traffic jam you just sat through wasn't caused
by a horrific nine-car freeway pileup, but by everyone slowing to
rubberneck at a lost shoe lying on the shoulder.
The weatherman talks about the weather in other parts of the
country, as if we really care.
You pass an elementary school and the children are all busy
with their cell phones or pagers.
It's sprinkling outside, so you leave for work an hour or two
early to avoid all the weather-related accidents.