You know you’re a true southern californian if (Los Angeles: clubs, smog)

[Harrier]

Originally Posted by denverian

When you're out on a freeway and hear of a Sigalert in your way, you can quickly figure in your head how to take other freeways to avoid it.

Or sidestreets

[Harrier]

Originally Posted by denverian

When you're out on a freeway and hear of a Sigalert in your way, you can quickly figure in your head how to take other freeways to avoid it.

When you want to move to another lane on a freeway, you don't turn on your signal, hoping someone will let you over. You look for an opening, then signal/move over at the same time.

When you're sitting at an on ramp meter, you look over at the car next to you and based on the power of that car, decide if you're going to go first, or conced the race to a more powerful vehicle.

You remember when the smog was so bad that your car would turn brown in summer.

You prefer AM PM over 7-11

You've ever talked someone into going somewhere with you just so you could use the carpool lanes

You understand the Coastal/Inland social hierarchy (anyone who lives closer to the coast than you is an a-hole, anyone who lives further inland than you is socially beneath you)

You really think everyone in the IE is a meth-addicted hillbilly

Your car payment is higher than your share of the rent on your apartment that you share with 6 other people

Yes, Harrier owns and used to drive a car.

I was LOL'ing through your entire post.

[Harrier]

Originally Posted by iagal

Migrant workers picking strawberries along the fields off the Ventura Freeway in Oxnard/Camarillo.

Just a few years a go, they were doing this just south of Disneyland and across from the Anaheim Convention Center.

Maybe they still do.

I haven't been down in that area for a while.

There was(or is) another strawberry field along the 605 somewhere between Pico Rivera and Irwindale.

I seem to recall a few down near Irvine.

[Harrier]

Originally Posted by Charles

You remember jellyfish at the beach (I haven't seen one in like 20 years, what happened to them all?)

Maybe they caught the same disease as did the bees.

[Harrier]

Originally Posted by Charles

You overcompensate for weather. It's one of those five days per year when the high temperature isn't above 60F so you see all these women in big heavy boots, long down coats, mittens, wool hats, and gloves. People turn their furnace to 80F and make big kettles of hot soup.

Menudo or pozole?

[denverian]

Originally Posted by Harrier

"We will beat anybody's price or your mattress is FREEEEEEE!!!"

"You are killing me, Larry!"

lol! What about Crazy Gideon? I don't think he's still around.

I moved to Denver 7 years ago and like it here, but still miss CA. Luckily I get KTLA on satellite so I can get my fix of good weather and LA commercials every now and then.

[denverian]

Originally Posted by Harrier

There is a 405 freeway in Seattle(it bypasses I-5 along the east side of Lake Washington).

Washingtonians call it "405" or "I-405".

Whenever I visit Seattle, I mark myself as being a southern Californian, because I say that I am taking the 405 to the 520 to the 5 to the 512 (Bothell to Puyallup(South Hill).

Alternatively, I could take the 405 to the 167 and get off on Meridian(and sit in traffic for an hour).

I noticed that in Seattle and didn't know that existed... bypass freeways (interstates) with the same number as other cities. But when I drove through the 405/5 interchange, I felt like I should be in Irvine!

[denverian]

Originally Posted by Harrier

Hah - I have tape broadcasts of KFI, KABC, and "KICK" FM (I think that they were on the same frequency as KJACK - "playing what we want", but they were a country station).

I can't find my tape players - they are around but I don't use them anymore.

When I know that I can talk to an 18 year old who will ask me "what is audio tape", I must be getting old.

Either that or the world has changed way too fast.

I remember when KROQ had Richard Blade as a DJ and was actually a cool station. And whatever happened to "Pirate Radio"?

[denverian]

Originally Posted by CaliDude1

I think you outrank me in SoCal seniority, Charles.

I was 714 in college, when I lived in Redlands for a couple years. I was still in 714 (city of Orange) when I left CA a few years ago and was happy to still have one of the old area codes. At some point I gave up on trying to remember all the new numbers.

[denverian]

Originally Posted by Harrier

You forgot riding a bike.

I am a white man and I do all those things - or did - before my bike was stolen.

Thank goodness for bike racks on buses.

If you see a white guy walking around or getting on a bus, it might be Harrier.

When I see a white guy on a bike, I assume he had a DUI