you're from colorado if.....

here's an email i got the other day: 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. You have no accent at all, but can hear other people's. And then you make fun of them. "Humid" is 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 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 went to Casa Bonita as a kid. 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 you wonder if it's going to snow tomorrow. You don't care that some company renamed it, the Broncos still play at Mile High (barack obama got it right). Every movie theater has military and student discounts. Everybody wears jeans to church. You actually know that South Park is a real place not just a show on TV. You know what a 'trust fund hippy' is, and you know its natural habitat is Boulder (people's republic). You know you're talking to a fellow Coloradoan (hmm...suspect "o" in that word) when they call it Elitches, not Six Flags. A bear on your front porch doesn't bother you. Your two favorite teams are the Broncos and whoever is beating the *&%# out of the Raiders (especially on monday night football)! You've been to the original Chipotle near the DU campus on Evans (go pioneers!). When people out East tell you they have mountains in their state too, you just laugh (paoli peaks in indiana). You go anywhere else on the planet and the air feels 'sticky' and you notice the sky is no longer blue. what would you add to the list?

being a native coloradan (i would take the second "o" out of coloradoan because that's how we say it) i can relate to so much of this. i would also point out that many coloradans don't ski (well i don't know any, but i've heard of them).