{"id":3686,"date":"2009-05-20T22:41:46","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T05:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/?p=3686"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:34:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:34:52","slug":"ah-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2009\/05\/20\/ah-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Ah, California"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know you are in California when:<\/p>\n

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  1. Your coworker has 8 body piercings and none are visible.<\/li>\n
  2. You make over $250,000 and still can’t afford a house.<\/li>\n
  3. You take a bus and are shocked at two people carrying on a conversation in English.<\/li>\n
  4. Your child’s 3rd grade teacher has purple hair, a nose ring, and is named Breeze.<\/li>\n
  5. You can’t remember…is pot illegal?<\/li>\n
  6. You’ve been to more than one baby shower that has two mothers and a sperm donor.<\/li>\n
  7. You have a very strong opinion about where your coffee beans are grown and can taste the difference between Sumatra and Ethiopian.<\/li>\n
  8. You also know which Brentwood restaurant serves the freshest arugula.<\/li>\n
  9. A really great parking space can move you to tears.<\/li>\n
  10. A low speed pursuit will interrupt any TV broadcast.<\/li>\n
  11. Gas cost 75 cents per gallon more than anywhere else in the U.S.<\/li>\n
  12. A man gets on the bus in full leather regalia and crotchless chaps. You don’t even notice.<\/li>\n
  13. A woman gets on the bus with live poultry. You don’t even notice.<\/li>\n
  14. Unlike back home, the guy at 8:30 am at Starbucks wearing the baseball cap and sunglasses who looks like George Clooney is<\/em> George Clooney.<\/li>\n
  15. Your car insurance costs as much as your house payment.<\/li>\n
  16. The gym is packed at 3 p.m. On a work day.<\/li>\n
  17. 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.<\/li>\n
  18. It’s sprinkling and there’s a report on every news station about “Storm Watch 09”.<\/li>\n
  19. You have to leave the big company meeting early because Billy Blanks himself is teaching the 4:00 Tae Bo class.<\/li>\n
  20. Your paperboy has a two-picture deal.<\/li>\n
  21. 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.<\/li>\n
  22. The weatherman talks about the weather in other parts of the country, as if we really care.<\/li>\n
  23. You pass an elementary school and the children are all busy with their cell phones or pagers.<\/li>\n
  24. It’s sprinkling outside, so you leave for work an hour or two early to avoid all the weather-related accidents.<\/li>\n
  25. You and your dog have therapists. <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    You know you are in California when: 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 two people carrying on a conversation in English. Your child’s 3rd grade teacher has purple hair, a nose ring, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-regional"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3686"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11670,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions\/11670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}