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[paperclippy]

You Are 26 Years Old

26 Under 12: You are a kid at heart. You still have an optimistic life view - and you look at the world with awe. 13-19: You are a teenager at heart. You question authority and are still trying to find your place in this world. 20-29: You are a twentysomething at heart. You feel excited about what's to come... love, work, and new experiences. 30-39: You are a thirtysomething at heart. You've had a taste of success and true love, but you want more! 40+: You are a mature adult. You've been through most of the ups and downs of life already. Now you get to sit back and relax.

What Age Do You Act?

Taken from http://www.blogthings.com/Los-Angeles.html -- I'm only reproducing the good ones here:

You're sitting in traffic for at least an hour at any given part of the day

You begin to "lie" to your friends about where you are (i.e. "Yeah I'm like 20 minutes away") - when you know that it'll take you at least an hour to get there).

You eat a different ethnic food for every meal

You know it's best not to be on the 405 at 4:05 pm.

Getting anywhere from point A to point B, no matter what the distance, takes about "twenty minutes".

You know what "sigalert", "PCH", and "the five" mean. [hee hee hee, this is my favorite]

Your TV show is interrupted by a police chase.

You can't fall asleep without the lull of a helicopter flying overhead.

You've ever bought oranges, flowers, cherries or peanuts on a freeway off-ramp.

You've started crossing a street and returned to the curb when the DON'T WALK sign started flashing.

When giving directions , you follow up with the phrase: "With/Without traffic."

You classify new people you meet by their Area Code. An "818" would never date a "562" and anyone from "323" or "213" is ghetto/second class. Best area code: "310."

Calling your neighbors requires knowing their area code.

You have a favorite Thai restaurant.

You think Johnnny Rocket's is an accurate depiction of a diner.

You eat pineapple on pizza.

You've been to Disneyland more times than Downtown.

You know that if you drive two miles in any direction you will find a McDonald's or a Starbucks.

You are awakened in the middle of the night by a moderate earthquake. Your reply: "That ain't even a 5-pointer" and go back to sleep.

You think you are better than the people who live "Over the Hill". It don't matter which side of the hill you are currently residing, you are just better than them, for whatever reason.

You live 10 miles from work. It takes you 60 minutes to get home.

You have to yell at your bank teller through a 2 inch thick wall of plexi-glass.

You know what In N Out is and feel bad for all the other states because they don't have any.

You say you live in LA when really you live in a subsection of a subsection of a subsection of southern LA.

You really can never be too rich or too thin.

It's sprinkling and there's a report on every news station about "STORM WATCH '99"

You call 911 and they put you on hold. [this one is sad, but very true]

The three hour traffic jam you just sat through wasn't caused by a horrific 9 car pile-up, but by everyone slowing to rubberneck at a lost shoe lying on the shoulder.

All the "cool gyms" allow pedestrians on the street a full-view of those working out. Literally, you can’t drive by Wilshire without staring into L.A. Fitness. Perhaps a new form of window shopping?

Bars card. For real.

You Are a German Shepherd Puppy

Intelligent, quick witted, and a bit aggressive. You've got the jaw power to take a bite out of anyone you choose.

What Breed of Puppy Are You?

Comments

[kitty-tape.livejournal.com]

And you know you're from Seattle if you read that list and you think "2 miles? For a Starbucks?!?".

[2gouda4u.livejournal.com]

No kidding. Not so much for me (I live(d) in the woods in Kent), but when I worked in Bellevue for a summer, there were two Starbucks about a block away from each other, I believe both within sight of the building I worked in.

[paperclippy.livejournal.com]

This must be an outdated quiz, because I went to the Starbucks store locator website and there are no less than SEVEN Starbucks within 2 miles of my house. I am sad that there are so few Starbucks in Rhode Island!

[silentmonster.livejournal.com]

hey, i've been a 213, 323, and 310.

SO true. All of them.

[afroninja.livejournal.com]

They forgot about the 909. Good ol' Inland Empire.

BUT I HAVE A 310 CELL PHONE NOW!!! Oh, I am SO best.

[thumbie.livejournal.com]

Those were great. You begin to "lie" to your friends about where you are (i.e. "Yeah I'm like 20 minutes away") - when you know that it'll take you at least an hour to get there). Yea, that's one of those things that I always catch myself doing, because I don't want to believe that I'm going to sit on the freeway for that long. It's like, why don't I want to be honest with people about when I'll be there? It's like I want to be too cool for traffic or something, like I'll just "get around it."

[2gouda4u.livejournal.com]

You know what "sigalert", "PCH", and "the five" mean.

Yeah. "The five" means I-5, because Southern Californians are weird.

You've started crossing a street and returned to the curb when the DON'T WALK sign started flashing.

I don't get it... are they claiming that Southern Californians don't jaywalk? Or that drivers are so crazy here that they'll driver over anyone in there way?

[paperclippy.livejournal.com]

I think that people in LA generally don't jaywalk, especially compared to people, say, on the east coast, who sometimes don't even look to see if the sign says "walk" or "don't walk" before stepping into the street.