2. You don't consider exploding man hole covers to be an unusual occurrence.
3. You know where the Pentagon really is but never bother to correct anyone about its location.
5. It takes you 45 minutes to drive 3 miles on I-66, 95, 395, 495, 50, 123, 29, or 270, it's a pretty good day.
6. There are at least 15 ways to get everywhere and you know which way to go based on the weather, time of day, current political climate, terrorism road closures, and whether you are coming or going.
8. You criticize the size, year and features of your friend's cell phones.
9. You pay more money in parking tickets in a year than you do in medical bills, college costs and rent combined.
10. You actually know at what times the streets change directions and which direction they change to.
12. You know that driving through Georgetown you will hear the music of the car next to you louder than you can hear your own.
13. "I got stuck behind a motorcade" is a common and real excuse for being late.
15. You meet someone else from the DC area and the first things you ask them are where they went to school and what they do for a living.
16. You've never once been to a Wal-Mart and don't even know if there is one.
17. 'Getting in a workout' sometimes takes precedence over actually having dinner.
18. You've ever had to explain to someone that there's more to Arlington than a big cemetery.
19. You've ever given directions to a woman in a mini-van looking for 'thaa whyyyyyite house' when you were stopped at the red light on 15th and Pennsylvania Ave, NW.
20. You say you're going to the mall and you don't mean shopping.
21. You know the Old Post Office doesn't sell stamps, yet point tourists there anyway.
22. You can take the Metro to another state.
23. You will never refer to the 'Metro' as
the 'subway.'
24. You elbow tourists out of the way on the metro escalators to 'gently' remind them to WALK LEFT, STAND RIGHT.
25. You actually block out time in your schedule for the escalator ride at DuPont Circle, Rosslyn or Tenleytown.
27. You don't bat an eye at 500 politicians and businessmen in suits running like their lives depended on it just to catch a metro that will be followed by another in 90 seconds.
28. The 90 year old woman trying to physically battle the metro door to get in after it's closed seems to be behaving in a 'perfectly normal' manner.
29. You call it Targét, not Target, and are well aware that the one in Alexandria is just a 'tad
different.'
30. You describe traffic moving 1 mile in 15 minutes as "not that bad."
32. You're either a Lawyer, Lobbyist, Politician, Student or IT professional and seem confused and perplexed when someone informs you they don't fit one of the above categories.
33. You can tell by people's cars (and how they drive them) where they live and maybe even what neighborhood.
34. You claim that there's nothing to do on a weekend night even when you have the entire nation's capitol to explore.
35. You dress like you're going out to a club, but you just drive around Georgetown instead.
36. You have the metro map memorized, yet act like you don't know when someone asks you how to get to Metro Center.
37. You meet someone else who says they're from the DC area and you realize they live two hours away from you.
38. You notice that there's been construction on the same stretch of highway for the past 5 years and you never see anyone working on it.
39. You know you've crossed into Northern Virginia, without ever seeing a sign, only because your speedometer goes from 60 to 0.
40. You know that Vietnam is no longer in the South Pacific, it's now been relocated to Seven Corners.
41. The few times you have gotten lost in DC you have somehow ALWAYS ended up in Anacostia and every road out somehow leads back to Anacostia.
42. People from outside the area are thrown off by your sarcasm.
43. People from outside the area are constantly telling you to 'slow down 'and 'relax.'
44. You realize that I-395 is Northern Virginia's version of NASCAR. We don't watch it, we just do it.
45. There is no such thing as north, south, east, or west on the beltway, it's just go "that" way!
46. You go anywhere on the Eastern Shore, Rehoboth, Dewey, Ocean City, Skyline Drive, or the Outer Banks for vacation and everyone you meet is from DC
