You know you are in COLORADO when:
- You switch from heat to air-conditioning in the same day.
- You can travel 54 miles and go from 80-degrees to 26-degrees.
- Your sense of direction is towards the mountains or away from the mountains.
- You think a red light means 3 more cars can go and a green light means wait for the
traffic.
- A red light means turn right, make a U-turn, and turn right again or just go if no one
else is.
- You take visitors to Casa Bonita, but would not go there otherwise.
- Your visitors wonder where the guard-rails are and hang onto the dash board.
- Your visitors faint at 12,000 feet but you don't even notice when a plane loses cabin
pressure.
- You see that every other car is a 4-wheel drive and the rest are construction trucks.
- You get first use of water and your waste water flows to 19 other states (usually
North).
- Your lakes are reservoirs and your rivers are creeks.
- You are banned from using outside water during the winter.
- You find yourself wandering in a mud flat and not knowing if it is a reservoir or a golf
course.
- You design Halloween costumes to fit over a snow suit.
- You can drive over a 12,000 foot pass in 4-feet of snow, but can't get to work if there
is 4-inches of snow.
- Your car seems to need a tune-up at 6,000 feet, overheats at 8,000 feet, and won't run
at 10,000 feet.
- Interstate highways are parking lots and certainly the other lane is moving faster.
- You notice that Eagles nest lower than your living room and rattle snakes don't like
high altitude.
- You plant trees for the Elk and flowers for the deer, but weeds go untouched.
- You are struck by lightning no matter where you are hiding.
- You find the wind blowing 65 mph just on your side of the road.
- You know the correct pronunciation of Buena Vista and Cannon City.
- You enjoy April showers which bring May blizzards.
- You know what Chinook means and what a Rocky Mountain oyster is.
- You know what a Fourteener is, but don't know what a turn signal is.
- You know who Alfred Packer and Baby Doe Tabor were.
- You know where Doc Holiday and Buffalo Bill are buried.
- You go skiing in July and sunbathing in January.
- You wear shorts, hiking boots, and a parka.
- You live here because:
- The sun always shines,
- You are already half-way to any place in the country that you want to get to, and
- Everywhere else has bad weather.
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