| By: Paul S. Cilwa | Viewed: 5/1/2024 |
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| Topics: #Arizona #Humor | |||
| Humorous list of Arizona's more challenging aspects. | |||
- You can say
115 degrees
without fainting. - You can be in the snow, then drive for an hour and it will be over 100 degrees.
- You notice your car overheating before you drive it.
- You have to go to a fake beach for some fake waves.
- You discover, in July, that it only takes two fingers to drive your car.
You can make sun tea instantly.- You run your air conditioner in the middle of winter so you can use your fireplace.
- You can say
Hohokam
and people don't think you're laughing funny. - You no longer associate bridges (or rivers) with water.
- You notice the best parking place is determined by shade instead of by distance.
- You see more irrigation water on the street than there is in the Salt River.
- You know a swamp cooler is not a happy hour drink.
- You realize that Valley Fever isn't a disco dance.
- Hotter water comes from the cold water tap than from the hot one.
- You can pronounce the words,
saguaro,
Tempe,
Gila Bend,
San Xavier,
Canyon de Chelly,
Mogollon Rim,
cholla,
Ajo, and
Tlaquepaque.
- You actually burn your hand opening the car door.
- You give up on the idea of washing your car until October, because the dust storms will just get it dirty again anyway.
You know what a dust devil is.- Umbrellas are not for rain. In fact, they aren't even waterproof.
- Sunscreen is sold year round, kept at the front of the checkout counter.
- Some fool can market mini-misters for joggers and some other fools will actually buy them.
- Eight Scottish bagpipers from Canada, dressed in full regalia, pass out from heat prostration in February.
- A parade for the Phoenix Suns is held at 12:00 noon in June and 500,000 people turn out in 110-degree weather.
- Hot air balloons can't go up, because the air outside is hotter than the air inside.
- No one would dream of putting vinyl upholstery in a car.
- You've signed so many petitions to recall governors that you can't remember the name of the incumbent.
- You can understand the reason for a town named
Why
. - You read things entitled
You Know You're In Arizona!