| YOU MIGHT BE FROM COLORADO IF: You carry your $3,000 mountain bike on top of your $500 car. You have a business degree and are frying burgers at a Mcdonald's in Vail. You own a big dog named Aspen, Buck, Cheyenne, or Dakota that wears a bandanna. The entire top of your head is bald, but you still have a pony tail. You think that formal wear is ironed denim. North means "mountains to the left"; south is "mountains to the right"; and east and west are where all those other people keep moving in from. You consider a three-piece suit to be a pair of shorts, a sweatshirt and Birkenstocks. You think "South Park" is a place to stop for gas on your way to Buena Vista. You have a flat tire in your refrigerator and your garage. You tell your husband to pick up granola on his way home from work and he stops at the day care. When you hear �pass�, you don�t think of either football or women. You are 82 years old and take up snowboarding. You personally wouldn't pay $10 per head to drive up Pikes Peak unless it was the only mountain on earth, but you tell all your house-guests to do it. You get depressed after one day of foggy weather. You wear the latest fashions a year after they went out of style. You go anywhere else on the planet and the air feels "sticky" and you notice the sky is no longer blue. You see your East Coast relatives now more than when you lived there. Your bridal registry is at REI. You can run up 10 flights of stairs without huffing and puffing. Hummingbirds and bears visit your bird feeder. You have a snow shovel, hiking boots, and sunscreen with SPF 50 in the back of your pickup truck. Your hands are so chapped in the winter you are able to exfoliate your face with your very own fingertips. You cast out your fishing line while white-water rafting. |
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