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[jadefirefly]

We all have things about our respective living locales that are odd, quirky, or just plain weird. I suggest we pool 'em together and see who's got the strangest.
(Note: I know some of y'all prefer not to mention with any great detail where you live. That's okay! You can use a former living location, or maybe a friend's that you've visited! )

I'll start.

Only in Arizona... can you go to a Chinese buffet restaurant, and the big screen TV is tuned to Telemundo, watching a Mexican music awards ceremony.


On second thought, perhaps I should have said, only in Arizona, can you go to a Chinese buffet restaurant... with a big screen TV?

 

[graceanne]

dumb laws

Only in Oregon is it against the law to pump your own gas.

Only in Oregon can you get a ticket for not letting someone jaywalk.

 

[NemoAlia]

Every time I try to think of something funny to add, it turns out cynical and bitter. Maybe this means I should move?

Anyhow: Only in Oklahoma do the Democrats host monthly cornbread'n'beans dinners.

Or, if you'd like, only in Oklahoma do you pass the following every time you go out jogging: http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f118/NemoAlia/BurnedOut.jpg

I wish I had a photo of the house that is covered in hand-painted plywood signs that say "Pray for rain."

 

[BeachGurl2]

We all have things about our respective living locales that are odd, quirky, or just plain weird. I suggest we pool 'em together and see who's got the strangest.
(Note: I know some of y'all prefer not to mention with any great detail where you live. That's okay! You can use a former living location, or maybe a friend's that you've visited! )

I'll start.

Only in Arizona... can you go to a Chinese buffet restaurant, and the big screen TV is tuned to Telemundo, watching a Mexican music awards ceremony.


On second thought, perhaps I should have said, only in Arizona, can you go to a Chinese buffet restaurant... with a big screen TV?

Jade, that one is pretty good. Also in Arizona ~ in the Northeast Valley. An Italian/Mexican Restaurant. Yes, with authentic Mexican food and real Chicago style pizza. LMFAO.

 

[Xelebes]

Only in Edmonton...

They have Mexican restaurants with little bean or spiciness content due to the sensibilities of the people. Makes Maine look like it has hot houses!

 

[jadefirefly]

Jade, that one is pretty good. Also in Arizona ~ in the Northeast Valley. An Italian/Mexican Restaurant. Yes, with authentic Mexican food and real Chicago style pizza. LMFAO.

*blink*
*blink*

I seem to have missed that one...

And Xelebes, how can you have Mexican food without beans?! Spice, okay, sure, I'm not big on spicy foods... but no BEANS?!

 

[leeroy jenkins]

Not sure if its an only but it would be pretty close.

Only in California would they have a police division of Cameros to catch trucks that do not usually go over 80MPH.

 

[rozezwild]

Only in Michigan do you have to go down the highway and do a U-Turn and come back up the Highway to make a left hand turn

AKA: the Michigan Uie

 

[leeroy jenkins]

Only in Michigan do you have to go down the highway and do a U-Turn and come back up the Highway to make a left hand turn

AKA: the Michigan Uie

That sounds alot like Jersey make a right turn to turn left thought.

 

[Kind der Nacht]

Only in Michigan do you have to go down the highway and do a U-Turn and come back up the Highway to make a left hand turn

AKA: the Michigan Uie

We have that here there is even U-turn lanes in some places.

 

[rozezwild]

That sounds alot like Jersey make a right turn to turn left thought.

Thats Michigan --turn right go down do a Uie and turn right again to make a freaking left or heaven forbid going straight -- you still have to do the Uie shit

 

[rozezwild]

We have that here there is even U-turn lanes in some places.

Oh hell and here i thought that it was just MIchigan

 

[leeroy jenkins]

Oh hell and here i thought that it was just MIchigan

Not a big fan of Michigan only in Michigan at least for east of Mississippi do are cars allow to drive 15 mph faster then the semi trucks. Once a truck driver always a truck driver.

 

[jadefirefly]

Only in Arizona can we go 140 days without (measurable) rain, and nobody really thinks there's anything odd about it.

In fact, once we broke the record at... what, 110 days?... they even stopped talking about it on the news, save to remind us with every weathercast that we're not getting any rain.

Feckin' unnatural state...

 

[graceanne]

In arizona it is illegal to have two dildo's in one house . . . Ok, how many of you are law breakers?!?

 

[leeroy jenkins]

Only in Arizona can we go 140 days without (measurable) rain, and nobody really thinks there's anything odd about it.

In fact, once we broke the record at... what, 110 days?... they even stopped talking about it on the news, save to remind us with every weathercast that we're not getting any rain.

Feckin' unnatural state...

LOL, hot hot weather aside what makes Arizona so bad Jade?? I am not talking Phoenix because I have much dislike of large cities.

Only in Arizona can you see where The Thing, not sure what is it but its here.

 

[jadefirefly]

It's hot, it's dusty, it's brown (I grew up in new england), it's dry. "It's a dry heat", they say -- well, it's that dry heat that makes a breeze feel like you just opened an oven door when it's 100 or 110 degrees outside.

I'm sick of living in an area where the populace is consistently stupid enough to allow unattended children around open pools, and then act surprised and declare "but I only left her for a few seconds" when the kid drowns.

I'm sick of living in an area where there are 5 churches every square mile, and you're treated like you've got the plague if anyone finds out you don't attend one of them.

I don't like stucco, I don't like desert plants or landscape, and overall, I personally find the southwest a rather unattractive place. I don't feel comfortable living here.

Betcha wish you hadn't asked!

 

[graceanne]

It's hot, it's dusty, it's brown (I grew up in new england), it's dry. "It's a dry heat", they say -- well, it's that dry heat that makes a breeze feel like you just opened an oven door when it's 100 or 110 degrees outside.

I'm sick of living in an area where the populace is consistently stupid enough to allow unattended children around open pools, and then act surprised and declare "but I only left her for a few seconds" when the kid drowns.

I'm sick of living in an area where there are 5 churches every square mile, and you're treated like you've got the plague if anyone finds out you don't attend one of them.

I don't like stucco, I don't like desert plants or landscape, and overall, I personally find the southwest a rather unattractive place. I don't feel comfortable living here.

Betcha wish you hadn't asked!

I could not live in Arizona. I'd dry up and blow away.

 

[jadefirefly]

You would not -believe- how much water you have to drink just to get by, here. It's incredible.

On the sole plus side, being forced to drink that much water -does- help me lose some weight during the summers.

 

[leeroy jenkins]

I could not live in Arizona. I'd dry up and blow away.

I have been in Oregon and besides never stoping at the Falls, you know which ones I am talking about, or making a Pit stop in The Dallas, it vera nice. Favorite rest area in the whole US I hade seen is on I 5 in Oregon.

Only in Oregon is there an unoffical third lane on the mountains for big trucks.

Jade these are all correct, but in the dry heat all you need is a swamp cooler not the super expensive air conditioning of most of the eastern half of the US.

Stupid people are everywhere, but maybe the influx of illegal aliens has made Arizona dumber then some other parts of the country??

You need to associate with different people the the ones your are. I Ohio where I have spent untold years, many with the attitude you have for Arizona. The have sign like here but there they also have the area churches welcoming you into town. The small town my adopted mom lives in there much be like 10 churches and this town only has may be 30 thousand or less people. Main street in her town has 4 light so I think we get off ok here.

I grant you that nice trees and landscape are nice but if you hate the dersert region of Arizona so much just move up north a bit to the mountain region or go further still to the plateau region. Having seen so much of the country its hard for me to say that any one area is so much better then anothe because its all different, but I will say that it was sorta a hope that if I was of course still driving, that I might have a place on the west side of Flagstaff. You get the nicer green scenery and snow, plus it would have been a snap to see my mom and stepdad as he lives in the valley. There are worse places to be like Nebraska, a land so flat that makes traveling thur it horrid, that and its over 400 miles east to west.

 

[jadefirefly]

Been tryin' to get out.

I had a way out, but it decided this morning it didn't want to talk to me anymore.

It's not been a good day.

 

[leeroy jenkins]

Been tryin' to get out.

I had a way out, but it decided this morning it didn't want to talk to me anymore.

It's not been a good day.

I have a feeling there is alot subtext missing there, but I am sorry that today has been nasty for you. I know the feeling of living in a place you hate with all your guts all to well so I hope you can find another way to leave this area, but my next question is where would you go to back to New England? Not sure where you are on your schooling but if your not done yet will you be able to transfer?

 

[Xelebes]

Only in Michigan do you have to go down the highway and do a U-Turn and come back up the Highway to make a left hand turn

AKA: the Michigan Uie

Yeah, apparently those are called clovers if I recall correctly.

 

[jadefirefly]

Transfers aren't likely, not for some time. I dropped out of college when I shoulda been going, so the return is going slowly.

I was planning to go to MD. Now I'm planning, I guess, on staying in AZ, unless something totally unexpected and very much hoped for happens.

Sorry so short-worded today. When typing takes an effort and you have to work up the 'care' just to hit the reply button, it's a sign it's almost bed time.

My world might have come screeching to a halt, but the rest of it is still moving and I have work early in the morning.

 

[Xelebes]

There are worse places to be like Nebraska, a land so flat that makes traveling thur it horrid, that and its over 400 miles east to west.

And to think Canadians have got it worse - we have Saskatchewan.