you know you're from boise when...

(found this online. posting this mainly for my sisters but maybe the rest of you'll get a taste of my hometown. some of this i totally don't get 'cause it's more recent then when i lived there. i left the kinda fucked up things in there so you get an idea of boise mentality)

• you change from your heater to the AC in your car on the same day!
• Everyone's dad either works for HP, Micron, or owns a construction company and the one who owns the construction company is the richest one of them all.
• You can spot a Centennial girl by how big her "Utah Poof" is.
• You know what the "Utah Poof" is.
• You know what real emo kids look like, and know that they all hang out at the Venue.
• You know a family that has more than 8 kids and don't think it's unusual.
• You've played fugitive downtown. (never heard of it but it sounds fun)
• You can drive past a multimillion dollar mansion in Eagle, then see a trailer and an old farm house right next to it.
• You know someone who camped outside the Krispy Kreme when it opened.
• You see a 2C driver and steer clear.
• You can spot someone from the North End in a second by their apparent lack of bathing, shaving, and Birkenstocks.
• You think the Boise Weekly is ultra liberal.
• You know who the "Boys of Boise" are and that they congregate outside The Flying M.
• You have called a van a "Mormon Assault Vehicle."
• You went to the Old Boise Penitentiary for a field trip in elementary school. totally did this
• You participated in the 4th Grade Rendezvous and still think it's great.
• You were devastated or deeply excited when the River Festival was shut down.
• As a member of BARF you helped get the River Festival shut down.
• You still get excited when you see the hot air balloons early in the morning. one of my favorite things about going home
• You are terrified to drive through Nampa/Caldwell because you are scared you are going to be shot…even though it's safer than other cities suburbs. ugh, no...i was born in nampa
• You were pissed when they banned alcohol on the Boise River, so you hid it in Gatorade bottles.
• You know someone who says they made it back from Bogus (the ski resort) in 12 minutes at night when it was snowing.
• You go to Oregon to buy good fireworks.
• You know what "The Inversion" is.
• You get pissed off when people drive badly in the rain even though everyone does it.
• You meet someone from U of I and automatically assume they are a drunk.
• You have been to the Hookah bar and had someone accuse you of smoking weed because of it.
• You have seen "the blue field" a million times and probably played Optimist football on it and you don't understand people in other states fascination with it.
• You get totally annoyed when people call it BOIZE instead of Boise.
• You actually look forward to Boise doing fireworks in the park and you fight for a prime spot near the Julia Davis band stand.
• You have driven the downtown cruise and realized how lame it was but did it anyway.