You Know You're in Eugene When

So this is a re-take on something my friends did from San Jose, so I decided to make one for Eugene because it's fun and SO TRUE, please add more in comment form if you can think of anymore:

• when it snows and Half of Eugene has snowmen on their porches


• when 7 foot tall snow bongs are erected on a snowy day


• when you walk downtown and get asked if you want mushrooms


• when you're on your way to the club and 100 bicyclists nearly run you over with their clown suits and techno music blazing


• when you're in downtown and you're asked to smoke pot


• when all the hippies come out of the closet for the Eugene Celebration and for the Country Fair


• when strolling through town on Saturday and you find the Market


• when you see the Eugene Weekly people delivering papers on bike thingy's


• when it's the middle of winter and a freak sunny day comes along and half the city is walking around town


• when you order pizza downtown and the homeless/punk kids ask you for a slice


• when you hear people refer to the city as the "Euge"


• when you use the 5 or so taller buildings in downtown as a reference point


• when you go to the local coffee shops at 9pm and their packed with locals


• when you're stuck in traffic on West 11th going to and from West Eugene and downtown


• when kids from the west side don't know their way around downtown


• when you can spot someone is out of place because they're from Springfield


• when you can spot someone is out of place because they're from Junction City


• when someone is an outsider because of the way they pronounce "Willamette"


• when you can spot a driver from California and you get all pissed about it


• when you see that everyone and their mom has piercings or tattoos of some sort


• when you see a million tattoo and piercing shops


• when you read the paper and they're still arguing about what to do over the pits downtown


• when you notice that there are very few corporations downtown, they are mostly in West Eugene


• when you go for a stroll in the park and see a bunch of people playing their bongo drums


• when you go to 5th street market and a really cool local band is playing


• when there's a DUCK game because every car and person in town is decked out in DUCK in gear


• when you read that Phil Knight from Nike has donated yet a few more Million Dollars to U of O


• when you go to a local health food store you get asked to sign a petition


• when election time comes around and you are harassed everywhere you go to make sure you are a registered voter


• when you are a republican and the extremist liberals find out about it


• when spring break comes around and every frat house on campus has blazing parties going on


• when you go to the club and girls with hairy arm pits are a normal thing


• when you encounter multiple people with really bad B.O., but nobody seems to care


• when you refer to Springfield, a local Eugenian will quiver


• when you hear people argue about which Springfield belongs to in the Simpsons


• when you see piles of trash/junk in front of peoples homes with "Free" signs in front of it


• when you almost get into a car accident from the 1 foot piles of leaves everywhere in the fall


• when you go to Alton Baker Park and you see people smoking out and chilling by the river


• when you decide to explore the river in Springfield and you accidentally find a nudist colony


• when you're talking about "the mall", it's referring to Valley River Center


• when you know what VRC and DAC stand for


• when you know that Thursday and Saturday nights are the best nights to go out


• when you goto to 80's night and see that it has been taken over by the gays and lesbians


• when you are in downtown because the ambulance and fire truck sirens are always going off


• when many locals you meet are vegan or vegetarian and frown down upon the meat eaters


• when you shop at the Kiva, Sundance, or Capella's and you're given a 5 cent credit for using re-usable bags


• when you eat at Cafe Yumm!

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can you think of anymore....please add to the list by commenting on this blog