All the great stuff you love about AZ

• You notice your car overheating before you drive it.
• You no longer associate bridges or rivers with water.
• You can hear the weather forecast of 115 degrees without flinching.
• You can be in the snow, then drive for an hour...and it will be over 100 degrees.
• You discover that in July it only takes two fingers to drive your car, because your steering wheel is so hot.
• The best parking is determined by shade, not distance.
• Hot water comes from the cold water tap than the hot one.
• It's noon in July, kids are on summer vacation and yet all the streets are totally empty of both cars and people.
• You actually burn your hand opening the car door.
• Sunscreen is sold year round and kept right at the checkout counter.
• You put on fresh sunscreen just to go check the mail box.
• You can fry an egg on the hood of a car in the morning.
• You know hot air balloons can't rise because the air temperature is hotter than the air inside the balloon.
• You see two trees fighting over a dog.
• You see more irrigation water on the street than there is in the Salt River.
• You hear people say "but it's a dry heat!"
• All of your out-of-state friends start to visit after October but clear out come the end of April.
• You think someone driving wearing oven mitts is clever.
• Most of the restaurants in town have the first name "El" or "Los."
• You think 60 tons of crushed red rock makes a beautiful yard.
• Your house is made of stucco and has a red clay tile roof.
• Vehicles with open windows have the right-of-way in the summer.
• Most homes have more firearms than people.
• Kids ask, "What's a mosquito?"
• People who have black cars or black upholstery in their car are automatically assumed to be from out of-state or nuts.
• You know better than to get into a car with leather seats if you're wearing shorts.
• You can finish a Big Gulp in 10 minutes and go back for seconds.
• You take rain dances seriously.
• When a rainy day puts you in a good mood.
• When you drive two miles around a parking lot looking for a shady place - even in the dead of winter.
• You feed your chickens ice cubes to keep them from laying hard-boiled eggs.
• When you have to look up "mass transit" in the dictionary.
• The temperature drops below 95, you feel a bit chilly.
• You can attend any function wearing shorts and a tank top.
• You realize that asphalt has a liquid state.
• You realize that snowbirds aren't really birds at all, but just really bad out of state drivers that you learn to hate.
• There are only two temperatures, hot and hotter
• Even thinking about not having air conditioning makes you sweat.
• You travel out of state and any sort of humidity nearly kills you.