You Know You Live in LA...

You know you live in LA when:

• You've seen a limo make an illegal left hand turn. 
• (In my case, the sign that was telling it not to turn was a glowing crossed out red arrow)

• Picking apples means perusing the Apple Farm Gift Shop
• Snow Line Orchards anyone?

• You were excited about sleeping on a 'real mattress'. 
• (I slept on an airbed three years, it was on the top bunk of a child sized bunk bed)

• You can't remember the last time you had your own bathroom. 
• (There is a faint memory of this from when I lived in VA)

• You have not gone out some night, because you weren't sure if there was parking or it was raining. 
• The rule of thumb is that there never is parking (even if there is a lot),
•  But the key comes whether you know where the secret, non towing spots are.

• You have had an argument with someone over the movie Drive, the word Awesome, or whether Darren Aronofsky is a genius or a weirdo. 
• I've heard many of these arguments, and I admit I participated in one or two

Found in a local LA bookstore...

• You see fewer movies than you used to because of the price difference. 
• I saw dozens more movies in Eugene

• You know of several people who have done a cleanse. 
• At least five, and I've been a part of many conversations based around cleanses

• You have done a cleanse. 
• Okay, so I haven't done it...yet.

• You know what a colonoscopy is. 
• I know about it in great detail from real people it's also mentioned in the movie L.A. Story 

• You have driven in your car to ride the subway, and after the subway still had to walk several blocks. 
• Hollywood Bowl anyone?

• The movies Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, America's Sweetheart, and BowFinger seem three times as funny as they did.

• You used to call what you did that one time "being an extra", now you call it "background." 
• I worked background forever and loved it, and it only took a week for me to forget the rest of the world knows it as being an extra

• Your foot, arm, elbow, or edge of your hair is in a movie.
•  Movie wise...my hair is in the second Chipmunk movie

• You've been flirted with by a good looking member of the opposite sex, only to wonder if they just wanted a bigger tip. 
• (all the time)

• When you hear someone's an actor you assume they haven't made it yet. 
• I assume they will make it eventually

• You and mostly everyone you know is a writer of some sort. 
• (True, even actors write out here) 

• You have dreamt of the day when you could afford to eat the full meal deal at a fast food place. 
• (Yes, it finally came, it took  four and a half years)

• Signs everywhere tell you that the building you are entering and the thing you are thinking of buying could cause cancer.

• Also signs tell you not to shoplift at every store. Some are more specific than others...