You Know You Live in Washington When:

1. The traffic report regularly states that the beltway is backed up to the Mormon Temple.
2. When you tell your friend you want to go with her to the mall and ask for directions, she guides you downtown near the capital building instead of to the stores.
3. You get a random paycheck from the United States Senate and it takes you awhile to figure out what you did to earn it.
4. If it snows a few inches the entire town closes down and you can find diplomats sledding with their children in your backyard. Sometimes you can join them too.
5. There are actually more acronyms than can be found at BYU.
6. You can trick-or-treat in many countries just by walking down certain streets. (Embassy Row).
7. Some of what you call work, others would be doing for sightseeing. Yet others would call another some of it sheer boredom and drudgery.
8. Ward cultural events activities include historic sights that most people only read about. i.e. Mount Vernon, Ford's Theater, Shenandoah, etc.
9. You eat lunch with at least one new person a week in entirely different locations.
9.5 You don't have any change for the toll road so your commute time gets doubled because you get lost in the back roads. Then again, a 6 mile stretch can take twenty minutes to traverse sometimes depending on the road.
10. You get to be amongst amazingly bright and talented individuals who make life interesting and thought provoking.