1. You can correctly pronounce words like Tesuque, Cerrillos, Acoma, Buena, Ocotillo, and Pojoaque, and Isleta (and you actually know what or where they are!).
2. You have been told by at least one out-of-state vendor that they are going to charge you extra for international shipping.
3. You expect to pay more if your house is made of Adobe.
4. You can order your Big Mac with green chile.
5. You buy salsa by the half-gallon.
6. Dunno where #6 went?
7. Your Christmas decorations include "red Chiles, a half-ton of sand and 200 paper bags."
8. Most restaurants you go to begin with "El" or "Los."
10. You price shop for tortillas.
11. You have an extra freezer just for green Chile.
12. You consider Billy the Kid a state hero.
13. You think six tons of crushed rock makes a beautiful front lawn.
14. You ran for state legislature just so you could speed legally.
15. You pass on the right because that is the fast-lane.
16. You think Sonic is "America's Favorite Drive-in."
17. Your swamp cooler got knocked off your roof by a Dust Devil.
18. You have been or know someone who has been abducted by aliens.
19. You can actually hear the Taos hum.
20. All your out-of-state friends and relatives ask if they can drink the water when they come to visit.
21. When someone says "Las Vegas" you think of a small New Mexico town in the northeastern part of the state.
22. You iron your jeans to "dress up."
23. You don't see anything wrong with drive-up window liquor sales.
24. Your other vehicle is also a pick-up truck.
25. Two of your cousins are in Santa Fe, one in the legislature, the other in the state penitentiary.
26. You know what it means when a waitress asks you whether you want "red or green."
27. You're relieved when the pavement ends because the dirt road has fewer potholes.
28. You see nothing odd when, in the conversations of the people in line around you at the grocery store, every other word of each sentence alternates between Spanish and English.
29. You've seen the bat flight at Carlsbad Caverns and have a t-shirt that says "Bats need friends, too!"
30. You know you are special because you're from the Land of
Enchantment!
