You know you're in Perth when....

[Lou8670]

So for a bit if fun and with spring here and summer just round the corner!

 

You know you're in Perth when:

 

1.The best parking space is determined by shade instead of distance.

 

2. Hot water comes out of both taps.

 

3. You learn that a seat belt buckle makes a pretty good branding iron.

 

4. The temperature drops below 35c and you feel a little chilly.

 

5. You discover that in February it only takes two fingers to steer your car.

 

6. You discover that you can get sunburnt through your car window.

 

7. You develop a fear of metal car door handles.

 

8. You break a sweat the instant you step outside at 7:30am.

 

9. Your biggest bicycle wreck fear is, "What if I get knocked out and end up lying on the pavement and cook to death?"

 

10. You realise that asphalt has a liquid state.

 

11. Farmers are feeding their chickens crushed ice to prevent them from laying hard-boiled eggs.

 

12. The cows are giving evaporated milk.

 

13. The trees are whistling for the dogs.

 

14. While walking back barefoot to your car from the beach, you do a tightrope Act on the white lines in the carpark.

 

15. You catch a cold from having the aircon full blast while you sleepduring the night.

 

16. You pray that your train will have air-conditioning, and if it doesn't, waiting an extra 15 minutes for one is worth it!

 

So what makes Perth different for you?!?

Edited October 18, 2014 by Lou8670

[annjean]

Putting the washing on the line and within half hour are bringing it in again dry.

[Lou8670]

Putting the washing on the line and within half hour are bringing it in again dry.

 

The washing or cardboard? hehe

[ROB T]

When you let somebody out of a junction and some impatient b####rd sounds their horn from behind.....

[Plimthing]

You talk to a local and they keep saying 'ay' and 'but' for no apparent reason.

 

women have more tattoos than men.

 

your grass is praying for rain.

 

from November you forget what clouds are.

 

finally realizing warm real ale doesn't cool you down at all.

 

30 years of drinking bitter and you turn into a lager drinking softy!

 

there is probably more but the' miserable police ' might get excited.

[odies]

When you let somebody out of a junction and some impatient b####rd sounds their horn from behind.....

someone just let me out of our shop car park, then the fool behind overtook him , nearly wasn't here to tell the tale, idiot

[beandownunder]

when you put faces to Perth pommers :-)

loving it here xxxx

[nikkiwd]

-you get folk wandering through the shopping centre with no shoes on and on occasion no top either (men the majority of the time )

[rpakey]

How about this one: you leave a room, with the door closed for days, unable to enter, because you spotted a huntsman in the corner! (they WILL kill you of course! I swear the ones I encounter actually 'jump' AT you)

[JenPen]

Great thread!!!

[7cdb]

You talk to a local and they keep saying 'ay' and 'but' for no apparent reason.

 

women have more tattoos than men.

 

your grass is praying for rain.

 

from November you forget what clouds are.

 

finally realizing warm real ale doesn't cool you down at all.

 

30 years of drinking bitter and you turn into a lager drinking softy!

 

there is probably more but the' miserable police ' might get excited.

 

 

 

Arrgh bless

[FOL]

So for a bit if fun and with spring here and summer just round the corner!

 

You know you're in Perth when:

 

1.The best parking space is determined by shade instead of distance.

 

2. Hot water comes out of both taps.

 

3. You learn that a seat belt buckle makes a pretty good branding iron.

 

4. The temperature drops below 35c and you feel a little chilly.

 

5. You discover that in February it only takes two fingers to steer your car.

 

6. You discover that you can get sunburnt through your car window.

 

7. You develop a fear of metal car door handles.

 

8. You break a sweat the instant you step outside at 7:30am.

 

9. Your biggest bicycle wreck fear is, "What if I get knocked out and end up lying on the pavement and cook to death?"

 

10. You realise that asphalt has a liquid state.

 

11. Farmers are feeding their chickens crushed ice to prevent them from laying hard-boiled eggs.

 

12. The cows are giving evaporated milk.

 

13. The trees are whistling for the dogs.

 

14. While walking back barefoot to your car from the beach, you do a tightrope Act on the white lines in the carpark.

 

15. You catch a cold from having the aircon full blast while you sleepduring the night.

 

16. You pray that your train will have air-conditioning, and if it doesn't, waiting an extra 15 minutes for one is worth it!

 

So what makes Perth different for you?!?

 

love it mate, every single one of them :-)

[Nikkis2000]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/simoncrerar/problems-all-australians-know?s=mobile#3z2js8j

 

Particularly like the shrunken Thong!

 

Oh and....

 

Leaving your airconditioned car/office/house and getting that "walking off the plane feeling" as you walk out of the door into a wall of heat!

Edited October 20, 2014 by Nikkis2000

[cocolevi]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/simoncrerar/problems-all-australians-know?s=mobile#3z2js8j

 

Particularly like the shrunken Thong!

 

Oh and....

 

Leaving your airconditioned car/office/house and getting that "walking off the plane feeling" as you walk out of the door into a wall of heat!

 

Ouch the couple in the lift

[SJT]

After a swimming lesson the kids just jump in the car in their wet swim suits, because by the time you get home they are dry and there is none of that stress in the changing rooms trying to put on dry clothes on wet skin. I have to say that when I was doing outdoor water aerobics at Bold Park, that is what I use to do as well, I cannot get away with that now I belong to a proper gym, but I use to love the guilty feeling of driving in just a swim suit, because I would never in a million years have done that back in the UK.

[Guest Guest6235]

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Edited December 28, 2015 by Guest6235

[ali]

People shopping in their PJ's

 

Replying "Good" when anyone asks how you are

 

Calling sweets 'lollies' and Crisps "chips"

 

Having a Dooner Day

 

Belting out Advance Australia Fair when you're at home and you're watching sport on tele

 

Dawn Service on Anzac Day

 

Knowing that the Perth haters don't really know what they're missing

[Lou8670]

Getting woken up by the pool pump and retic coming on

[fifi69]

The birds...the bloody birds ...

 

those shrieks are enough to drive anyone mental...

 

then the swooping:shocked:

 

anything else is no prob, love the bare feet, the mullet, nova fm on the drive home (love that they get way with that)

 

leave the Aussies alone, learn to live with their crap driving. Don't pay for expensive Coles and Woolies shopping, get to your local markets, spudshed etc.

 

please please don't turn Perth into the UK, I know some things send you demented, but I love how un PC Perth is, we don't need or want anything.

 

I vote to keep Perth laidback, and telling it is how it is

[FrankieB]

When you are driving along the freeway and aggressive drivers almost take you out because they can't wait for you to overtake them before they have to get passed the car in front of them, or they drive so far up your rear end you brace yourself waiting for the shunt.

 

You walk through any park and hear parents swearing as if it is normal language.

 

The majority of dog walkers have no consideration for other people/animals.

 

Perth isn't laid back it is full of aggressive and arrogant people (in my experience obviously).

 

However, the beaches and parks are nice before I get laid into by the people yet to make the move. Also on the positive side, you know you are in Perth when you are actually glad to see some rain after months without, and glad to be able to get out of the house without worrying about getting caught in a torrential downpour after a long winter full of them.

[portlaunay]

YKYIPW....

 

despite living in a city which consistently hits the top ten places in the world to live, you still find an endless queue of whinging poms who'll find reason to complain about anything.

 

you begin to appreciate the sound of a V8 and, similarly, the roar of a hog making your ears bleed as it thunders away from the lights.

 

you begin to regret planting four capsicum plants because the fruit is so plentiful you can't possibly use that much of it.

 

air travel seems as commonplace as a taxi ride.

 

your tie rack is relegated to a box in the garage somewhere along with that fabulous tweed suit.

 

the last thing you do before you get into bed at night is brush the sand from the soles of your feet.

 

the only time the soles of your feet are not covered in sand is when you're in bed.

 

you go to a concert to see someone you don't even like just because someone you've heard of is actually playing a gig here.

 

you regret going to a concert to see someone you don't even like because the grungy little venue just up the road has more talent in a thirty minute open mike set than three hours of faultlessly choreographed wriggling and near perfectly synchronised miming.

 

a twenty minute drive to get anywhere is fifteen minutes too long.

[annjean]

I love what you wrote portlaunay so true.

[elfie]

When you get called dallllllllor dolllllll arghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

 

the mullet becomes more acceptable to the eye

 

Xmas day usually tops 35 deg + and you really dont want to be eating a full turkey dinner with all the trimmings but rather have a salad sitting on the beach

 

yes sitting on the beach Xmas day with a santa hat on is the big one for us

[verystormy]

When you are going for a run and nearly step on a snake! (I didn't even see if, but luckily my wife did and I ended up in a sort of mad dance as it went between my legs)

[elfie]

When you are going for a run and nearly step on a snake! (I didn't even see if, but luckily my wife did and I ended up in a sort of mad dance as it went between my legs)

 

totally off subject hows your little dog stormy?