You know you live in New Mexico when....
  You can correctly pronounce Tesuque, Cerrillos, and
Pojoaque.
  You expect to pay more if your house is made of mud.
  You can order your Big Mac with green chile.
  You are still using the paper license tag that came
with your car five years ago.
  Your Christmas decorations include "a yard of sand
and 200 paper bags".
  Most restaurants you go to begin with "El" or "Los".
  You price shop for tortillas .
  You have an extra freezer just for green Chile.
  You think a red light is merely a suggestion.
  You believe that using a turn signal is a sign of
weakness.
  You think six tons of crushed rock makes a beautiful
front lawn.
  You know they don't skate at the Ice House and the
Newsstand doesn't sell newspapers.
  There is a piece of a UFO displayed in your home.
  You just got your fifth DWI and got elected to the
state legislature in the same week.
  Your swamp cooler got knocked off your roof by a
dust devil.
  You have been on TV more than three times telling
about your alien abduction.
  You think Las Vegas is a town in the northeastern
part of the state.
  You iron your jeans to "dress up".
  Your other vehicle is also a pick-up truck.
  Two of your cousins are in Santa Fe, one in the
legislature the other in the state pen.
  You know the punch line to at least one Espanola
joke.
  You have driven to an Indian Casino at 3 am because
you were hungry.
  You think the Lobos fight song is "Louie, Louie".
  You know whether you want "red or green."
  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.
  You know you will run into at least 3 cousins and/or
a dozen friends whenever you shop at Walmart.

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