You Know . . . When

So you know you are living in a desert when:

Everyone's favorite season is winter.  We do conversation test with students and one question we ask is what their favorite season is.  So of all the students I've asked almost without fail the favorite season is winter.  Having experienced the heat of only the end of summer I have some idea why winter is favored.  

You can now distinguish and appreciate at least five shades of brown.

You've forgotten how to use a clothes dryer.  Who needs one when the air around is about as efficient a dryer.

Road trips go much faster.  It seems I can drink gallons and not need a "potty break".

More homes have water coolers than water heaters.

Weathermen can't begin a sentence without saying, "Mostly sunny".

Clarification

To clarify on the last comment on my soccer post.  The Blue Knights would have easily taken the group I was playing with.  Some questions had arose from this so just wanted to clarify.  Don't want to be thought of as downing my team.

Soccer

This weekend I played soccer with some guys here in Jordan.  A coworker of mine plays each Friday and so I and some others from work joined him and some of his friends.  Unfortunately grass is a scarce commodity in Jordan and so our field was a basketball court with rock piles for goals.

Myself and some other Americans were wondering if we were about to be demolished as we drove out to play.  But as it turned out although many here have a passion for soccer it does not necessarily equate to having talent at soccer.  It was about the mix you'd expect anywhere.  A few guys really good, a few really bad, rest somewhere in between.  For those of you familiar with the Blue Knights, well we would have taken them easily.