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  • You think you’ll only need a sweater in June.
  • You think walking uphill for several blocks is an adventure.
  • You congest foot traffic at Pier 39 to take a picture.
  • When riding the Powel/Hyde Street Cable Car, one hand is holding on for dear life while the other is holding a camcorder.
  • You drive across the Golden Gate Bridge and turn right around.
  • The “Bush Man” scares the crap out of you.
  • You walk around Union Square with a map.
  • You find the derelicts on MUNI charming.
  • You stop and gawk at “The Silver Guys.”
  • You can’t tune out a loud homeless person.
  • You wonder why the hillside houses “don’t fall into each other.”
  • You hope to experience an earthquake just to see what they feel like.
  • You wonder where all those pink shopping bags came from.
  • You’re willing to pay $4 to ride the cable car to Fisherman’s Wharf; $2 from the California StreetLine and another $2 to transfer onto the Powell Street Line. (If you want to get to the Wharf any native knows you can just take the F Line from Market & California – DUH!)
  • When you ask for directions, you can’t understand why someone would look at you with such disdain.
  • You don’t see Willie Brown as a money hungry freak.
  • You have no idea what a Street Sheet is.
  • You think the knickknacks from Chinatown will last for awhile.