Bay Area, II: listing

You know you're back when...? Or maybe you know you're in CA when...?

1. One person takes up the entirely space of a table seating for four.
2. You can't spell American style anymore, and you realize this is a problem.
3. The person at the table next to you keeps his dog on his lap and feeds it bites of pita & hummus.
4. The person at the table next to you is eating pita and hummus.
5. Bikes. Expensive bikes. Everywhere. And their riders are not riding them out of the necessity to get from one place to another.
6. You keep unconsciously gripping your seat because everyone insists on driving on the 'wrong' side of the road.
7. It takes you five minutes to find the word gas even as petrol trips lightly off your tongue.
8. Mi-ssion-'ry. Te-rrit-'ry. (Let's call the whole thing off...)