During my recent trip to San Antonio, I found myself in a small shop (gourmet dog cookies, if you must know) across from a Starbucks. I told the proprietor that I was visiting from Seattle, and she immediately said, "Yes, the home of Starbucks!"
Indeed.
It made me realize that I'm really, really from Seattle, because:
I've had coffee at Starbucks original store - before they took over the world even.
I regularly shopped at Costco's flagship store until they built another closer to my home.
Yes, of course, I worked at Microsoft, before they took over the world too. (1983-2001, employee count ~360 to over 54,000).
My dad consulted for Boeing on a regular basis and his equipment was used when building the 747 in its early years.
I know that UPS started in Seattle.
And I know how to pronounce both "Puyallup" and "Sequim".
There's a bunch of local trivia too, but those would interest only those that live here. I may have one specific one in the coming days ... a test, of sorts, for the locals.
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