1. Tell them you bought shoes specifically to compliment the PDX airport carpet.
2. Tell them their homegrown kombucha recipe beats anything you could get at Whole Foods.
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3. Compliment them on their wide beer-vocabulary, forged in the nation’s microbrew capital.
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4. Meet their kilted, darth-vader-helmet-wearing flaming-bag-pipe-playing unicycle jaunt with applause. They’re “keeping it weird,” after all.
5. Tell them how impressed you are that they maintain a 9-to-5 AND an exotic backyard garden with several chickens.
6. Tell them how much you admire their commitment to their four-legged-friends and quirky-pet-culture.
7. Tell them you’d rather drink a “large Stumptown Hair Bender” than a “Venti Americano-Doubleshot” any day.
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