OT: Aint this the truth !!!
I am born & raised in SW Minn on a small dirt/dairy farm. (Born in Marshall, went to school in Minneota)
My sis lives in Ghent, sent this:
YOU GREW UP IN RURAL Minnesota IF:
> You know how to polka, but never tried it sober....
> You know what knee-high by the Fourth of July means.
> You know it is traditional for the bride and groom to go bar hopping between the reception and wedding dance.
> You know the difference between 'Green' and 'Red' farm machinery, and would fight with your friends on the playground over which was better!
> You buy Christmas presents at Fleet Farm.
> You spent more on beer & liquor than you did on food at your wedding.
> You hear someone use the word 'oof-dah' and you don't break into uncontrollable laughter.
> You or someone you know was a 'Dairy Princess' at the county fair.
> You know that 'combine' is a noun.
> You let your older siblings talk you into putting your tongue on a steel post in the middle of winter.
> You think Lutheran and Catholic are THE major religions.
> You know that 'creek' rhymes with 'pick'.
> Football schedules, hunting season and harvest are all taken into consideration before wedding dates are set.
> A Friday night date is getting a six-pack and taking your girlfriend shining for deer.
> Saturday you go to your local bowling alley.
> There was at least one kid in your class who had to help milk cows in the morning... phew!
> You have driven your car on the lake.
> You can make sense of 'upnort' and 'batree'.
> Every wedding dance you have ever been to has the hokey pokey and the chicken dance.
> Your definition of a small town is one that only has one bar.
> The local gas station sells live bait.
> At least twice a year some part of your home doubles as a meat processing plant.
> You think that the start of deer season is a national holiday.
