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Thursday, April 06, 2006
Thursday Thirteen
- You are really adept at steering the car around cow pies.
- You get a flat tire a mile from home. It takes you 45 minutes to change it, and in that amount of time not a single car goes by. However, you see some neighbors out on their horses and they volunteer to stop off at your house as they ride by and let your family know where you are.
- Your husband asks where something is outdoors and you tell him, "last I saw it it was by the transmissions."
- Directions to your house include the phrase, "after the fifth cattleguard, the road turns to dirt, and you keep going for two miles until..."
- You stop and look and go when it's clear no matter what color the traffic light is.
- Ordering a pizza seems like a really exotic thing to do.
- You go to the lumberyard and buy concrete for a project you're doing with your dad. Later in the day your dad goes to the lumberyard to buy concrete and the guy behind the counter tells him he doesn't need to buy any because you already did.
- You can tell which way the wind is blowing by how the cows are standing in the field.
- The sight of a really well-built fence brings a lump to your throat.
- You're not afraid of bears, bulls, or one-lane dirt roads with a cliff on one side and a bank on the other. However, being in a part of town with bars on the windows gives you a panic attack.
- The "letters to the editor" page is full of diatribes when a restaurant with a drive-thru is built in town.
- Nobody has ever heard of your local grocery chain.
- Google Maps has no idea how to find your house.
Comments
LOL, so true, if not a wee bit exaggerated ;) You have made me home sick though.
Posted by: jenn at April 6, 2006 10:47 AM
Actually, except for the panic attack (I just get scared), every single thing on this list is either true of me now, or was while I was growing up, or happened to me at some point in my life. Even (embarrassed) the traffic light thing. That was back when I had first learned to drive.
Posted by: Rachel at April 6, 2006 12:24 PM
Oh, and (ducks head) I actually am a little afraid of bulls.
Posted by: Rachel at April 6, 2006 12:27 PM
These are great. I have to say that ordering pizza was a great adventure for us growing up in the 'burbs, too. That's mostly because my parents were either too broke or too cheap (or maybe both?) to do so. I am also no fan of bars on windows. That said, guess what area of town I work in? Yep. One day my coworker came in and said there were 4 "bums" (now THERE'S a word I never heard in Kalifornia) outside going through our dumpster. Fun.
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at April 6, 2006 12:42 PM
#6. When were on our trip. the boys and I were ordering a pizza and they delivered. It was WAY fun. YOu call, they come! WITH PIZZA!! It was wonderful!!
Posted by: debi at April 6, 2006 02:55 PM
But it isn't true that NOBODY has heard of my grocery chain...I mean you may not have a Vons or whatever there but everyone's probably at least heard of one. ;)
Posted by: jenn at April 6, 2006 04:41 PM
That was a funny thirteen. I loved the concrete story!! I also do TT...I'll link you. :)
Posted by: Addie at April 6, 2006 10:27 PM
I'll add one: Even AOL dial up is long distance. (my parents)
;-)
Posted by: Ellen at April 7, 2006 08:10 AM
When in the States--with my parents--in "po-dunk," Texas----pizza guys will meet us 1/2 way to deliver.
They meet us at the gas station "in town"---which is still a good 15-20 minute drive for us--ONE way!!!
Posted by: amanda at April 8, 2006 09:11 AM
