A Chuckle at My South Dakota Heritage

Greetings,

A former student sent me this chuckle via e-mail...Jeff Foxworthy on South Dakota.

1. If "vacation" to you means going shopping for the weekend in Rapid City, Sioux Falls , Spearfish or Sturgis (while the kids swim at the Comfort Inn). - You might live in South Dakota.
I remember taking these very same vacations as a kid and now my sisters take similar vacations with their own! If you got to go to the Comfort Inn in the winter time, your vacation was even cooler!
2. If parking your car for the night involves an extension cord. - You might live in South Dakota.
I thought everyone had a heavy duty cord to 'plug-in' at night.
3. If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 8 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by. - You might live in South Dakota.
Um...Too chilly of a sport for me : )
4. If you're proud that your state makes the national news primarily because it houses the coldest spot in the nation. - You might live in South Dakota.
We've been colder than Alaska several times!
5. If you have ever refused to buy something because it's "too spendy". - You might live in South Dakota.
My mother, my aunts, my sisters, my religious sisters, and I have all used those exact words!
6. If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March. - You might live in South Dakota.
7. If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there. - You might live in South Dakota.
I've offered assistance to others in a store, haven't you?
8. If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead. - You might live in South Dakota.
My Dad's suntan has a curve not only on the forehead, but also where his short shirt-sleeves and neck line end.
9. If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time. - You might live in South Dakota.
I've worn shorts and parka, and during college--sandals whenever the snow was swept off the sidewalks.
10. If your town has an equal number of bars and churches. - You might live in South Dakota.
11. If you know how to correctly pronounce Pierre , Huron, Ipswich and Pukwana. - You might live in South Dakota.
I think they should add Belle Fourche to the list!
12. If you measure distance in hours. - You might live in South Dakota.
I grew up measuring distance in minutes and hours! We were two hours from 'everywhere' which included Sioux Falls, Aberdeen, and Yankton.
13. If your family vehicle is a crew cab pickup. - You might live in South Dakota.
14. If you know several people who have hit deer more than once. - You might live in South Dakota.
I have hit more than one deer in my own life : )
15. If you often switch from "heat" to "A/C"in the same day and back again. - You might live in South Dakota.
Oh yeah!
16. If you can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching. - You might live in South Dakota.
I've done it in college, but now that I'm a grown up I wouldn't do it again.
17. If you see people wearing hunting clothes at social events. - You might live in South Dakota.
18. If you've installed security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked. - You might live in South Dakota.
He, He, He, He...I know folks who've done this!
19. If the largest traffic jam in your town centers around a high school basketball game. - You might live in South Dakota.
Actually, our town traffic jams tended to be around football games, it was a much more popular sport.
20. If you carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use them. - You might live in South Dakota.
I was offened by this sexist remark. The women in South Dakota have their own jumper cables, we don't need to use someone else's...and yes, most of us know how to use them.
21. If your town's Christmas lights parade is actually called the 'Christmas Lights Parade' rather than the 'Holiday Lights Parade', and everyone in the parade actually greets you with 'Merry Christmas!'- You might live in South Dakota.
This is one of the things I love best about home. We might be a growing multicultural group in South Dakota, but we still share our faith and beliefs.
22. If there are 7 empty unlocked cars running in the parking lot at Wal-Mart at any given time. - You might live in South Dakota.
23. If there are more people at work on Christmas Eve Day than on Opening of Deer Season. - You might live in South Dakota.
The school my Dad works in takes off the opening day of pheastant and deer season...
24. If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit. - You might live in South Dakota.
My sister Joy regularly sets up Halloween costumes to be over warm clothes or to be warm themselves...Lisa is a bit luckier since her town is still warmer at Halloween time.
25. If driving is better in the winter be cause the potholes are filled with snow,- You might live in South Dakota.
26. If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction. - You might live in South Dakota.
27. If you can identify a southern or eastern accent. - You might live in South Dakota.
And those other areas think we have accents! Okay, a bit...we do have heavy consonants and a strong "O".
28. If you consider Murdo exotic. - You might live in South Dakota.
29. If your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your cottonwood,- You might live in South Dakota.
30. If the sunbelt to you means Mitchell. - You might live in South Dakota.
31. If you know where the 'banana belt' is. - You might be from South Dakota.
For those not from South Dakota, Yankton is the 'bannana belt'.
32. If a brat is something you eat. - You might live in South Dakota.
33. If finding your misplaced car keys involves looking in the ignition. - You might live in South Dakota.
This doesn't happen as often, but I've still done it in the past.
34. If you go out to a fish fry every Friday. - You might live in South Dakota.
This is more a Wisconsin thing! South Dakota folk do fish fry's during Lent for the most part.
35. If you find 0 degrees "a little chilly." - You might live in South Dakota.
36. If you actually understand these observations, and you forward them to all your South Dakota friends. - You must be from South Dakota.