Growing Up in Rural Wisconsin 2-17-2010
gengberg February 17th, 2010
If You Grew Up In Rural Wisconsin :
* 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 or Farm and Fleet
* 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, if not several, in your class who had to help
milk cows in the morning. And/or smelled like it..
* You have driven your car on the lake.
* You can make sense of ‘upnort’ and ‘baatree’.
* 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 double as a meat processing
plant.
* You think that the start of deer season is a national holiday.
* You actually understand these jokes and will forward them to all your
Wisconsin friends!!!!!
