You know you're from Missouri if.....

Here's a little poking fun at my state......I've added my own comments in parenthesis.....



1. You've never met any celebrities.
2. Everyone you know has been on a "Float Trip" (speaking of, I really wanna go on one...any takers?)
3. "Vacation" means driving to Silver Dollar City, Worlds of Fun or SixFlags. (ugh, how many fine family vacations consisted of this one????)
4. You've seen all the biggest bands ten years AFTER they were popular. (HA! Remember Foreigner at the VP Fair????)
5. You measure distance in minutes rather than miles. For example,"Well, Webb City 's only 20 minutes away." (totally guilty of this one....for instance, I live about 30 minutes from work...)
6. Down south to you means Arkansas .
7. The phrase "I'm going to the Lake this weekend" only means one thing.
8. You know several people who have hit a deer. (everyone in my family but me....knock on wood!)
9. You think Missouri is spelled with an "ah" at the end. (NOOOOO! I HATE it when people pronounce it that way!)
10. Your school classes were canceled because of cold. (true)
11. You know what "Party Cove" is. (totally)
12. Your school classes were canceled because of heat. (again, true)
13. You instinctively ask someone you've just met, "What High School did you go to?" (isn't this more of a St. Louis thing?)
14. You've had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
15. You think ethanol makes your truck "run a lot better."
16. You know what's knee-high by the Fourth of July.
17. You see people wear bib overalls at funerals. (I have actually witnessed this, unfortunately.....)
18. You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it, no matter what time of day.
19. You know in your heart that Mizzou can beat Nebraska in football.
20. You end your sentences with an unnecessary preposition.Example: "Where's my coat at?" (I am soooooo guilty of this one....)
21. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit,vegetable,or grain.
22. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
23. You think of the major four food groups as beef, pork, beer, and Jell-O salad with marshmallows.
24. You carry jumper cables in your car and know that everyone else should. (you mean people don't???)
25. You went to skating parties as a kid.
26. You only own three spices: salt, pepper, and ketchup.
27. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit. (I HATED that as a kid!)
28. You think sexy lingerie is tube socks and a flannel nightie.
29. The local paper covers national and international headlines on one page, but requires six pages for sports. (OMG, so true!)
30. You think I-44 is spelled and pronounced "farty-far." ( south St. Louis only)
31. You'll pay for your kids to go to college unless they want to go to KU. (can I get an "amen"?)
32. You think that "deer season" is a National Holiday. (school was cancelled for the first day!)
33. You know that Concordia is halfway between Kansas City andColumbia , and Columbia is halfway between St. Louis and KansasCity,and the Warrenton Outlet Mall is halfway between Columbia and St.Louis. (don't forget about the McStop in Kingdom City)
34. You can't think of anything better than sitting on the porch in the middle of the summer during a thunderstorm.
35. You know which leaves make good toilet paper.
36. You've said, "it's not the heat, it's the humidity." (Umm...I think I actually said that today...)
37. You know all four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, Still Summer and Football.
38. You know if another Missourian is from the Bootheel, Ozarks,Eastern, Middle or Western Missouri soon as they open their mouth. (SO true!)
39. You know that Harry S Truman, Walt Disney and Mark Twain are all from Missouri .
40. You failed World Geography in school because you thought Cuba ,Versailles , California , Nevada , Houston , Cabool , Louisiana ,Springfield , and Mexico were cities in Missouri . (And they are! And I know someone from every one of those towns!)
41. You think a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor. (HA, this is SOOOO my home town...)
42. You know what "HOME OF THE THROWED ROLL" means. (Lamberts!)