Are y'all from Missourah?

For all of you who can relate to living in Missouri.

  • Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.
  • There are 5,000 types of snakes, and 4,998 live in Missouri.
  • There are 10,000 kinds of spiders. All 10,000 live in Missouri, plus a couple no one's seen before.
  • Unknown critters love to dig holes under tomato plants.
  • Raccoons will test your crop of melons and let you know when they are ripe.
  • If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.
  • A tractor is NOT an all-terrain vehicle. They do get stuck.
  • Onced and Twiced are words.
  • It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy.
  • People actually eat and grow okra.
  • "Fixinto" is one word.
  • There ain't no such thing as "lunch". There's only dinner and then there's supper.
  • Sweet tea is appropriate for all meals... and you start drinking it when you're 2.
  • Backwards and forwards means I know everything about you.
  • "Jeet?" is actually a phrase meaning "Did you eat?"
  • You don't have to wear a watch because it doesn't matter when time it is. You work until you are done or it's too dark to see.

  You know you're from Missouri if:

  • You measure distance in minutes.
  • You've had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
  • You know what a mule is.
  • You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it, no matter what time of the year.
  • You us "fix" as a verb. Example: I'm fixin' to go to the store.
  • All the festivals across the state are named after fruit, vegetable, grain, insect, or animal
  • You install security lights on your house and garage... and leave both unlocked.
  • You carry jumper cables in your car... for your OWN car.
  • You know what "cow tipping" is.
  • You only own four spices: salt, pepper, BBQ, and Ketchup.
  • The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require six pages for local gossip and sports.
  • You think the first day of deer season and the first day of trout fishing is a national holiday.
  • You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit "a little warm".
  • You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas.
  • You know whether another Missourian is from east, west or middle Missouri as soon as they open their mouth, or by the BBQ they eat.
  • Going to Wal-Mart is a favorite past time known as "goin Wal-Martin" or off to "Wally World".
  • You describe the first cool snap (Below 70 degrees) as good pinto-bean weather.
  • Fried catfish is the other white meat.

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