Steve Flattem
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- May 27, 2003
- Messages
- 191
- Reaction score
- 0
-if you have ever refused to buy something because it's 'too spendy'
-if your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March
-if someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there
-if your town has an equal number of bars and churches
-if you considerit a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by
-if your idea of a traffic jam is 10 cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway
-if you're proud that your state makes the national news 96 nights each year because International Falls is the coldest spot in the nation
-if to you 'down south' means Iowa
-if you install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked
-if you may not have actually eaten it, but you have heard of, or smelled, lutefisk
-if you have either a pet or a child named 'Kirby'
-if you had a lengthy telephone conversatin with somone who dialed the wrong number
-if you think that ketchup is a little too spicy
-if every time you see moonlight on a lake, you think of a dancing bear, and you sing gently, 'from the land of sky blue waters...'
-if you measure distance in hours
-if you have used the 'heat' and a/c' on the same day
-if you can drive 65 mph through two feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching
-if you see people wearing hunting clothes at social events
-if you think the major food groups include fish, venison and beer
-if you carry jumper cables in your car and your wife or girlfriend knows how to use them
-if there are seven unattended cars running in the parking lot at Mills Fleet Farm at any given time
-if you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit
-if driving in the winter is better because the potholes are filled with snow
-if you identify the four seasons as almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction
-if your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new machine shed
-if you go out to a fish fry every Friday
-if you haven't missed the Minnesota State Fair since you were three and it's permanently on your 'must attend' calendar.
-if your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March
-if someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work there
-if your town has an equal number of bars and churches
-if you considerit a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by
-if your idea of a traffic jam is 10 cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway
-if you're proud that your state makes the national news 96 nights each year because International Falls is the coldest spot in the nation
-if to you 'down south' means Iowa
-if you install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked
-if you may not have actually eaten it, but you have heard of, or smelled, lutefisk
-if you have either a pet or a child named 'Kirby'
-if you had a lengthy telephone conversatin with somone who dialed the wrong number
-if you think that ketchup is a little too spicy
-if every time you see moonlight on a lake, you think of a dancing bear, and you sing gently, 'from the land of sky blue waters...'
-if you measure distance in hours
-if you have used the 'heat' and a/c' on the same day
-if you can drive 65 mph through two feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching
-if you see people wearing hunting clothes at social events
-if you think the major food groups include fish, venison and beer
-if you carry jumper cables in your car and your wife or girlfriend knows how to use them
-if there are seven unattended cars running in the parking lot at Mills Fleet Farm at any given time
-if you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit
-if driving in the winter is better because the potholes are filled with snow
-if you identify the four seasons as almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction
-if your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new machine shed
-if you go out to a fish fry every Friday
-if you haven't missed the Minnesota State Fair since you were three and it's permanently on your 'must attend' calendar.
