YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM SOUTH DAKOTA (ORIGINALLY) IF:
1. The first, and perhaps only celebrity you've ever met is Captain 11.
2. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting on I-90 for the "follow
me" car to come back during road construction.
3. "Vacation" means stopping off at Wall Drug for Friday night dinner and
a drive through the Badlands early Saturday morning, with the rest of the
weekend driving through the Black Hills before heading home for Sunday
night chores.
4. You've seen all the biggest bands ten years after they were popular.
5. You measure distance in minutes and hours.
6. You know several people who have walked to school uphill in knee-deep
snow in a blizzard....and they weren't lying.
7. Your school classes were canceled because of cold. And cold means 20
below zero.
8. Your school classes were canceled because of heat.
9. People ride the schoo l bus for an hour each way.
10. You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
11. Everyone's parents knew everyone else's parents and grandparents.
12. You know what's 'knee-high' by the Fourth of July.
13. Stores don't have bags; they have sacks. It's not soda, it's pop.
14. You know not only 'what' but 'where' Sturgis is. And, your first big
trip in life was to see Mt. Rushmore and visit the Flintstone's Bedrock City
in Custer.
15. You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in
it no matter what time of the year.
16. "You betcha," and "You guys." Need we say more.
17. All the festivals across the state and a major attraction are named
after a vegetable, grain or animal. i.e. Corn Palace.
18. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both
unlocked.
19. You think of the major four food groups as beef, pork, Beer, and red
Jell-o with marshmallows (and maybe those little fruit pieces).
20. Everyone carries jumper cables in their car.
21. You know what "cow tipping" and "snipe hunting" are.
22. You only own 3 spices: salt, pepper, and ketchup.
23. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
24. Driving is better in winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
25. You think everyone from out of state has an accent.
26. A big shopping trip is going to Sioux Falls - Great Plains Mall.
Minneapolis, if you are really living.
27. The local paper covers national and international headlines on one
page, but requires 6 pages for area sports. You know who won the
State "A" basketball championships for years back - girls and boys.
28. You consider deer season and pheasant season national holidays.
29. You know which leaves make good toilet paper while camping and
hunting.
30. You know all 4 seasons: Almost winter, winter, Hotter than Hell, and
winter again.
31. There is a McDonald's in every town with a population of 1,000 or
more. Over 1,000, there is a McDonald's on each end of town.
32. Eight-foot tall snow piles divide the lane down the middle of Main
Street from November through March.
33. Pop is a Coke and soda involves ice cream and root beer.
34. You plug your car in at night, but it's not to charge the batteries.
35. You could always count on the local truck stop or The Happy Chef for
the best breakfast in town.
36. Aside from pheasants, mosquitos are the state bird.
37. You actually GET these jokes and forward them to all your friends from
South Dakota and to a few friends who APPRECIATE SOUTH DAKOTANS!
"Sometimes, business decisions must be based not on economics,
but on what is right." ~ Ivan Howes
