You know you live in rural Pennsylvania when...

[SpinneZiege]

My mom sent this forward to me today. Enjoy!

You know you’re from Pennsylvania when:

1. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.

2. "Vacation" means going to Erie for the weekend.

3. You measure distance in hours.

4. You know several people who have hit deer more  than once.

5. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.

6. You use a down comforter in the summer.

7. Your grandparents drive at 65 mph through 13  feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.

8. You see people wearing hunting clothes at social events.

9. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.

10. You think of the major food groups as deer meat, fish, and berries.

11. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use them.

12. There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at the Sheetz store at any given time.

13. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

14. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.

15. You think sexy lingerie is tube socks and flannel pajamas.

16. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, construction

17. It takes you 3 hours to go to the store for one item even when you're in  a rush because you have to stop and talk  to  everyone in town.

[Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor]

You know you live in Rural Tennessee when–SpinneZiege’s Mom’s life sounds like a cosmopolite’s dizzying social whirl.

[Medea_s_Child]

Do want to know what’s scary? All but three of those also apply to metropolitan Michigan. (And #12 is only eliminated until you replace the store name with Meijers.)

[MysterEcks]

2. “Vacation” means going to Erie for the weekend.

Man, you city people are just something else. Around here it means going to Altoonafor the weekend.

7. Your grandparents drive at 65 mph through 13 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.

Thirteen feet? Come on–we ain’t in Canada.

8. You see people wearing hunting clothes at social events.

What the hell’s wrong with that?

Medea’s Child said:

(And #12 is only eliminated until you replace the store name with Meijers.)

Sheetz is a convenience store–more like Quality Dairy.

[Guinastasia]

Don’t forget-
Plenty of Arn while watchin’ dem Stillers!

Yinz goin’ dahntahn?

[SpinneZiege]

I said rural, Guin. No Piksbugaria!

[rayniday]

don’t forget…

18.)You get to see those Amish buggie signs. (Gosh, I love those, but watch out for them road apples!!!)
19.)“Keilbasa” (sp?) or “Perogies” are a typical part of your diet

[Tranquilis]

Contributed by a State College friend…

20. The only traffic you’ve seen all day were three buggies on their way to church, and you’re concerned you may have too many neighbors.

21. The main local crops are rocks and road-kill.

[Goose]

*Originally posted by Medea’s Child *
**Do want to know what’s scary? All but three of those also apply to metropolitan Michigan. (And #12 is only eliminated until you replace the store name with Meijers.) **

I was thinking the exact same thing.

[SpinneZiege]

State Slogan: Road work ahead
State joke: Men at Work

[Persephone]

Oh yeah, most of those are Michigan too.

5. You often switch from “heat” to “A/C” in the same day.

I’ve been doing this nearly every day for the last two weeks. Typical Michigan spring. The only thing that’s missing is snow. But hell, it’s only late May. I expect the snow to start flying any minute now.

[Medea_s_Child]

Hear hear!

Yesterday my mom made James and I put the cover on the pool. This morning she took it off so the kids could swim. Tonight its going to get cold and rainy. Again.

As to road work, my friends call the appearance of the orange barrels the “Michigan State Seasonal Beautification Project”

[MsRobyn]

… you’re posting charges and notice that you’re entering exactly 4 surnames into the computer (and one of them is Gingrich)…

Robin

[eLunatic]

I have to agree that most of these could fit Michigan also. If only you had mentioned something about Euchre…

[WIGGUM]

You city folks crack me up. Erie and Altoona? How about Breezewood, the beautiful “Town of Motels” and maybe a trip down the road to “Old Bedford Village” for a weekend get away.

22. Sunday isn’t the Sabbath, it’s Race Day.

23. You get the First Day of Buck and Doe Season off from work. No questions asked.

24. Friday nights entertainment: Cruising the block in your Trans Am.

25. You have entered the Radio Wasteland where you get three radio stations. Two are country, and the other one is too.

26. There are sporting goods stores on every street corner, and a taxidermist on every other.

[Lady_Magdelane]

I love it!
I’m from Altoona, PA and I’m moving to Kalamazoo, Michigan on the 6th.
All of those apply from my life in PA to what little I have observed in MI.
S’pose I’ll feel right at home. Minus the hilly/mountainish landscape, of course.

I guess some things never change, eh?

[uberDave]

20. The day before Ash Wednesday someone at the office brings in fastnaugts and turkey molasses.

21. Scrapple.

22. Most roads are known for the two towns that they connect. “Yeah, I live on the Topton-Hereford road.” “My mother lives on the Longswamp-Alburtis road.”

23. The local amish are in the paper again for taking the orange triangles off their buggies. Those rebels.

[Inky_1]

(24) You have “DIESEL CHEESE GIFTS” painted on any part of your property.

(25) You don’t even flinch when Gramma starts shooting squirrels from the kitchen window with her .22.

(26) Your Gramma has a .22.

(27) Ten pounds of homemade venison sausage is a perfectly acceptable wedding present.

(28) Before bed “Tick Check”.