Coincidentally, a friend emailed this to me this morning:
Forget Rednecks…here is what Jeff Foxworthy has to say about New
Englanders:
If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 36
inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping it will swim by, you
might live in New England.
If you’re proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each
year because Mt. Washington is the coldest spot in the nation, and
Boston gets more snow than any other majority in the US, you live in New
England.
If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you
live in New England.
If you instinctively walk like a penguin for six months out of the
year, you live in New England.
If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance, and they don’t
work there, you live in New England.
If you’ve worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you live in New
England.
If you’ve had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed
a wrong number, you live in New England.
YOU KNOW YOU ARE A NEW ENGLANDER WHEN:
"Vacation" means going anywhere south of New York City for the weekend.
You measure distance in hours.
You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.
You have switched from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day, and back again.
You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard
without flinching.
You install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both
unlocked.
You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend/wife knows how
to use them.
You design your kid’s Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with
snow.
You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road
construction.
Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your
blue spruce.
"Down South" to you means Philadelphia.
Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new shed.
Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
You find 10 degrees "a little chilly."
You actually understand these jokes, and forward them to all your New
England friends.
how very apropos
ps. thanks for your good wishes… the freezers seem to have survived!! (frozen, that is)
Comments
9 responses to “New Englanders”
yup, though our local DQ always opens on Groundhogs Day and has specials on blizzards whenever there is one.
(and we like to through “mud” into the list of seasons)
I’m glad to read that your freezers survived – good luck with the clean-up.
I think some of those would fit for Wisconsinites, too. ; ) The best to you in getting things back to “normal.”
Yup. I don’t currently live in New England, but I’m from Massachusetts — and that’s all so true!!
Ain’t these the truth!
Those are eerily true. Born and raised….
I’m reading that list and saying, “And his point IS?????” Hee. Yeah. The lawyer for my deposition today was from NYC. He flew in today and had no idea. He still had no idea once he arrived at our office, because in Burlington there is NO SNOW. Then the deponent arrived from Warren. Need I say more????? The deponent and I looked pretty bedraggled, that’s for sure.
All true with one exception – the seasons are actually five in number. Summer. Fall. Winter. MUD. Spring. LOL
Good luck with the recovery, and glad to hear all that work didn’t unfreeze itself…
I love this list. I’m with Norma…”so, what’s your point? isn’t everyone like this?” 😉 But I was born in Rhode Island and raised in New Hampshire, so I’m a little biased, I guess…
Ayuh.
Oh, my Judy! I leave you alone for a few days and this is what happens? Good luck with the all the hard work nestled in your freezers. Knit something warm!
Ann