"you May Be Country If"

[PAPPY]

You and your friends had trucks, Red-Man wallets and shotguns.

Your mama has to holler out the kitchen window to "Take them nasty boots off!"

Your weekends consist of horse sales, tractor pulls, rodeo, then church.

[norris]

* You could tell there was a Popping John Deere coming down the road 1/2 mi. away.
* Had to park the H-Farmall (with the tricycle front end) on a hill to start it next time.
*When we'd go to Church in the summer time, we had those pasteboard fans w/the little wooden handle, and the religous scenes on the front.
* I remember the Doctor coming to the house, and give everyone in the family a physical exam.
* Would catch grass hoppers, and through them in the chicken pen, and watch the chickens chase them until one would catch it, and have a nice snack.
*Had an old wringer type washing machine in the back yard next to the water hydrant, and clothes line.
* Always had coal oil lamps, because out where we lived the elect. would go off alot. We also poured coal oil on a cut from rusty barbed wire to stop infection.

[PAPPY]

You didn't KNOW you were POOR until the Government Told you!

A Pulliam's BBQ or Hot Dog was a REAL TREAT.

You knew the difference between a WHIPPIN and a WHOPPIN !

When you went to bed, you turned off the light by pulling a string whose one end was attached to the bed post and the other end to a small chain on the light bulb.

[ButchB]

Sounds like there are a LOT of country folks on this forum,huh?

[PAPPY]

FISHING was a major activity of any time you may have had off.

Your calculator was an adding machine.

Your Grandma and Grandpa had a picture in their room, and everyone swore up and down that the eyes would follow you wherever you went in that room.

You know what it means when you hear someone say "It is so hot you must have cooked it with split wood."

[trundlebug]

Ya might be country if ya go for a walk and everyone that drives by asks if you would like a ride.

[PAPPY]

As a GIRL, all the kids you played with were BOYS.

When you had rotten tomato fights, whoever was dirtiest and smelled worse WON !

For breakfast your grandpa gave you some candy for school.

You and your brother put frogs in you Sister's bedroom.

You know what it feels like to get up out of bed in the dark and step on one of your sister's jack rocks, and you can remember what your Pappy said when he stepped on one !

[trundlebug]

You have ever been noodlin. You have been bitten by a catfish. You had to go outside to fetch dinner. You have thrown unopened beer cans into a bon fire

[PAPPY]

OR GOMMIN'

[PAPPY]

If you still live on a dirt road.

When you went to bed at dark, Grandmaw said you went to bed with the chickens.

Your cousin rode a whizzer motor bike to school.

Your uncle made five gallons of home brew in your Grandmaw's sauerkraut crock.

Grandpaw and Grandmaw had a spring house.

Your dad dug fresh horseradish and ground it up in the sausage grinder and mixed it with vinegar to eat with a fresh pot of pinto beans and yeast bread.