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Mon 23 Feb, 2015 05:52 pm
Every single one of these rings absolutely true..
Forget Rednecks .... 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.
If Vacation means going anywhere south of New York City for the weekend, you live in New England . If you measure distance in hours, you live in New England . If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you live in New England .
If you have switched from 'heat' to 'A/C' in the same day and back again, you live in New England . If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in New England . If you install security lights on your house and garage but leave both unlocked, you live in New England.
If you carry jumpers in your car and your wife knows how to use them, you live in New England . If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit, you live in New England .
If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph you're going 80 and everybody is passing you, you live in New England . If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow, you live in New England .
If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction, you live in New England . If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you live in New England . If you find 10 degrees 'a little chilly', you live in New England .
If there's a Dunkin Donuts on every corner, you live in New England . If you think everyone else has a funny accent, you live in New England .
If you actually understand these jokes, and forward them to all your New England friends, you live or have lived in New England.
Hmm. I must not live in New England.
@Lustig Andrei,
Half of those apply in old England, too.
I totally misunderstood the jumpers thing for a while. Jumpers over here are sweaters over there. We have jump leads.
@Lordyaswas,
The jumpers threw me as well. Ours are the same as yours.
But we have jumper leads.
I just realised what a funny word jumper is.
@cherrie,
Sounds a bit nicer than sweater though.
Reminds me of a boss I used to work for.
@Lordyaswas,
Which reminds you of the boss - jumper or sweater?
Either one doesn't sound too good.
@Lordyaswas,
I recall the year I got a sweater for my birthday. Would've preferred a moaner or even a screamer but a sweater is better than a jumper.
@cherrie,
Our offices were on the ground floor, so a jumper wouldn't have come to much harm. Maybe squashed a few daffodils...
No, defintely a sweater.
You know how to cross country ski, and you like it.
If you went to Montreal for your buddy's bachelor party . . .
@George,
If you know someone named Sully (male or female) or you are Sully, you live in New England.
@jespah,
If you're Sully's friend O'B . . .
If someone says "Spring" and the first word you think of is "mud" . . .
If you've ever had a Gansett . . .
. . . and opened it with a church key . . .
If you want a soda but ask for a tonic...you're form Greater Boston.
If you want jimmies on your ice cream . . .
@jespah,
jespah wrote:
If you know someone named Sully (male or female) or you are Sully, you live in New England.
heh. Where I live that would be if you know someone named Chuy (male only).
Pronounced like chewie, but with one syllable.
@Lustig Andrei,
Lustig Andrei wrote:
If you want a soda but ask for a tonic...you're form Greater Boston.
Tonic and soda are the same thing over there?
I'm obviously missing a nuance.
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