COUNTRY RULES

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COUNTRY RULES
In an effort to help outsiders understand the rules of the Country mind, the following list will be handed to each person as they enter a Country area..  (These actually should be the rules in all states.)
1.        That farm boy you see at the gas station did more work before
breakfast than you do all week at the gym.
2.       It's called a gravel road. No matter how slow you
drive, you're going to get dust on your Lincoln Navigator. Drive it or get it out of
the way!
3.       The red dirt -- it's called clay. Red clay. If you like the
color,don't wash your car for a couple weeks -- it'll be permanent.
4.       We all started hunting and fishing when we were seven years
old. Yeah, we saw that Bambi movie, too. We got over it.
5.       Go ahead and bring your $600 Orvis fly rod. Don't cry to us if
a flathead breaks it off at the handle. We have a name for those little 13-inch trout you fish for.....bait.
6.       Pull your pants up! You look like an idiot!!!
7.       If that cell phone rings while a bunch of mallards are making
their final approach, we will shoot it. You might want to ensure it's not up to your ear at the time.
8.       No, there's no Vegetarian Special on the menu.
Order steak. Order it rare. Or, you can order the Chef's Salad and pick off the two pounds of ham and turkey.
9.       Tea -- yeah, we have tea. It comes in a glass over ice and it's
sweet. You want it hot? Set it in the sun. You want it unsweetened?  Add a lot of water.
10.    You bring Coke into my house, it better be brown, wet, and served over ice!
11.     You have a sixty-thousand-dollar car. We're real impressed. We
have a quarter of a million-dollar combine that we only use two weeks a year.
12.    Let's get this straight. We have one stoplight in town. We stop
when it's red. We may even stop when it's yellow.
13.    We eat dinner together with our families. We pray before we
eat--yeah, even breakfast. We go to church on Wednesdays and Sundays, and we go to high school football games on Friday nights. We still address our seniors with yes, sir and yes, ma'am, and we sometimes still take Sunday drives around town to see friends and neighbors.
14.    We don't do hurry up well.
15.    Greens -- yeah, we have greens, but you don't putt on them. You boil them with salty fatback, bacon or a smoked hog jowl.
16.    Yeah, we eat catfish, bass, bream, and carp. You really want sushi and caviar? It's available down at the bait shop.
17.    They are pigs. That's what they smell like. Get over it. Don't like
it? Interstate 75 goes two ways. Interstate 40 goes the other two. Pick one.
18.    Grits are corn. You put butter, salt, and maybe even some pepper on them. If you want to put milk and sugar on them, then you want cream of wheat -- go to Kansas. That would be I-40 West.
19.    The Opener refers to the first day of deer season or dove season.Both are holidays. You can get pancakes, cane syrup, and sausage before daylight at the church on either day.
20.   So every person in every pickup truck waves? Yeah, it's called
being friendly. Understand the concept?
21.    Yeah, we have golf courses. Don't hit in the water hazards. It spooks the fish and bothers the gators --and, if you hit it in the rough, we have these things called diamondbacks, and they're not baseball players.
22.   That Highway Patrol Officer that just pulled you over for driving like an idiot --his name is Sir, no matter how young he is.
23.   We have lots of pine trees. They have sap. It drips from them.You park your Navigator under them, and they'll leave a souvenir on your hood.
24.   You burn an American flag in our state, you get beat up. No questions.The liberal contingent of our state legislature -- all four of them enacted a measure to stop this. There is now a $2.50 fine for beating up the flag burner.
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i fully intend on printing this our and nailing copies to the "city limit" signs of our town of 700 as a friendly "reminder" to all the summer residents and tourists who visit our "quaint, little village", decide to move here and then wanna turn it into exactly what they left!! ichhhh!! a group of locals put out a pamphlet which you can find in any of the local gas stations, eateries, etc....it warns them of true country living...the smell of cattle and pigs ("get used to it!!"), the dust, the snow and the fact that the county snowplows will NOT come plow your private drive (that is why so many folks have plows on the front of their own rigs or 4-wheelers in the winter time) and the fact that our local ambulance crew is VOLUNTEER and may take some time getting to your place and NO...we do not have surgeons or heart specialists available 24 hours a day at our small, rural, 9 bed hospital!! amazing how many "city folk" come here and then leave when they realize that we are not gonna "adjust" just for them!! :D ;-)
 
I agree 100%. Let me find someone burning a flag from the greatest country in the world, and I would gladly pay my fine and the fine for anyone else who agrees with me. But, what is the fine for shooting some spineless punk that burns the American flag?
 
Spineless punks caught burning a flag are immeadiately drafted into the Army and sent to a 52 week boot camp. What do you think about that? Might straighten them up a little....
 
I went through Army boot camp, and 13 weeks of basic and A.I.T. was no picnic. So I'm sure 52 weeks would teach them a thing or two about what this country means to a country boy.
 
ranchwife":2g74qsws said:
amazing how many "city folk" come here and then leave when they realize that we are not gonna "adjust" just for them!! :D ;-)

At least they leave. Here they just kept coming until they were the majority and changed them to the way they were where they left.

Chris
 
Some of them leave here too. Get tired of hearing how they did it "wherever". Then they label us as "Clanish" and either pack up and leave of become social unadapted hermits. Others are just as good as gold.
 
Wish they'd keep the city the city, and the country the country. Urban sprawl is going to consume us if we're not careful. Where are we going to get our food from? Some of our best farmland has a Super Wal Mart, or houses so close you could smell what the neighbors are having for supper.
 
Crowderfarms":1g8n2vkv said:
Urban sprawl is going to consume us if we're not careful. Where are we going to get our food from? Some of our best farmland has a Super Wal Mart,

I reckon some of the city slickers think all we gotta do is go to the Super Wal Mart to get our food. They don't realize that food has to be frown on farms.
I had a city cousin about 45 yrs ago that came over for a week during the summer. He wouldn't drink the milk out of the pitcher in the ice box, because he didn't want milk that came from a cow, so my mother went to town and bought some in a carton from the little grocery store. Their intelligence is not improving either.
 

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