Hopelessly stuck between Indiana and Iowa

[subllibrm]

I live in Michigan. We refer to Indiana as that flat spot between here and Kentucky.  8)

True of northern and central Indiana, however southern Indiana loses its wrinkle-free guarantee and becomes Kentucky-like in its rolling hills and hollars.  We refer to Illinois as "communist controlled America", Kentucky as "little sister south" and Michigan as "an arctic mission field". 

Course I am a life long Hoosier, therefore a bit bias....

We had a pastor from Louisville. In talking to his wife (also from Kentucky) I said something to the effect that she grew up on the right side of the river. She answered "there ain't but one side to that river". Still makes me laugh.

BTW we have a lot of relocated Hoosiers here in West Michigan.

 

[Frag]

I live in Michigan. We refer to Indiana as that flat spot between here and Kentucky.  8)

True of northern and central Indiana, however southern Indiana loses its wrinkle-free guarantee and becomes Kentucky-like in its rolling hills and hollars.  We refer to Illinois as "communist controlled America", Kentucky as "little sister south" and Michigan as "an arctic mission field". 

Course I am a life long Hoosier, therefore a bit bias....

We had a pastor from Louisville. In talking to his wife (also from Kentucky) I said something to the effect that she grew up on the right side of the river. She answered "there ain't but one side to that river". Still makes me laugh.

BTW we have a lot of relocated Hoosiers here in West Michigan.

About once a year we have a group of Kentuckians decide to attack Indiana.  They toss sticks of dynamite across the river at us.

Doesn't bother us.  We just pick them up, light the fuses, and throw them back.....

 

[T-Bone]

I live in Michigan. We refer to Indiana as that flat spot between here and Kentucky.  8)

True of northern and central Indiana, however southern Indiana loses its wrinkle-free guarantee and becomes Kentucky-like in its rolling hills and hollars.  We refer to Illinois as "communist controlled America", Kentucky as "little sister south" and Michigan as "an arctic mission field". 

Course I am a life long Hoosier, therefore a bit bias....

We had a pastor from Louisville. In talking to his wife (also from Kentucky) I said something to the effect that she grew up on the right side of the river. She answered "there ain't but one side to that river". Still makes me laugh.

BTW we have a lot of relocated Hoosiers here in West Michigan.

About once a year we have a group of Kentuckians decide to attack Indiana.  They toss sticks of dynamite across the river at us.

Doesn't bother us.  We just pick them up, light the fuses, and throw them back.....

Sounds like a bunch of Californians! ;D

 

[myeyesareopen]

I wish we could succeed from Chicago.

Is it your belief you would succeed were you to secede? 

 

[pastorryanhayden]

I wish we could succeed from Chicago.

Is it your belief you would succeed were you to secede? 

Were you an editor in Manhattan?

 

[Castor Muscular]

I lived in North Carolina (Asheville) less than a year.  I made several friends there. 

I've lived in San Antonio for 8 years.  I don't know anyone here.  Even at work, people stop by to chat at everyone's cube in my section but mine.  I've tried starting conversations dozens of times.  They just look at me with a blank stare until I go away.  I "know" a few people from church, but they have no interest outside of chatting for a minute at church.  Texas may be one of the best places to live right now due to the economy, but I hate it.

my dad would totally agree with you..... his family has history in texas that goes back for centuries to the time it was owned by spain ..... with an ancestor that fought at san jacinto .. on the texas side....  and another ancestor that fought at adobe walls.... on the comanche side...... yet he says that to this day his fondest memory of texas was seeing it disappear in the rear view mirror when he left for the last time........

even my brother who went back there when his mother was dying... and ended up staying and is raising a family there, doesn;t like it......  he wants to bring his family back to hawaii........ he says texas has changed to the point of being unrecognizable from what he remembers when he was a child there before they came here.....

The people at work are the worst, and that's not counting the hypomanic programmer who bursts out in ear-splitting laughter every time he says anything -- and I mean ANYTHING.  Nothing he says is funny, nor is it meant to be funny.  He just laughs uncontrollably at everything he says.  Most of the ones in my section grew up together, along with the boss.  They chat all day about the good old times.  Or whatever.  I've tried asking them about their lives, or chatting about the raccoon in my attic, or telling jokes.  No reaction.  I sit in my cube all day as if I'm the only one who exists. 

About 6 years ago we moved to a smaller town near San Antonio.  I figured smaller town friendlier people.  Wow.  Was I wrong.  Our neighbors never welcomed us.  I tried to make friends with an older couple to our left, and they were friendly at first.  But then they found out I was a laid off single dad (I got laid off the week I moved in).  Never heard from them again.  One day, my kids walked down to the corner store, which was a little dump owned by the lady who lived across the street from us.  My kids came up 2 cents short of what they wanted to buy.  The lady refused to sell it to them.  So they put the candy back and walked home. 

We moved back into town 4 years ago.  At least we're closer to the big grocery stores and Chinese groceries now. 

I hate Texas.  I hate it with a passion.  The weather.  The dead brown look.  And mostly, the people.