Subdeacon Joe Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 Found on Facebook. The headline on it says S Illinois, but except for the crop types, could be almost any rural area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MizPete Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 If you're confused about whether you're in the South, you ain't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 You’re riding a long distance on a bicycle. You need water. You see someone tending the flowers. You ask for water. You are invited inside for water, cakes and coffee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sedalia Dave Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 You stop to ask for directions because you are lost and they give them by landmarks and not road names. As you drive away wondering why you suddenly realize there are no street signs and you haven't seen any for several hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 In my experience southern Illinois, Iowa, Indiana are much like “the South” Here in the US. Probably more so than the South itself these days. In 2005, when I moved to Charlotte, it was a long time before I actually met someone born and raised in Charlotte (the city of). Everyone was from “up north”. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outrider Outlaw Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 Once got directions to someplace from my uncle. They went something like this: drive down this road for about 5 miles. Turn left at the crossroads where the church used to be before it burned down. Had no problem finding that spot as the cemetery was still there and it was obvious that it had been a church cemetery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Dan Troop 70448 Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 Central rural Illinois is the same, you would think you were in any state but Illinois. Drivers wave at each other. We are in no hurry and will follow a slow moving farm vehicles for miles, enjoying the scenery and actually listening to the radio. We help each other out, in plowing, planting, harvesting, and bringing the crop to grain elevators. Go on vacations, and someone will mow your lawn and take care of gardens, your livestock, and your mail, Funny story. I lived on 700 Rd. I needed to get my hay into barn, over 5000 bales and called up some friends to help next day since there was rain in forecast in 3 days coming. Well, with no notice, the state changed all the road numbers, mine was now 7000, no longer 700. Next day, no show on those that had promised to help. About 2PM cars started showing up. Seems they all drove south trying to get to 700 Rd. They knew I didn't live that far out and stopped the convoy at the 1200 Rd to finally ask for direction when they discovered what had happened over the last few days with change in numbers. How many city folks would go out of their way to help like Rural folks do? MT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr. O. R. Vet Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 Once was getting directions to a piano tuning way out in the country. Part of the directions were: "Turn right at the corner of the field with the spotted cow in it"..... (Hopfully the cow would be near that corner so I could see her!!!!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smoken D Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 You know you are in Kansas because all the dust roads run either North-South or East-West. There are no curves. This way John Deere's Biggest combine, The S690 with 616C Corn Head, never has to make a turn. Lock the steering wheel in and let it go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Widder, SASS #59054 Posted January 2, 2018 Share Posted January 2, 2018 1 hour ago, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said: In my experience southern Illinois, Iowa, Indiana are much like “the South” Here in the US. Probably more so than the South itself these days. In 2005, when I moved to Charlotte, it was a long time before I actually met someone born and raised in Charlotte (the city of). Everyone was from “up north”. "UP North" means........ Asheville. ..........Widder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smuteye John SASS#24774 Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 On 1/2/2018 at 6:46 AM, Sedalia Dave said: You stop to ask for directions because you are lost and they give them by landmarks and not road names. As you drive away wondering why you suddenly realize there are no street signs and you haven't seen any for several hours. That's the only way I can give directions in the area where I live. The problem is, many of my 'landmarks' are useless to anyone but me. I turn left at the intersection where the 2 Mustangs had that bad wreck back in '86 and go down past where So and So's Momma and Daddy used to live to where the old rock wall used to be to make another turn to where they paved that old dirt road that ran between the soy bean fields (which are subdivisions now) and hang a right. I grew up around here and there weren't any road signs. We navigated by landmarks. Right after I moved away, Alabama started the 911 system and the county came out and put up signs with road numbers on all of the roads. When I moved back over a decade later, I didn't need to know the numbers to move around, so I've never bothered to learn them. The only road numbers that I'm sure of are the road I live on and the 2 roads at each end of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MizPete Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 On 1/2/2018 at 8:25 AM, Pat Riot, SASS #13748 said: In 2005, when I moved to Charlotte, it was a long time before I actually met someone born and raised in Charlotte (the city of). Everyone was from “up north”. 1) my mother-in-law was a Charlotte native. Predates 2005 by a long shot. 2) don't get me started. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MizPete Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 On 1/2/2018 at 9:44 AM, Widowmaker Hill SASS #59054 said: "UP North" means........ Asheville. No, it don't. BTW, Asheville is out west. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted January 3, 2018 Share Posted January 3, 2018 55 minutes ago, MizPete said: 1) my mother-in-law was a Charlotte native. Predates 2005 by a long shot. 2) don't get me started. I apparently didn't run onto your mother-in-law Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cactus Jack Calder Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 I worked for an electric utility “up north” in New York State. While out on a survey of one of the lines, I heard the radio dispatcher give directions to a crew to find a small outage. “You go down to Barky Delgarions garage, turn left and when you come to the big rock that’s been split in half turn right. They are about two hay fields further on, on the right.” That is a direct quote as I used them to find the outage myself, and Barky Delgarion had been out of business for about 12 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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