Funniest Things A City Slicker Has Ever Said To You?

[Sir Birdaholic]

Yeah, check out Heber Springs, Arkansas! Here there is a wide variety of,...... uh ........well........ Ok, I'm wrong.

Were all rednecks!

 

[KristyHall]

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Um.. how long you been out of the city??

when did being country mean lacking sophistication? *hides her muddy boots*
BTW ever been to Huntsville Alabama? A very cosmopolitan city that also happens to have farm animals in the city limits. People from all over the world to work and go to school here because one of the largest military bases (Redstone Arsenal), NASA, and major engineering companies are here. It is listed as one of the top ten places to work at in the US, with low cost of living, higher pays, one of the nations lowest unemployment rates, and it's also listed as a very green city as well with lost of trees, parks, Museums, learning centers, and pedestrian friendly streets. (I'm proud of my area can you tell?)
Oh yeah check out Houston Texas. A mix of big city and country all in one. Its awesome

Ok I am reading everything late, so just letting you know I'm not mad or offended and I read on after posting and saw things were settled so I hope i don't start an argument! *hugs everyone*

 

[KristyHall]

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Well....
The first time I encountered a cross walk was interesting. I was in college and I was giving a performance at a cultural arts fair in Huntsville AL. I was in full regalia (Women's traditional buck skin. I was apart of the global village with a group of people with the Indian ed program demonstrating different native arts past and present.) There were no cars and there was a crossing guard. So I just decided to walk canty corner across the street and then stood in the middle of the road and stared in confusion at the strange lady in orange yelling at me and motioning with two hands down along the white lines like she was trying to land a plane. I looked around then looked up to make sure no planes were landing then looked back at her and said "what?" she said " use the cross walk!" I said " cross walk but I am crossing the street!" She became more agitated and kept motioning franticly to the double white lines and said " cross walk! " and I asked " what crosswalk?!"And it suddenly dawned on her... I wasn't being difficult I really had no clue what she was telling me to do! I think it made it even worse for her because I was wearing full buckskin!
About the moment that dawned on her, I realized what she wanted and I sheepishly scampered to the cross walk and crossed it. Never mind that intersection was closed do to the arts festival making the entire point of using a cross walk moot!

 

[KristyHall]

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My mother was born in the 40's. She was born in Alabama but raised in Detroit. My grandparents not only went to Detroit to find work but to escape persecution by blending in with the immigrants there. (It was safer to be an immigrant than Native back then.)
Even in Detroit my mother remembers watching slide shows at school about farming techniques and showing things like a Native burying a fish in a hill. Now fast forward to when I was in a rural country school. None of that. Nada. Not till high school and I joined the ag-science class and FFA. Even then, the teaching was based largely on technology based agriculture as well as intensive industrialized methods. What are people going to do when we run out of oil to run all this technology? Or something happens and there is a nation wide disturbance in the ability to ship, or disturb the electricity or water supply?
I mean how many big farmers know what variates of low care plants do well in their region without pesticides and petroleum based fertilizers?
It's a scary thought. I am not saying that a big disaster will happen, but there is always a risk and when we rely too much on tech, insecticides, machinery, and mono culture, we're shooting ourselves in the foot as a species.

 

[Amyable]

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Crosswalk Nazi, sheesh. She'd have loved me - no cars coming, I cross. I don't need a little light to tell me when its safe to walk.

 

[sourland]

I embrace my "appalling lack of sophistication. Blue collar and red neck suit me fine although the chameleon in me allows me to survive at any level I might choose.

 

[KristyHall]

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my sister has scars around both shoulder because her shoulders would pop out of the sockets.... she tells people she was born with her arms on the wrongs side and they had to change them around. lol

Ouch! I feel for your sister. the women in my family are double jointed and hyper flexible. We all bear scars from surgeries to fix damage from repeated dislocations.
I have a scar on me knee from surgery. I and my mother use to take martial arts and she and I were sparing one day. I was doing a spinning round house kick and my heel caught on the floor and I did a full body rotation on my knee, effectively dislocating it pretty badly.
To this day my mother tells people I hurt my knee trying to kick her!
She thinks its funny as I explain to horrified people that no, i do not beat on my mother! We were sparing.
I know where my evil streak comes from, my mother and her wicked humor.

 

[KristyHall]

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I was watching a design show, and the host was pointing out the deer antler chandelier. She said, "These are artificial antlers, so no animals were harmed for the making of this chandelier."

WOW! to both

i don't understand. what was the dumb statement?

 

[StupidBird]

antlers are shed every year.

 

[mstricer]

They really drive horse and buggy at night isn't that dangerous