If you grew up in the Midwest

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If You Grew Up in the Midwest, then...

• You know how to polka, but never tried it sober.
• You know what knee-high by the Fourth of July means.
• You know it is traditional for the bride and groom to go bar hopping between the reception and wedding dance.
• You know the difference between 'Green' and 'Red' farm machinery, and would fight with your friends on the playground over which was better!
• You buy Christmas presents at Fleet Farm, or Tractor Supply Co.
• You spent more on beer & liquor than you did on food at your wedding.
• You hear someone use the word 'uff-da' and you don't break into uncontrollable laughter.
• You or someone you know was a 'Dairy Princess' at the county fair.
• You know that 'combine' is a noun
• You let your older siblings talk you into putting your tongue on a steel post in the middle of winter.
• You think Lutheran and Catholic are THE major religions.
• You know that 'creek' rhymes with 'pick'.
• Football schedules, hunting season, and harvest, are all taken into consideration before wedding dates are set.
• A Friday night date is getting a six-pack and taking your girlfriend shining for deer.
• At least one, if not several, in your class who had to help milk cows in the morning.
• You have driven your car on the lake.
• Every wedding dance you have ever been to has the hokey pokey and the chicken dance.
• Your definition of a small town is one that only has one bar.
• The local gas station sells live bait.
• At least twice a year some part of your home doubles as a meat processing plant.
• You think that the start of deer season is a national holiday.
• You actually understand these jokes and will forward them to all your Midwestern friends!!!!!
• The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.