Is there some kind of weird little thing people in your area/town/state/province do?

Other things about Alaska:
"Turkey Bowling" was quite a thing! ( frozen turkeys on frozen sidewalks.
The ONE grocery store had a lady playing classical music on a grand piano when you walked in the store.
Elementary school children carried rifles over their shoulders walking back and forth to school.
 

They tend to have family gatherings for minor reasons. Yesterday my daughter-in-law turned 30. Fire up the grill and bring a covered dish. Never was a big deal in my family. Once you made it to 8, you should have enough sense to be alive and don't need celebrations anymore.
 

Judycat said:
They tend to have family gatherings for minor reasons. Yesterday my daughter-in-law turned 30. Fire up the grill and bring a covered dish. Never was a big deal in my family. Once you made it to 8, you should have enough sense to be alive and don't need celebrations anymore.
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Life isn't a walk in the park, man, it's tough. For some, every single day is a challenge, but nobody's got it easy, not one of us. I celebrate every year just for getting through it.
 
Hardly a little thing, but . . . Side shows have been going on for years in the cities. They have even stopped traffic on the GGB and major highways to spin donuts and other ridiculous antics to just show off. Now, down here in the sticks, idiots are spinning donuts in intersections at night. At least it's at night when nobody's around. The cops do nothing. They are powerless against the mobs of fanatics. :mad:
 
SetWave said:
Hardly a little thing, but . . . Side shows have been going on for years in the cities. They have even stopped traffic on the GGB and major highways to spin donuts and other ridiculous antics to just show off. Now, down here in the sticks, idiots are spinning donuts in intersections at night. At least it's at night when nobody's around. The cops do nothing. They are powerless against the mobs of fanatics. :mad:
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Side shows is the one thing cops will come here for - to show off. They can out-donut most, but then, you know....
 
CinnamonSugar said:
On the linguistic front, double negatives (even heard a woman manage a *triple* negative )

In driving, some folks around here will get into the on-coming lane before they turn left Freaks me out every time
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Ever hear the legal term "Negative Pregnant". Nothing to do with babies, etc.
 
The driving around here is scary. {My husband says that drivers from Mexico do not require to have car insurance; that explains how negligent they drive.}

One has to have eyeballs in the back of their head in order to drive safely amongst these folks. I'm not kidding you.
 
PamfromTx said:
The driving around here is scary. {My husband says that drivers from Mexico do not require to have car insurance; that explains how negligent they drive.}

One has to have eyeballs in the back of their head in order to drive safely amongst these folks. I'm not kidding you.
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Oh yes, every time I go back to ElPaso I encounter this. I am told that their commercial trucks that come further North are insured and maintained better.
 
In Canada, when we played way up north in small town bars, we often heard "get pissed, eh!". Rather than "angry", "pissed" referred to getting drunk.

Tony
 
tbeltrans said:
In Canada, when we played way up north in small town bars, we often heard "get pissed, eh!". Rather than "angry", "pissed" referred to getting drunk.

Tony
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Pissed means drunk here too.....it only means annoyed if you put off as the second word...Pissed off.. ( fed up, annoyed)
 

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