How to tell if you are a true Mississippian:
1. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.2. "Vacation" means going to a family reunion.
3. You've seen all the biggest bands ten years after they were popular.
4. You measure distance in minutes.
5. You know several people who have hit a deer.
6. Your school classes were canceled because the weather was too cold.
7. Your school classes were canceled because the weather was too hot.
8. You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
9. You think ethanol makes your truck "run a lot better."
10. Stores don't have bags; they have sacks.
11. Stores don't have carts; they have buggies.
12. You know if another Mississippian is from South, Middle or North Mississippi as soon as they open their mouth.
13. You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it.
14. You use "fix" as a verb." Example: I'm fixing to go to the store.
15. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, a vegetable or animal.
16. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both doors Unlocked.
17. You think of the major four food groups as beef, pork, beer and Chicken.
18. You carry jumper cables in your car...for your own car.
19. You know what "cow tipping" and "snipe hunting" are.
20. You only know four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup and Tabasco.
21. A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda or cola. It is "COKE," regardless of what flavor it is.
22. Going to Wal-Mart is a favorite past time known as "goin' Walmartin" or "goin' da' Wally World."
23. The local paper covers national news on one page, and requires six pages for sports.
24. You think deer season is a national holiday.
25. You know which leaves make good toilet paper.
26. You find 90 degrees Fahrenheit "a little warm."
27. You know all four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, Still Summer and Christmas.
28. You actually get these jokes.
* I can totally related to #27. It is so very HOT in the South this year!!
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