Neato | You Know You're From Kansas When...

NAIROBI, KENYA - I thought of home when I read this.

You Know You're From Kansas When...

• You've been hit by enough tornados to know there is no such thing as Oz
• You can properly pronounce Salina, Basehor, Schoenchen, Olathe & Osawatomie.
• A shotgun is your idea of instant messaging.
• You learned how to shoot a gun before you learned how to multiply.
• You're ready to shoot the next person who asks about Toto & Dorthy.
• You've had classes canceled for heat & snow in the same month.
• You support the Chiefs through thick and thin.
• You have to travel 20 miles just to go to the nearest mall.
• The only tourists you see are on the way to Colorado.
• You know the meaning of Rock Chalk Jayhawk.
• Your closest neighbor is more than a mile away, and you can still see him from your front porch.
• The terms Sooners, Huskers and Missouri Tigers cause the hairs on the back of your neck to stand up straight and your blood pressure to rise.
• You are not surprised to find movie rentals, ammunition and bait all in the same store.
• You know everything goes better with Ranch.
• You know the real way to pronounce the name of Clintons state and the river... arKANSAS.
• You never met any celebrities. (Bob Dole isn't a celebrity, he's your neighbor.)
• You prefer the Little Apple over the Big Apple as a place to live.
• You had at least one summer job that was bucking bails or custom cutting.
• You understand the difference between 3.2 and 6 point, and more than once you've made a beer run to another state.
• You know in your heart that K-State can beat Oklahoma in football.
• You call that smell coming from the feed yards "money."
• You know that Mt. Oread is really only just a hill.
• Down south means Oklahoma.
• You can properly pronounce Basehor, Cimmeron, Schoenchen, Kechi, Chautauqua, Arkalalah, and Osawatomie.
• You really do think Sunflowers are beautiful.
• You went to skating parties as a kid.
• You'll pay for your kids to go to college...unless they want to go to OU or NU.
• Your earliest driving lessons were in a field while picking up hay.
• Your excuse for being late is the cows got out, and the boss accepts it MANY times.
• Your main drag in town is two blocks long.