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laundry_queen

(8,646 posts)
32. LOL yep.
Thu Dec 6, 2012, 01:51 AM
Dec 2012

I've helped push cars out, I've been pushed out, I've helped boost cars and I've had my car boosted. It's the kind of place where, in the days before cell phones, when your car wouldn't start, you'd go wandering around the parking lot at the mall asking people if they had a set of booster cables. It usually only took asking 1 or 2 people.

I've barbequed at -15 before. And I've suntanned at +13. LOL. I've seen people ski in short sleeves before. I've trick-or-treat'ed in weather so cold my plastic dracula cape shattered into a million bits.

When I lived up north (not in any of the territories, but close), I was a little shocked how it was always -50 with the wind near Christmas. I never knew breathing through your nose would make your nostrils stick together at that temperature, but you have to or you'll freeze your lungs. You could totally tell the people who grew up there versus those who were from other parts of Canada - those who grew up there would be picking up their kids in a long sleeve shirt and a fleece vest, with running shoes on. The rest of us who didn't grow up there were wearing knee-length down parkas with kamiks or sorels, with an aviator hat on our head, skidoo elbow-length mittens on, and a 10 foot long fleece scarf wrapped around your neck and head till you only had your eyes peeking out.

Good one! hedgehog Dec 2012 #1
hedgehog Diclotican Dec 2012 #2
I live in a snowbelt - we typically get 185 " (73 cm) of snow, but have been hedgehog Dec 2012 #3
I don't usually do this, but A Simple Game Dec 2012 #5
Um. Chan790 Dec 2012 #15
Oopsie! hedgehog Dec 2012 #17
I've seen a similar joke, only with Estonians LiberalEsto Dec 2012 #4
I've seen one re Finns ... Flaxbee Dec 2012 #6
Similar to living in Northern Canada TrogL Dec 2012 #7
LOL yep. laundry_queen Dec 2012 #32
Sounds like Minnesota. The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2012 #8
It has been darn right summery here in Minnesota nadine_mn Dec 2012 #29
Uffda. Scuba Dec 2012 #9
Scuba Diclotican Dec 2012 #10
Ha! That sounds like Minnesota too! I'm a Minnesotan of Norwegian (and Irish) descent. myrna minx Dec 2012 #11
myrna minx Diclotican Dec 2012 #12
The little Norweign I know is quite arcane - they're phrases from the late myrna minx Dec 2012 #14
myrna minx Diclotican Dec 2012 #21
My mother always called her grandfather "Bestefar." The Velveteen Ocelot Dec 2012 #30
Velveteen Ocelot Diclotican Dec 2012 #31
"Every Norwegian knows at least four languages, and three of them are Norwegian." KamaAina Dec 2012 #24
KamaAina Diclotican Dec 2012 #25
Meanwhile.... HarveyDarkey Dec 2012 #13
HarveyDarkey Diclotican Dec 2012 #18
And that is why so many Norwegians move to Minnesota. MineralMan Dec 2012 #16
MineralMan Diclotican Dec 2012 #19
Exactly. My wife's ancestors came MineralMan Dec 2012 #20
Garrison Keilor points out... TrogL Dec 2012 #22
TrogL Diclotican Dec 2012 #26
"Norway wins the Eurovision Song Contest" KamaAina Dec 2012 #23
KamaAina Diclotican Dec 2012 #27
Sounds like Fargo! Odin2005 Dec 2012 #28
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