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Hayhurst’s Hayloft: Here are some tongue-in-cheek ways to know you must be from Indiana.

Susan Hayhurst

July 6, 2019

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BLUE SKY, GREEN CORN: If this isn’t heaven, it’s close to it. Yes, it must be Indiana!

Several years ago, my friend Cissy Haddox shared a list called “You know you’re from Indiana when …” While it does sound like ad-libbing from comedian Jeff Foxworthy, I’ll add my own “mad libs.”

You know you’re from Indiana when …

  • You drive for three hours and the scenery doesn’t change, and neither does the weather.

  • While driving all you see is corn and more corn.

  • Walking through Walmart with two carts full of kids is normal, and everyone is wearing their pajamas.

  • Anyone with a tan is rich, except farmers.

  • The hip hangout place is McDonald’s or any parking lot.

  • A restaurant has an invisible wall for the nonsmoking section, and you believe it works. You want the restaurant to add a working invisible wall for your children.

  • Speeding consists of 2 miles over the speed limit. Ask Terry Hayhurst.

  • You think you don’t have to use a turn signal on your car because you don’t use it on your tractor. Wait, do tractors even have one?

  • You “warsh” your clothes, and you think George Warshington was the first president. He wasn’t?

  • You have no problem spelling or pronouncing “Terre Haute.” Can you find it on the map?

  • Detasseling corn was your first job and baling hay your second. I’m sure emptying lagoons was your third.

  • You can say things like “catawampus” and “kitty-corner,” or just tell people to buzz off.

  • High school basketball games draw bigger crowds on weekend nights than movie theaters.

  • The vehicle of choice in your area is not a car but a pickup. But even more important, what kind of pickup?

  • You know what FFA and 4-H stand for. But can you say from memory their respective pledges?

  • The last “g” is silent in any word ending in “-ing.” I’m fixin’ to drive the balin’ tractor.

  • You think the state Bird is Larry. He must be from Terre Haute.

Hayhurst writes from Terre Haute, Ind.

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Susan Hayhurst

Susan Hayhurst writes from Terre Haute, Ind.

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