You know you're in South Dakota When:

  You own only three spices - salt, pepper and ketchup

  You design your Halloween costumes to fit over a snowsuit

  You have more miles on your snow blower than your car

  You have 10 favorite recipes for venison

  Menards on any weekend is busier than the toy stores at Christmas

  You've taken your kids trick-or-treating in a blizzard

  Driving is better in the winter because the potholes get filled with snow

  You think everyone from the city has an accent

  You think sexy lingerie is tube socks and a flannel nightie with only 8 buttons

  You owe more money on your snowmobile than your car

  The local paper covers national and international headlines on l/4 page, but requires 6 pages for sports

  Your snow blower gets stuck on the roof

  You think the start of deer hunting season is a national holiday

  Summer takes place the second week of July (and it still rains!!)

  You know which leaves make good toilet paper

  You find -20F a little chilly

  The trunk of your car doubles as a deep freezer

  You attended a formal event in your best clothes, your finest jewelry and your snowmobile boots

  Shoveling the driveway constitutes a great upper body workout

  You know the 4 seasons:  Winter, Still Winter, Almost Winter, and Construction.

  The municipality buys a zamboni before a bus

  You drink "Vernors" and play "Euchre"

  You actually 'get' these jokes, and forward them to all your South Dakota friends

  Rush hour lasts more than 5 min

  Visiting Grandmother makes the local newspaper

  Praire dogs outnumber people 10 to 1

  You forget you have to go back to work

  Pick-up trucks outnumber cars

  Cowboy boots and hats are a fashion statement

  It snows a foot in July

  The stars keep you awake at night

  The next stop light is 350 miles

  The buffalo roam while the deer and the antelope play

  The wind blows you into the next state.

  You get run off main street by a combine.

                            

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