One of the weekly Sunday rituals when I was growing up was reading the Sunday funnies after church and dinner.  Just a slower, easier time in the old south.  Though probably people did something similar throughout the country.  We don’t get a newspaper anymore, so I am not sure if he funnies are still apart of the paper, but I am thinking they are. Everyone loves the funnies!

Well, I have a Sunday funny for you and not comic strips.  It is from Jeff Foxworthy who is very famous for his  routine, “You may be a  redneck if you . . . . . ” all about his southern roots. A few days I saw this routine of his entitled , “You live in New England if. . . .  .” and I decided to share this as my Sunday funny!  I realize that non- Americans may not see the humor, but I hope you can  at least smile if not laugh!  Funny thing is that I  still think of myself as a Southerner….a Virginian actually, but I have lived in New York now longer than in Virginia.  I guess you can take the girl out of Virginia but not Virginia out of the girl.   Meet Jeff Foxworthy:

 If vacation means going anywhere south of New York City for the weekend, you live in New England . If you measure distance in hours, you live in New England . If you know several people who have hit a deer (crossing the road) more than once, you live in New England .

If you have switched from ‘heat’ to ‘A/C’ in the same day and back again, you live in New England . If you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you live in New England . If you install security lights on your house and garage but leave both unlocked, you live in New England.

If you carry jumpers to restart a dead battery  in your car and your wife knows how to use them, you live in New England.  If you design your kid’s Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit, you live in New England .

If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph you’re going 80 and everybody is passing you, you live in New England . If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow, you live in New England .

If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction,  you live in New England. If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you live in New England . If you find 10 degrees ‘a little chilly’, you live in New England .

If there’s a Dunkin Donuts on every corner, you live in New England . If you think everyone else has a funny accent, you live in New England .

If you actually understand these jokes, and forward them to all your New England friends, you live or have lived in New England.

The driving, weather, and the roads pretty much sums up the seeminly continuous winter. We do have the glorious colorful fall first though.

Namaste. . . . . This Is Life in  New England!