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TANNER'S MOM wrote: Our youngest is 6..and he has always lived in the country..the older kids are more cityfied..they go to there dads etc..

You would think there would be no difference in the kids..but sometimes it shows up in funny ways.. Like this Summer was the first time Tanner ever saw an ice cream truck, while vistiting family that familar song came playing down the road and the kids starting grabbing dollars..Tanner had no idea what for?? When he found out he could't contain himself.. He couldn't believe a man would drive down your street and bring you ice cream. The whole summer that is what he wanted to be when he grew up, an ice cream man. The thought was making me so proud..

So, one Sunday we passed yet another country bumpkin milestone..For the first time in Tanner's life, a neighbor knocked on his door and asked him to come out and play. This has never happened before. Our driveway is almost 1 mile long..and this little boy ( who we had never met) had just moved to the bottom of the hill. His mom drove him up..and said he can walk down hill. Poor guy!!

This was so exciting to Tanner to have a REAL neighbor to play with. He even called my Dad and told him someone knocked on the door and asked him to play. He told Pa that he had seen it on Tv but had never seen it happen!!

Welcome to Green Acres son, was what my Dad told him..I am still trying to get him to understand that! Nick at Nite here we come!

mckayleesmom replied: LOL...poor guy...LOL...

I had the opposite experience when I moved. I was born and raised in California and when I was a sophmore in high school we moved to Orion Illinois..Population barely anything...seriously just like Mayberry..LoL...The first couple weeks,,me and my sister could not get over the fact that people waived to you when you drove by. Drove us nuts. Then when I moved to Minnesota (sorry people..I think alot of Minnesotians are rude..besides Mollie and Jennifer) I was appalled because nobody waived...LOL I told my husband

"I want to move back to Illinois...people are so rude and they don't even waive to you here".


I also went from a school of 4000 kids to 250. The grocery store was smaller then my house and they took your groceries out for you blink.gif , although in some stores you have to bag your own groceries and in California they have baggers.


***The ice cream man thing is hillarious because everytime I go to visit family in California I stop every single ice cream man I see...LoL...I miss them. I also gained a bunch visiting dry.gif

~Roo'sMama~ replied: Lol that's funny. I grew up in the country and so those things never happend to me either! I think the first time I saw an ice cream truck was when I was 16 and in Detroit for a month! tongue.gif

BTW I'm envious of your mile long driveway... our driveway was about a quarter of a mile ~ I'd LOVE to be even farther from the road! biggrin.gif Someday dh and I are going to live in a nice secluded house in the country where we won't have to worry about our kids getting hit by cars if we let them go outside to play. wacko.gif

~Roo'sMama~ replied:
Lol don't worry I'm from minnesota and I think that a lot of people here are rude too. I think instead of "Minnesota nice" they should call it "Minnesota chill" or something like that. rolleyes.gif But way out in waaaaaayyy rural MN where I grew up people still wave at you... they don't where I live now. wink.gif

TANNER'S MOM replied:
lol That is funny.. everyone we pass in my town you have to nod to at least..and if you are feeling friendly u do the cool vehicle wave.. nod and at the same time you barely lift your hand.

All six of us do this at the same time I am sure it looks funny.

My town of Wesley Arkansas is pop 160..

We have a gas station and a post office has big as my bathroom at home!

mckayleesmom replied: Well we lived in Duluth before and they are rude...but now we live in a small town where it isn't as bad.... cool.gif

mckayleesmom replied:
I call it Minnesucka......lol rolling_smile.gif

Kaitlin'smom replied: wow you never think about things like that, I am a city girl and when I visit MIL is so weird, she lives way out in Omish country, its nice but for me to far from anything, I never thougth she would be the type to live in the country and raise cows laugh.gif

texasp3 replied: My ex is from way up north in Minnesota... I never thought of Minnesotans as rude, but certainly more reserved than the folks in other places I had lived or visited. There's that whole third person thing going on too... LOL!! When I was first dating him he was always saying "A guy could... " and I finally realized that "a guy" was HIM!! He had some amusing insights into his own town and the people there, but mostly what he taught me is that most Minnesotans have a deep sense of privacy and try to respect the privacy of others - then come across as cold, or rude.

I'm glad Tanner has a nice new neighbor. You can live in some pretty crowded places and never have anyone knock on your door and ask you to come out and play!

A&A'smommy replied: LOL that is too cute!!! wub.gif WTG he made a new friend how fun!!! thumb.gif

moped replied: Awwwwwww, what a nice sotry - I would have loved to see him telling that to Pa..........................LOL

MomToMany replied: LOL, my kids are still waiting for those things to happen to them too! How excited Tanner must have been!

Not all Minnesotans suck. I know a few who are friendly rolling_smile.gif . Some are quite rude! We live by a small town where they will bag your groceries and take them out to your car.

At the Pizza Hut in Grand Rapids, our waiter asked to watch Kayla (who was about 3 months old at the time) while we ate. Um, NO, that's a bit too friendly, LOL!

Boys r us replied: Aww How neat!! Bless his little heart!! My Tanner doesn't have neighbors either, even though we don't live in the sticks and there is a subdivision right across the street from our house, we live on 80 acres and our house is about 400 ft off of the road..so...if he plays with friends it's because good ole mom gets to drive him there or his friends get dropped off here.

akbutterfly83 replied: That's soo neat... glade he has a friend to play with now.....

I lives in a small villagin Alaska until I was 12 and that was the first time I seen a Ice cream truck too.. LOL... and the first time someone knocked on my door and asked me to come out and play, was when I was 16 adn lived in a town of 180 people..... and they were the most friendly people.... I miss it there.....

that's where I wanna raise Mason.... in the county in Alaska.....

Josie83 replied: That's so sweet! I can just imagine little Tanner getting so excited at a friend coming to call for him! WHat a sweetie xx


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