Ok, now that I am in a new city, I keep getting the same questions.
Usually people will pose questions about Missouri that aren't surprising...for instance, "How is Missouri like Illinois?" "What are the notable differences between here and there?" Or sometimes I get questions like, "Why are you EVEN HERE!!" Quite frankly, I am not amused.
Sometimes though, people are confused/ignorant to the ways of my great Show Me State.
1. We don't have an accent. YOU DO.
2. It's soda, not pop. C'mon. I never even heard of the word pop being used for the word soda until I was 17 and someone from Kansas City came around St. Louis and was spreading the heresy.
3. We're a city too, ya know. Sure, not as large, but a city nonetheless.
4. We're not liberal/we don't give the public assistance, Transit, help, cutbacks.
5. In the CITY city, we don't have country areas. Again, see #3. This woman I work with said, "Oh yeah, you're from St. Louis? I visited St. Louis one time....it was beautiful. Such country areas. Lovely wildlife and scenery."
Uhhh. If by scenery, you mean, smoke stacks, then yeah, we have nice scenery. Or, if by scenery, you mean a preponderance of glock-bearing citizens, then yeah, great view. If you are seeing wildlife other than dead fish and mice in the city of St. Louis, then YOU ARE NOT IN ST. LOUIS.
6. Oh, we don't just have one type of pizza. We, unlike you, have thin crust, crust and thick crust (and our sauce goes UNDER the cheese, as God and all mankind intended).
7. Our hot dogs suck in St. Louis.
8. Polish population in Chicago: 1.999 billion. Polish population in St. Louis: 10 people total (5 of which are just visiting from Chicago). Haha.
9. We're a lot like you, except we're from Missouri.
10. We're to the left, to the left. A young girl I work with said, "So, where exactly IS Missouri?" And then later she said, "So where exactly IS St. Louis."
Man, if she wasn't my favorite Chicagoan.....
