- During a storm, you check the cattle before the kids.
- You are related to more than half the town.
- Your quarterback is hurt and you are hoping it is the first thing on the six o'clock news, and it is.
- You use your life savings to go to the Nebraska-Colorado game.
- You can wear red and white overalls in public and not feel stupid.
- There's a tornado warning and the whole town is outside watching for the tornado.
- You think Abraham Lincoln was named for the capital of Nebraska.
- You know the Woodmen Tower is not made of wood.
- You don't buy all of your vegetables at the grocery store.
- You go to the State Fair for your ONLY vacation.
- You are on a first name basis with the county sheriff.
- When little smokies are something you serve only for special occasions.
- You go to the lake because you think it is like going to the ocean.
- You have the number to the Co-op feed store on speed dial.
- You know what the "sea of red & white" is.
- You think that using the elevator involves a corn truck.
- Your mayor is also the doctor, barber, and/or dentist.
- You listen to the weather forecast before picking out an outfit.
- You are walking knee deep in snow.
- You call the wrong number by mistake and talk to the person for an hour anyway.
- You know cow pies are not made of beef.
- Your excuse for getting out of school is that the cows got out.
- Your early Morning Prayer covers rain, cattle, and Frank Solich.
- You consider a romantic evening to include driving through McDonald's and renting a hunting instruction video.
- You want to buy manure.
- You listen to "Paul Harvey" every day at noon.
- Your nearest neighbor is in the next area code.
- You know the difference between field corn and sweet corn, when they are still on the stalk.
- You pick up all the free stuff at the State Fair.
- Football schedules are checked before wedding dates are set.
- You can eat an ear of corn with no utensils in less than 20 seconds.
- You wear your irrigation boots to church.
- You know enough to get your driving done early on Sundays (before the Sunday drivers come out.)
- It takes 3 minutes to reach your destination and it's clear across town.
- You can tell the smell of a skunk and the smell of a feedlot apart.
- True love means you'll ride on a tractor with him.
- You consider a building to be a "mall" if it's bigger than the local Alco.
- You call lunch "dinner" and dinner "supper."
- You complain about interstate construction.
- You think it's normal to get a side of spaghetti at a steakhouse.
- You avoid Omaha because you're afraid of getting mugged.