You know your neighbor's visitors are from the city when...

[CobyRupert]

Do they make steel toed sandals?

Lol. I constantly ask my wife "Are those steel toed sandals?" on those occasions when she helps split or stack fire wood.
I find that sarcasm works better than pointing at her crocs and saying "What kind of a dumb&$$ splits wood in sandals?"

...then I'm expected to fake sympathy when a stick eventually falls on her toes.

 

[RSKY]

Here in western Kentucky the joke is always about out of state tourists stopping to tell a farmer that his barn is on fire. It is getting about the time of year when the barns are loaded with tobacco and "fired" by lighting a smoldering fire under the stalks. Fuel for the fire is sawdust and slabs. This goes on for more than a month each year.

Gosh I love that smell. It's not the tobacco burning but the slightly damp sawdust and a few bits of leaf that fall on the fire.

And every year somebody looses an entire years work when the tobacco catches fire and burns the building down. Then you have fifteen months work gone up in smoke.

RSKY

 

[DaveNJ]

love it when city types move out here and insist they hear fisher cats or cougars at night. They look at me like i'm an idiot when I say they're just foxes until they get a sound byte off the internet. Also usually takes them 6 months or so to stop calling the police every time they see a black bear passing through.

 

[Travelover]

I live next to a state park. Someone called the office to tell them that their turkeys were loose.

 

[3930dave]

.... they question why authorities put those deer, moose, animal crossings on busy highways.....

This thread is long enough that one may have already been mentioned..... but it's a classic that always cracks me up.....

Rgds, D.

 

[Dftodd]

Sad, but funny to watch them stand in a fire ant mound. Just not aware of much of anything. HS

Doesn't take them long to figure it out though

 

[jclaudii]

We have a family get together every year and one year some relatives from California came to Arkansas to stay and visit with the family. I remember the relatives wife saying she has never seen so much empty space, fields, trees, etc. But the best came when we were cleaning up and had a gator full of trashbags. I asked if she would help me unload them as I was already sitting in the gator with my 4 year old son letting him pretend to drive. I fired it up and asked my son to drive us to the end of the road. I thought she was going to bail out right then and there! He was sitting between me and doing his best to steer and I controlled the pedals and we were in low range, but I guess the sound of a high revving engine and that she was in a 4 year old hands did take her by surprise.

Her kids thought it was great, they fished, drove atvs, etc and they were teenagers!

 

[ultrarunner]

Most kids love being able to do things they otherwise would not be able to in the city...

Memories to last a lifetime.

 

[Redneck in training]

How about camo sandals?

My wife buys Reef sandals because they have a beer opener built in them. I live in heavy duty work boots or I am barefoot.
sandals with beer opener - Google Search

 

[Redneck in training]

Most kids love being able to do things they otherwise would not be able to in the city...

Memories to last a lifetime.

When I was a kid I grew up in a village just outside of the city. All parents worked so we were "free"until we got home around sunset. There was a gang of kids playing together between about 6 to about 18 years of age. Forest was just behind the corner. So the younger kids were, in essence, raised by the older kids. Every kid got pocket knife, a sling shot and full pocket of sling shot ammunition (crushed cast iron pots, stove plates or whatever cast iron we found in the village dump).
The problem kids face today is too much "supplied" entertainment and often lack of playmates. When our grandson comes to our place it is not fun to play alone. I told my son to bring one or two of his friends next time. Then you can get them loose and they will entertain themselves doing some mischief somewhere in the back forty.
When our kids were young we always took one or two friends for each to our vacation. It was money well spent. If you take only your kids they will wreck your vacation. If you have a gang of them they play together away from your sight. Or you put them on a boat with a guide and send them fishing for all day. They will bring very expensive fish but you will have great day and they will have memories they talk about long time after (Ours are over 30 now and still talk about that).