In my younger days, I worked at various ice cream establishments on Cape Cod. I often worked the late shift - better tips and thus got to serve the drunk and clueless. Many a time I directed some clown to the bridge to Nantucket (or Martha's Vineyard). Right off the pier....
C
Don't feel bad, Sheena. ND is forgotten, too. If you watch the Weather Channel, they give info on MN and east, SD and south and just kind of pretend that ND and the eastern half of Montana aren't there! And that's in their own country! How do you expect them to remember that eastern bit of Canada???? LOL
Joan
Don't feel too bad about that. Up until last year our local stations, including the major ones, ignored Port Saint Lucie when they gave a weather report, or even when they printed a map. They insisted on putting us in Fort Pierce, which is the county seat. I should add that we are a city of
150,000 and it still it took 20 years to recognize that we exist.We only got recognition when the residents had a fit and stormed the TV stations with mail and calls.
Lucille
Well on balance, I think I will take the guy at 1000 Islands rather than you !!!! Shame on you Cheryl.
Too true, I never see mention of you in ND.
Put yourself in my shoes. I'm working for less than minimum wage (tips are supposed to be the main source of income and who tips the girl that scoops your cone?) and you're getting this question 5-6 a night, 6 days a week. Most of them don't believe you that Nantucket and MV are islands, you need a ferry or a plane to get there and they don't run like subway trains and buses in NYC or Atlanta or Quebec. Or they accuse you of not knowing any geography?
And some nights, the only amusement is telling the drunks how to drive off the docks. After you've cleaned up the spills from the tables and barf in the toilets. And had to pay their bill out of your tips.
C
Yeah. Don't you Canadians understand that the only country that matters is the US? The rest of the world is unimportant.
Before the Olympics, they were taking pre-orders for tickets only from US residents. Some fellow swore that the call center employee refused to take his order because New Mexico is a foreign country, and told him to call back after they were taking international orders. He never did convince the bimbo that there is a state called New Mexico.
Many RVers have maps on the side of their rigs, and stick on the states and/or provinces where they have traveled. It is amazing how many have a blank for ND, and all the surrounding states are filled in.
Jim and I purchase a new map for each RV we have, so the map indicates the travels of that specific rig. It looks strange, because, on the current one we have all the states surrounding *SD* and SD is blank!
Gill
No wish to be in your shoes lol OK - uncle !
I wouldn't do it now, but sometimes the urge do similar misdirect a jerk does surface... C
At my mother's funeral, my father announced that in 52 years, they had travelled to all but 4 of 50 states. I'm pretty sure ND was one they didn't make.
Elizabeth
ND, SD, MT ... 3 people and a million livestock. Nobody watching Weather Channel, so why bother? ;)
We have friends who are permanently on the road in an RV. Their mailing address is a box office in North Dakota because they need an address to be able to vote, and because ND state taxes are very low in order to attract new 'residents'. Many long-term RVs do the same thing.
About the only state they haven't visited in the RV is Hawaii :) They did Alaska (and of course the intervening Canadian provinces) two years ago, and this year spent 40 days in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
MargW
The next time you see one of these, you'll have to tell them they
*need* to visit ND! After all, it's beautiful country, wiiiiiiiiiiiide open spaces and is home to one of the friendliest people on earth! :)That is strange. Many more people will travel to SD for the Black Hills and Mt. Rushmore before they come to the Badlands. The next time you're up here, you really must see the Peace Gardens!
Joan
Not surprising, since about the only time ND makes the news and puts it into people's heads that we exist is when we're having a bad blizzard or a flood! :)
Joan
Brat! Actually we don't even have much livestock anymore (well, in ND, anyway). We're mostly a small-grain-farming state. Let's see what people would think if we stopped growing durum wheat and making their pasta prices go through the roof due to the *greatly* reduced supply! :)
Joan
Interesting! Also, ND is the only state that doesn't have voter registration.
Joan, North Dakotan and proud of it! :)
We did that for four years after JIm took early retirement, at age 55. We used Texas for our mail service; they have no state income tax, low fees to license the RV, and with the address that we used, made us eligible to vote. It was a wonderful life, and we might still be doing it, if we hadn't been grounded by JIm's Mom, who wouldn't/couldn't take care of herself in the nice condo we bought for her. Long time back, but it was a great life.
We have missed a few provinces, BC, Manitoba and the northern ones. We also spent 47 days in the Maritimes, and fell inlove with it. That was when we were lucky enough to visit with Sheena and Ruby!!
I think the only states we haven't visited are the three on the west coast, and Alaska.
If I am reborn, I think I might want to be a Newfie!!
Gill
Sorry to respond to my own post, but here's proof of what I just said. It's an article in the newest National Geographic and it makes it sound just like Karen said: Only 3 people, so why bother?! Pretty disgusting, IMO!
I found the line about the 'rain would always follow the plough' very sad. Such hopes and disappointments.
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