Damn You People!
Survey of a Colloquial Nature
Your Age: 24
Place Where You Grew Up: Glen Burnie, MD (it's sandwiched between Baltimore and DC, you can't miss it) but my parents were raised in a tiny town in the Allegheny mountains, Bradford PA.
WHAT DO YOU CALL....
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks:
Stream or a creek, depending on the color.
2. The thing you push around the grocery store:
Shopping cart.
3. A metal container to carry a meal in:
Metal? Lunch pail. A lunch box is plastic.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in:
Either a skillet (when it's cooking) or a frying pan (when it's not).
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people:
Sectional? Maybe a sofa or a couch, too.
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof:
Rain gutters/drain pipe.
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening:
Porch if it's got a platform, patio if it does not.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages:
Soda, of course.
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup:
Pancakes!
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself:
Sub!
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach:
Swim-suit, duh.
12. Shoes worn for sports:
Sneakers or athletic shoes.
13. Putting a room in order:
Clean-up or straighten, but for some reason, not straighten-up (although "clean" sans the "up" is acceptable).
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark:
Lightening bug!
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball:
Caterpillar.
16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down:
Teeter-totter, but generally when around other families, it was also a see-saw.
17. How you eat your pizza:
With my hands, on a ceramic plate.
18. What it's called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff:
Within a community: flea market (FLEA MARKETS FTW!!!!), solo, it's a yard sale.
19. The evening meal is called:
Dinner, although my father always called it supper.
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are:
"Downstairs" if finished, "basement" if not. However, "downstairs" is the more common.
21. The thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places:
The water fountain.
Your Age: 24
Place Where You Grew Up: Glen Burnie, MD (it's sandwiched between Baltimore and DC, you can't miss it) but my parents were raised in a tiny town in the Allegheny mountains, Bradford PA.
WHAT DO YOU CALL....
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks:
Stream or a creek, depending on the color.
2. The thing you push around the grocery store:
Shopping cart.
3. A metal container to carry a meal in:
Metal? Lunch pail. A lunch box is plastic.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in:
Either a skillet (when it's cooking) or a frying pan (when it's not).
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people:
Sectional? Maybe a sofa or a couch, too.
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof:
Rain gutters/drain pipe.
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening:
Porch if it's got a platform, patio if it does not.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages:
Soda, of course.
9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup:
Pancakes!
10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself:
Sub!
11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach:
Swim-suit, duh.
12. Shoes worn for sports:
Sneakers or athletic shoes.
13. Putting a room in order:
Clean-up or straighten, but for some reason, not straighten-up (although "clean" sans the "up" is acceptable).
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark:
Lightening bug!
15. The little insect that curls up into a ball:
Caterpillar.
16. The children's playground equipment where one kid sits on one side and goes up while the other sits on the other side and goes down:
Teeter-totter, but generally when around other families, it was also a see-saw.
17. How you eat your pizza:
With my hands, on a ceramic plate.
18. What it's called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff:
Within a community: flea market (FLEA MARKETS FTW!!!!), solo, it's a yard sale.
19. The evening meal is called:
Dinner, although my father always called it supper.
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are:
"Downstairs" if finished, "basement" if not. However, "downstairs" is the more common.
21. The thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places:
The water fountain.