The other day I heard someone ask a girl if she was from Cedar. She replied "No way, are you kidding me!?!" She continued, "I'm from southern Idaho." I didn't say anything, (I know, shocking right?) But all I could thing was, "Wow, is southern Idaho that much better than Cedar? Southern Idaho must be America's best kept secret!"
We've all experienced it. That moment when someone asks you if your from somewhere. If you're not, you have 2 options: 1 - politely say where you are from or 2 - indignantly say "NO!" and make that place sound like it might as well be as horrible to live in as Antarctica.
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More than once I have been asked if I'm from Cedar or some other rural town. Unfortunately I wasn't born in the sticks and don't know how to hog-tie anything. Except Preston Myers. But when asked this I just politely say where I'm from. Anyone who knows me knows that I'm not shy about giving my opinion; but I don't think it's necessary to make someone's hometown sound more awful than sitting next to the overweight guy on a plane who forgot his pepto bismal at home. Lot's of times, people who aren't from Utah get asked if they are from Utah, and their reply, often, is "NO WAY!!" Like something is so terrible with Utah. May I remind you, no one asked you to come here, no one is forcing you to stay, and if you think it's that awful, we would just assume you DIDN'T live here.
So next time you act like Cedar is so terrible, or any other place I am currently living in, I won't say anything, but know that I'm thinking..."Then leave, we don't need you here." Oh and if you don't like lighthouses...you suck.
