There’s a Beer Sign that hasn’t been a beer sign for probably 15 years at least that people around where I live still know what you mean when giving directions.
My Grandpa in South Carolina once told me to turn at the old something mansion that burned down 30 years back. 🤣🤣 And then he told me the story of how it burned down and ended with telling me to turn at the gas station across the road. 🤣🤣
classic -haha. Ya der - go down dat a way, till see the see the red barn that burned down - they be some old blocks around that area der - ya know, hang a right and go a few I don't know der, maybe 5- 8 fields or so and take a turn at the big oak treeeee der, that should get ya going right on path der. And I fully understand. Thank ya der sir, need some help der. Noooo - ok see ya now.
As a midwesterner....those compliments make our day. But if you say thank you without a backwards back story, someone might think you're high and mighty. Can't have that.😂
Pay attention, this is important. He left out a really important part of the midwest goodbye in the words, but he did it with his actions. He looked down at his shoes immediately during saying "welp". Not too much before, not too much after. Just right. This is the way.
Midwest Good Bye also consistes of everyone in the house standing outside or in the door way waving good bye as you drive away with everyone waving at and back each other until you are all well out of sight.
My Mainer husband could give us midwesterners a run for our money. The amount of times I've had to break up a conversation should've made me rich. I love him but he can talk till you're blue in the face
Southern Mo here!!!! Dont spot much differnce! 'Cept we dont actually "talk with hands" like so many Europeans do. Ost of our European wore off 300 yrs ago!!!
60 from Mount Vernon, IN (SW toe). 90% of this was right for me. I think some Southern may have crept across the Ohio River and diluted this just a little.
I think it’s just a rural thing, I grew up in the way far out country part of California, and everything was measured in time, and running errands was referred to as, “going in to town”.
bonus is if you can use current weather like how average roads are in winter/during a snow storm, fog or are like some well known road construction (South Dakota) is famous for never ending road construction because of how unpredictable the weather is and only so many working days for construction.
"Bad weather brings us together" is more true than you think. Collectively bitching or applauding the weather brings a sense of 'us vs. them' every human craves but its all against nature, so no one's ever hurt!
I don't know anyone who measures distance - in distance. It's just not a useful frame of reference. Something can be a long distance - but if the route from here to there is mostly highway, freeway or express way: it won't take even half as long as it would if it was street to street stop signs and only 30 mph. Saying the mileage doesn't provide you with useful information. However - if you know the route, or have a good idea of it, you can give someone a reasonable expectation of how long it will take to get there: which is vastly more useful to them. They may be in a hurry, or low on gas, and therefore - knowing how long they should expect the trip to take allows them to make some relevant decisions like doing that task now or some other time or if they should gas up before taking the trip, etc. Conversely - you tell someone something is 3 miles, they'd probably expect that to be a pretty short trip: but not if the best way to get there is through some super clogged road construction and awful traffic - as where telling them "Yeah, that'll probably take you a good 25 minutes due to road construction" is vastly more informative.
I thought everybody communicated distance in driving time until I moved out of the Midwest. The look I received the first time I told someone, "That's about 6 1/2 hours away", was an eye opener. 😂 Around the same time someone told me a city was about 800 miles away and I was thinking, what the heck am I supposed to do with that trivia? 😂 Welp, gotta run! Watch out fer deer.
I've been told that in Chicago, despite it being in the Midwest, they have to give distances in miles because traffic varies too much to give reliable time estimates. Glad I don't have to worry about that.
That's a real issue in the Cleveland area, especially around Independence off of Brecksville Rd. I'm sure they're everywhere now since we humans tore down so much of their forest.
I'm from Texas. We have our own version of the "Midwest Goodbye" and it can be equally as long 😂 And we start it almost the same way: "Well I reckon..." 😂😂😂
I haven’t lived in MN for 45 years, but know of and have used these all my life. Probably the reason living in Florida people could tell I was FROM the Midwest.
@@wendypellett8343 It’s not exclusively a Minnesota thing, it’s a marker of Scandinavian heritage. It’s a Scandinavian thing that is used primarily in the Midwest but not exclusively, as it is used in Scandinavian communities in other states. And it’s UFF DA, yes the dictionary says oof da is an acceptable alternative, but the Wikipedia article is titled “Uff da”. I’m from the most Norwegian town in Iowa with the first Norwegian college in the US. Also my step grandfather was 100% Norwegian. I’ve been saying “uff da” my whole life.
@@sassenachdragonYes. I always thought it was just a sound many of us just naturally make, when I read in a Loraine Snelling novel about it's being like an actual Norwegian word or phrase. Which explains it's being esp. asst. w MN as MN had prob. the greatest number of Norwegian immigrant settlers of the Midwest states, although others got a lot, too. I didn't know other Scandinavian countries perhaps shared the term.. (?). I have swedish heritage although I mostly German, w some English and lil Danish as well. Born n raised in WI, not far in from St. Paul, MN tho.
0:44 At the end of every holiday gettogether my grandfather would do the mid-west shuffle in the car, inch by inch down the driveway, while my grandmother yacked on and on about every little subject.
I can literally spend three hours doing nothing at my mom's house and it never fails as I'm walking out ready to leave she will remember something she needs me to do for her. Something I could have done the whole three hours I was there.
I can relate. And after that, when I was about to get in the car it would be "how about a sandwich before you go?". Enjoy those times. Before you know it they're only memories :)
We do a Midwest good bye in the back woods of the north east too. Always starts with a “well, I better..” and it helps to have a chore to do or a meal to eat.
I love it! I never realized we do defend the weather. ☺️ With rain, I typically say it will be good for the fruit this year, it will wash all the pollen off the plants, or "We sure needed this. Remember how dry it was last year?" We are actually a pretty nice and positive bunch of people!! ❤ For our weather in Michigan, most people of a certain age will remember the "green storm" in the early 80's. That sounds something like, "Yeah, this storm is bad, but nothing like the green storm." Which is followed by each person's account of exactly where they were during the green storm. 😂😂😂 ...and the Midwest goodbye even happens over the phone!
@@hoosierpioneer Blizzard of '78. Trapped in a factory for three days because I let the boss convince me to have a guy take me to work on his snowmobile. Had to hitchhike home. Learned that lesson well.
@@hoosierpioneer I was born in March of that year. I will have to have Mom re-tell that story. It's not like my 9-month-old self would remember that event. But I do remember the ice storm that hit my area of IA pretty badly for three days in my 8th grade year. No power, so we were relying on our wood stove downstairs in the basement to heat our house. And crap-tons of blankets on our beds! 😅😅
Manitoba Canada is alot like the Midwest eh. We defend the weather, do the goodbye rounds where when you want to leave someones place you have to go to each person individually say goodbye and have a 10 minute conversation while saying goodbye, now if its a big party you're going to have to make a 2nd round of goodbyes to the first half of people who you said goodbye to lol general rule of thumb if you see someone 30 minutes sfter you said goodbye and you're still saying goodbyes you have to say goodbye again as you get closer to the door lol.
I never realized how similar Manitoba was to the US Midwest until I was stationed at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado when I was in the US military. At the annual Christmas party, I was in civilian clothes and was talking to one of my Canadian colleagues and his wife. Suddenly, his wife said, "Excuse me, are you from Winnipeg?" I replied, "No, I'm from Wisconsin and Minnesota." She responded, "You sound just like you're from Winnipeg."🤣
Manitoba is one of the flattest areas you can find Maybe Alberta, so much you Canadians joke about it that Corner Sation or Letter Kenney was made in flat part of province.
@@grindinitout1761 It's more than just the deer, donchaknow? You gotta watch out for'em deer TICKS these days. Nasty little buggers - their as big as just a pencil-width!
Oh sure, that is real nice of ya. I mean it. I tell you what, I noticed you had a tree that needed trimmed out side. If you got some time, I'd love to get up there and trim it up real good. What do you say?
😂 from IN… when we were in Oshkosh for an air show we found out you couldn’t buy beer after 9 in Winnebago County. The gas station attendant told us to go up towards Appleton 3 exits… you could have said 30 miles and we would have waited till morning. But I didn’t think about it until we got almost there.
Everyone should adopt measuring distance in time. Like it takes me 15 mins to get to work but it’s 3 miles. It could take an hour to get to the store in LA but be 5 miles. Let’s just let each other know how much time they need to allow for the drive
Born and raised in Illinois but haven't lived there in decades and thought my Midwest speak was gone but nope, still say Geez Louis and finagle. The Midwest goodbye takes so long because you end up saying goodbye to the same people multiple times.
Story. Two high school friends (from Bemidji) attended Dartmouth College (in Hanover, NH). They both took German. One was translating German into English (or rather Minnesotan) and spoke the "ruff" word, and was laughed at by the whole class. He had to ask what was wrong with his translation. The other friend later got called out for referring to the "ruts" of a tree.
G'day. A Canadian here. And I wholeheartedly agree on your southern time, compass direction, and landmarks for navigation. Us Hicks have been using it since we crossed the Atlantic.
Born and raised in MN, what's crazy is I don't like living here, but I defend the weather without even realizing it, just as he said. I hate it all, but have said every single thing. 🤣🤣
I say the weather thing a lot, especially “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity” “Midwesterners stink at accepting compliments” dang and here I thought it was because I was insecure
Holy crap, I feel this in my soul 😅 Geeze Louise has been part of my vocabulary since i could talk. And it's "jeet yet?" Then an offer of some homemade eats.❤
In iowa we just had an early spring that felt like fall. Now we are in second winter. I think we just make them up as we go because the seasons and random, never ending combinations, and unpredictable.
Regarding measuring distance in time, vs length, we do that in areas with a LOT of traffic, too. Even if it is only 10 miles away, we let the people know…it’s about 45 minutes away.
As someone from Missouri we totally judge how far things are by minutes. Also if you come here be prepared to use both your AC and Heater in the same day.
And if the weather fails as a topic of interest, you can always talk about the biting insects. There's nosee'ems in the spring, mosquitos in early summer and deer and horse flies mid into late summer. Ticks you can talk about all year round. Not because they're out there in the middle of winter but because you or a relative might have gotten the Lyme's Disease from one last season.
This is painfully accurate! I got a haircut a few weeks ago and my neighbor comes up to me, says, "Oh, your hair is so cute!" I responded with, "Oh, yeah, heh, It's alright, got it recently." Another time me and my family were on a road trip, and I asked, "How far is it till we get there?" my dad replied, "Oh, about 30 minutes." 😅
Traveling from San Diego's Pacific Coast to the Southern Texas Gulf Coast, we had lots of humorous moments at hotels, gas stations, restaurants, etc etc. The billboards along the road were hilarious, such as "home insurance plans more flexible than a flour tortilla".
Here in Seattle there is no goodbye ritual, you’re lucky to even get a goodbye. Heck, be grateful they showed up at all, and didn’t send a text bailing, 3 minutes before they were supposed to be there. Also, I’m from Northern California (aka, the good half), and we only measured in time. I”m 38 yrs old and I can’t tell you how many miles it is from my hometown to The City, but I can tell you it is exactly 3.5 hours. It’s a 15 min drive “in to town” from the house I grew up in, and it’s 45 min “inland” from the ocean.
I'm from IA, and by all that is holy, I have never understood the "shorts with hoodie in the winter" thing. I mean, is Mother Nature a joke to my fellow Iowans??? 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
A few days ago, I was in Tennessee and one day we went fishing. Our guide was from North Carolina and as we finished up we actually did a midwestern goodbye. We shook hands, said goodbye, and as we started getting in the car we stood outside talking with the doors open for like 15 minutes. Good time.
Yes, I agree on the mileage vs the time. If you drive through Chicagoland Traffic like we do many times to get to Michigan (I'm a native Michigander) you can't say how many miles. We always say how much time and then say, "depending on the time of year". Construction around Chicagoland can be a nightmare and can easily add another hour to your trip. I mean Geez Louise the traffic can be a nightmare!
😂Iowa native. Lived here all my life and married a native Iowa farmer. Here are some more: Oh my gosh! He is going to hell in a hand basket! Jeepers creepers. By golly. Holy moly! What in the dickens! My word! My land! My Lord! What the heck? Golly! I'll be darned. Darn it! My gosh, really? You've gotta be kidding me! For the love of Pete. Oh for Pete's sake. Wowsa! Them there....Boy oh boy. Hey there. So how did he pass? Fart cakes. When the cows come home. Knee high by the 4th of July (corn). Knee high to a grasshopper. Love him to death. Glory be! You gotta be kidding me! Yep! Yep! Yep! Sure thing. Heavens to Betsy. Jimmy rig or jury rig or jerry rig!
Distance is measured by time in New England too. Everything may be closer than the Midwest but depending on the time of day, there are all those people in the way.
We used to have the Air Force Code: Huh? Oh. Being from Minnesota when I went into the USAF I get this whole thing. There was a book "How to speak Minnesotan" I'm on a flight from Salt Lake City to Boise and this older couple sit in the seats next to me. They're probably early 70's. The guy starts messing with the tray table and starts his in conversation with his wife by saying "Yah knoh, a guy could..." Having just read that book and that being a saying in the book, I asked if they were from Minnesota. "Yah! Howdja knoh?" "We just flew in frum da Cities." I asked if they were from Northwest Minnesota and he said "Yup. Teef River Falss. Howdja kno that?" Just a guess I said. I had all I could do to not burst out laughing.
Welp, you just about nailed 'er with that video, bud! Lot's of Midwestern folks say and do that stuff. Have we discussed the mysterious origins of saying "warsh" instead of "wash" yet? I still haven't figured that one out! Welp, I better skeedaddle. Catch you next time!
I grew up in NJ and we always gave directions in time because, traffic. I moved to Minnesota about 5 years ago and have seen most of these. One last thing is Jeet is used in the south too just pronounced slightly different.
'Jeet' is pretty universal, we do use that one here in the northeast. It's often followed by "wad'jeet?" which is asked to find out what you have eaten.
Distance in time is the only way that the NY metro areas can discuss because 20 miles can take 3 hours. I discussed while bartending serving a guy from Texas who came to the realize what he thought was a weird quirk was a hard reality once he drove somewhere
The weather and the getting out the door can double for Southern as well. That dang Derek Bieri is making oofda cat h on everywhere else as well. 😂 He's a hard guy to not like.
This is so accurate, especially the distance and goodbyes. Im from the Midwest, and i have NEVER heard someone tell me the actual distance in miles. And fir the goodbyes, when i was a kid my parents did this all the time, i would be at a family friends house and my dad would say that we were leaving in a couple of minutes and then i would proceed to go downstairs watch lord of the rings come back upstairs to were he was wait a half hour walk out to the car and wait another 10 minutes befor we actually left.
this is like listening to my dad, he always did the whole whelp, I suppose...followed by the classic, hit the road, if we were heading back home. The slap the leg and looking down...perfect. thanks, you made my day with that memory 😂
As a proud Appalachian, when we say goodbye it's a formula of an extended word + a compliment + a promise. "Yeeaahhhh.... listen, I hate to part good company, but I gotta go. I promise to stop over next week though and we can have some tea then!"
I’m from Iowa and yeah, that damn wind is what makes the winters suck.😂 However, when I do my Midwestern goodbye, I don’t inch towards the door. I’m gone. Unless the person keeps talking and I’m to polite to walk away.😅
welp being from Illinois but almost 7 hours south of lake michigan... we round here get the best of both the south and the midwest. im closest to paducah kentucky. and we use land marks and nesw and time as directions. example guys asks how to get to FS.... Welp you go bout 5 minutes north here til you see that great big ok tree youll turn right head down that road about a mile then the 1st cross roads turn back south head on down there for a few minutes youll see them big silos up there. when you see them turn in the 1st driveway the 2nd drive is semi trucks only. you see them packers play? (as most of us hate the bears and cubs) Ya that was some good football right there. guess they lost the season tho them cards are pre gameing down at STL may wanna swing out and check em out.
In New England when it's raining we say, at least it's not snowing. Don't know anyone that tells distance in miles. I'd ask my parents how far it is to my aunt and uncle's house and they'd say, about an hour and a half.
On the distance, now that I am in a big city, I've learned to add the phrase "depends on traffic" before I tell someone how far somewhere is. "From Denver to Castle Rock? Depends on the traffic, but it's between 30 and 45 minutes." Also, you forgot part three of the hot weather report: "Man, it's a hot one." "It's not the heat, it's the humidity." "Yeah, but it's good for the corn."
I’m thinkin that Maine should be a honorary member of the Midwest because just about everything that he’s saying it true for the people of Maine coming from a Mainer myself
Time vs. distance works even better for city travel. Sure, it might only be a few miles away...but it's going to take you 3 hours to get there during daylight when everyone else is on the road too.
