Rules for entering Alberta

Scribbled down on March 21st, 2007 by she
Posted in Lighter Side

Got this via email from my good friend Wendy:

  1. Pull your droopy pants up. You look like an idiot.
  2. Let’s get this straight, it’s called a gravel road. I drive a pickup truck because I need to. No matter how slow you drive, you’re going to get dust on your Lexus. Drive it or get out of the way.
  3. They are pigs, cattle and oil wells. That’s what they smell like to you. They smell like money to us. Get over it. Don’t like it? No. 2 goes south and north. No. 1 goes east and west. Pick one.
  4. So, you drive a sixty-thousand dollar car. We’re real impressed. We have a quarter-million dollar combine that we drive three weeks a year.
  5. So every person in a pickup waves. It’s called being friendly. Try to understand the concept.
  6. We started hunting and fishing when we were nine years old. Yeah, we saw “Bambi” too. We got over it.
  7. If a cell phone rings when ducks are coming in, we shoot it out of your hand. You better hope you don’t have it up to your ear at the time.
  8. Yeah, we eat beef and pork. You want sushi and caviar? It’s available at the corner bait shop.
  9. The “Opener” refers to the first day of deer season. It’s a religious holiday held the closest Saturday to the first of November.
  10. We open doors for women. This applies to everyone regardless of age.
  11. No, there’s no “Vegetarian Special” on the menu. Order steak. Order it rare. Or, you can order the Chef’s Salad and pick off the two pounds of ham and turkey.
  12. When we set a table there are three main dishes; meats, vegetables and breads. We use three spices; salt, pepper and ketchup.
  13. You bring “Coke” into my house it better be brown, wet, served Over ice and plenty of it! You bring “Hooch” into my house it better have four legs, a tail and have a nose for partridge, duck or pheasant. You Bring “Mary Jane” to my house she better be cute, know how to shoot, drive a truck and have long hair.
  14. Yeah, we have golf courses. Don’t hit in the water hazards – it spooks the fish.
  15. Colleges? Try Olds College. They come outta there with an education and a love for God and country, and they still wave at passing pickup trucks when they come home for the holidays.
  16. We have more Air Force and Army than any other Province, so, “Don’t Mess with Alberta”.
  17. Our military is only used as a backup. Per capita, each man, woman and child owns at least two firearms and knows how to use them.
  18. Also, remember that Ralph once said, Alberta can make it without Canada, but Canada can’t make it without Alberta.

Who says we are rednecks??? We were under the impression everyone else was just backwards!

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9 Responses to “Rules for entering Alberta”

  1. Very good rules…I’d adhere to ’em.

  2. Are you sure y’all aren’t North Texas?

  3. Yeah, they call us Texas North. Edmonton is often called Houston North – ‘cept we have fewer restaurants.

  4. ei! how youove been lately??

  5. Shamed Albertan Says:

    If these were the rules for entering Alberta I would gladly leave. Who would want to live in such an intolerant place!

    Fortunately, Edmonton, where I reside, tends to have the least rednecks per capita in all of Alberta. Thank God.

  6. Shamed Albertan Says:

    I am so ashamed to call my self an Albertan…..you revel in your unsophistication….its so lame

  7. Apparently someone hasn’t heard of a joke.

    As a transparent maritimer living in Edmonton, I do find it funny that you’d take this seriously as opposed to accepting this for what it was – an example of self-depreciating humour…

  8. I should also mention that – as the first line indicates – this is the content of an email I received, and not something I actually drafted myself. Don’t want to be taking credit for someone else’s work.

  9. Funny, this e-mail came to me (also an Edmonton resident) from several other Albertans. The first time was from a resident of the bustling town of Tofield (just east of Edmonton). I have lived in Edmonton 40+ years and have found just as many ‘rednecks’ in Lethbridge, Calgary, Grande Prairie and High Level as there is here.

    Lighten up. It is just a joke.

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