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mpoetess .
Age: 19
Where did you grow up?
Coal Valley, Illinois. Very small village outside of the Quad Cities, on the Mississippi River.
What do I call...
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks?
Creek or stream
2. What's the thing you push around the grocery store?
Shopping cart.
3. A metal container to carry a meal in?
Lunch box.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in?
Frying pan
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people?
Loveseat.
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof?
Gutter.
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening?
Porch.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages?
I say soda, the locals say pop
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 trunks shorts
12. Shoes worn for sports?
Tennis shoes.
13. Putting a room in order?
Cleaning. Or picking up.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark?
Lightning bugs.
15. The little insect (arthropod) that curls up into a ball?
Pill bugs/Rollie Pollies
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.
17. How do you eat your pizza?
Um, pointy first?
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Garage sale or yard sale.
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner or supper.
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Basement.
Bonus #21 that I'm adding:
Place where you. Er. You know. Use the euphemism:
Bathroom in a home. Restroom in a public place.
mpoetess .Age: 19
Where did you grow up?
Coal Valley, Illinois. Very small village outside of the Quad Cities, on the Mississippi River.
What do I call...
1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks?
Creek or stream
2. What's the thing you push around the grocery store?
Shopping cart.
3. A metal container to carry a meal in?
Lunch box.
4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in?
Frying pan
5. The piece of furniture that seats three people?
Loveseat.
6. The device on the outside of the house that carries rain off the roof?
Gutter.
7. The covered area outside a house where people sit in the evening?
Porch.
8. Carbonated, sweetened, non-alcoholic beverages?
I say soda, the locals say pop
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 trunks shorts
12. Shoes worn for sports?
Tennis shoes.
13. Putting a room in order?
Cleaning. Or picking up.
14. A flying insect that glows in the dark?
Lightning bugs.
15. The little insect (arthropod) that curls up into a ball?
Pill bugs/Rollie Pollies
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.
17. How do you eat your pizza?
Um, pointy first?
18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Garage sale or yard sale.
19. What's the evening meal?
Dinner or supper.
20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Basement.
Bonus #21 that I'm adding:
Place where you. Er. You know. Use the euphemism:
Bathroom in a home. Restroom in a public place.
