How do you know when you are in the county

[MattNQ]

The number of fat white aerials on the mandatory bundy rum stickered ute is a sign of a young man’s social status
Driving at night is like driving through a zoo with all the fences down
The only heavy metal you can hear is the ancient D3 dozer they use to do the driveway & fencelines.
Since Country Target moved in, every kid in town wears the same clothes.
You wake up to the sound of the local dogs chasing the local wild horses around your accommodation...more than once
The airport terminal is a small tin shed that some bloke unlocks 10 minutes before the plane lands
Forget the waitress bringing out a dessert tray to browse - the pub's desert menu is tinned fuit & homebrand vanilla icecream.
There is a camel tied up outside your donger behind the pub.
You offer a total stranger a lift for a 6 hour drive back south to The Isa ...and agree to play his one and only Slim Dusty cassette.
You can't answer most of the questions when filling out your work vehicle accident report ...eg.what is the nearest cross street   ,
Flies can be counted as part of your protein intake.

You are not dodging spandex-clad Tour-de-france wannabee cyclists on $10k bikes that are too special to use the  bike lane like every other rider, rocketing along to their next Latte stop.

And the best part....there is not a Prius to be seen!

[Pipeliner]

You take your prim Welsh mother-in-law into the pub for a refreshing drink and they give her a stubby in a polystyrene cooler.  Then a local comes in wearing a brand new Akubra which is promptly whipped off his head, stomped on, kicked around the floor, has beer poured over it, and is finally handed back to him with the comment 'Now it looks like a hat!'.

The look on MIL's face was priceless!  Suffice to say that was the one and only time they came out to visit.

[Brumbypt]

When u go to your auto eleccy to work on ya winch all day, you do most of the work while he supervises and makes fun of you, you use his tools and bits, you also help other customers that come in, answer his phone and stack firewood etc for the wife. Move his car and trailer out of the way so the customer we could put his car  there..

We then stole a part of my customers car (mates car really that i still have and am still working on) ( car aerial mount) and fitted it to the auto elleccys car for his new uhf radio..


And after all that, i got the winch working with its new switch..

And he didnt charge me..

Now thats country customer service..

Now tomorrow i will need to find a few muscles and put the winch back on the bull bar?

[bobnrob]

The number of fat white aerials on the mandatory bundy rum stickered ute is a sign of a young man’s social status

None living 'round here, but I do see a few in western sydney, and heaps up & down the main drag of goulburn  lol

[Brumbypt]

When all houses have water tanks, and not only that, the water tanks have gutters to also collect their own water..


Tapa Tapa talk is not as good as using safari.

[Garfish]

When I was a kid our neighbours went to England for 3 months ... didn't lock their door, 'cause it didn't have a lock!

We got a lock on our door when I was 18,  it was unfair it meant I had to take a key with me and ty and use a lock when coming home early in the morning, none of my brothers and sisters had to, just being picked on cos I'm the you get,

You know your in the country when everyone sees happier

And the water in the water tanks can be used or something other than toilets and washing machines..
To conserve water you go stand under the bore.
 You get looked at if you are wearing a matching clothes

[Tjupurula]

When you are sitting on your sons front porch, and because of medication (my excuse and I am sticking to it) quite loudly pass wind.  Then the neighbour, some 30 metres away, calls out "Chuck a plug in it".  Sound carries in the bush on a quiet night obviously.
Tjupurula