Every True Arkansan Has Had These 15 Bizarre Experiences At Least Once

Let’s not say Arkansas is weird. Let’s just say it’s unique. To people from other states, however, Arkansas is extra unique. Here is a list of fifteen things that people from other states might not understand, but that have definitely happened to you if you’ve been an Arkansan for very long. These events may seem commonplace to us, but the rest of the country would be scratching their heads over most of them.

1. You’ve seen your community bounce back and pull together after heartbreaking tragedy.

After the recent death of Corporal Bill Cooper of the Sebastian County Sheriff’s Department, amazing things happened in Fort Smith and its surrounding area. The community, full of love, mourned with local law enforcement. Folks held events to benefit local officers, left flowers and cards in front of the Sebastian County Sheriff’s Department, and came out in force for his heartbreaking funeral.

2. You’ve watched so many storms from your front porch you sometimes wonder how you haven’t been sucked into the sky or struck by lightning yet.

3. You’ve had personal experience with the term “if the creek don’t rise.”

It means you might not make it off your property.

4. You’ve given or received help to or from people you’ve never met.

Arkansans are some of the most generous people in the United States.

5. You’ve gone out your front door and experienced some of the most incredibly scenic land in the world.

6. Your whole day has been cancelled because of a little bit of snow.

Look, we’ve got the infrastructure to deal with the heat those Yankees whine about, but we’ve got snow idea about real winter.

7. You’ve acted like that little bit of snow was the best thing that ever happened.

8. You’ve had to explain to someone how to call the hogs.

9. You’ve worn a coat, a rain jacket, and shorts all in the same week.

Pictured above: next week's forecast.

10. You’ve hung your head when your glorious home state had a major fail.

11. You’ve had to explain to folks from other states that yes, Arkansans wear shoes, and no, we don’t all live in trailer parks.

Our houses are just as nice as your houses.

12. You’ve thrown serious shade at out-of-towners who don’t understand proper Arkansas etiquette.

13. You’ve had to explain an idiom to someone who isn’t from around here.

"I said she’s more nervous than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs, what else could that possibly mean, Tom?"

14. You’ve had to explain to people that Arkansas is a state located in the American South, and people actually live there.

15. You’ve rolled your eyes at someone who called Arkansas Alabama’s understudy or said something else to cast aspersions upon your home state’s character, and then you’ve looked at them with worry because clearly Arkansas is the best state and this dummy, bless his heart, doesn’t have the brains God gave a goose.

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