According to Jeff Foxworthy you might live in, or hail from, Missouri if ...
• someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don't even work there.
• you've worn shorts and a jacket at the same time.
• you know several people who have hit a deer more than once.
• you have switched from 'heat' to 'A/C' and back again in the same day.
• driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
• you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both doors unlocked.
• you carry jumpers in your car and your wife knows how to use them.
• everyone in your family has been on a "float trip".
• "Vacation" means driving to Silver Dollar City, Worlds of Fun or Six Flags.
• you ever rode a school bus over an hour each way.
• you had school classes canceled because of cold.
• you think “deer season” is a national holiday.
• "Down South" means Arkansas and you know where Idiots Out Wandering Around are located.
• you had school classes canceled because of heat.
• you can drive 75 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching.
• you know that Harry S. Truman, Walt Disney, George Washington Carver and Mark Twain are all from Missouri.
• you know what "Home of Throwed Rolls" means!
• you know what’s supposed to be “knee-high by the Fourth of July.”
• you pronounce Missouri with an “ah” at the end.
• you’ve ever said (or heard) “It’s not the heat, it’s the humidity.”
• you’ve seen people wear bib overalls to funerals.
• your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor.
• you've seen farmers stop work and remove their hat as a funeral passes by.
If you actually understand more than a few of these you definitely do live, or have lived, in Missouri! Or Kansas! :)
Union Station opened in 1914, serving Kansas City, Missouri, and the surrounding area. During World War II my father-in-law was one of the thousands of soldiers passing through the station. After the war patronage declined. The station was closed in 1985. Then in 1996, a public/private partnership began funding Union Station's $250 million restoration. The station reopened in 1999 housing museums and other public attractions. In 2002, Union Station saw its return as a train station. Amtrak began providing public transportation services and has since become Missouri's second-busiest train station. Today the station boasts restaurants, theaters, museum exhibits, and other interesting attractions.
Pronounced Oh-lay-tha, this city was the first one that Ellen, our dog Max (pictured) and I lived in Kansas. I was 27 when we bought our first house there. Back then this KC suburb had a population of about 25,000. It is about 125,000 today and is the fourth largest in both Kansas and in the KC metroplex. I lived there for eight years and began to lay down my KC roots. My kids were born in there and would eventually finish their schooling there. Olathe has a good school system and is a great family community.
"Everyday I count the blessings that have been bestowed upon my family and me. Each day I am thankful that I was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs and think of all the people who have supported the team, our family’s foundation, and me. This community is like no other when it comes to support. Fourteen years sure fly by when you get to do what you love. The love for the game never decreased but, as the years passed, the physical requirements of the game became harder to fulfill each and every day. If it was up to me I would play football forever but, as we all know, that is unrealistic." -Will Shields 
I was a season ticket holder in the late 90s and absolutely loved the winning atmosphere in Arrowhead Stadium back then - even though we never really made it far in the playoffs (when we got there). Those winning days gave way to the mediocre ones of the past ten years. Last year the team hit an all-time low when they lost fourteen of their sixteen games.
• you know several people who have hit a deer more than once.
