What the Heck for a Meme

[mmerriam]

I was raised primarily in Oklahoma by Michigan and Oklahoma parents and Grandparents, and have lived in Minnesota since 1999.

1. A body of water, smaller than a river, contained within relatively narrow banks.
Creek

2. What the thing you push around the grocery store is called.
Cart

3. A metal container to carry a meal in.
Lunchbox

4. The thing that you cook bacon and eggs in.
Frying Pan

5. The piece of furniture that seats three people.
Couch

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.
Soda, though as a former waiter I am multilingual about this and you can call it soda, pop, soda pop, soda water, cola (even if it is not) or in the case of my time in Texas, coke, which usually meant Dr. Pepper, as in a customer looking at me and saying, "I'll have coke to drink: Do you have Dr. Pepper?"

9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.
Pancakes, though my Grandfather always called them flapjacks

10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.
Hoagie, though in Oklahoma it was mostly called a Po-boy, or sometimes a Sub.

11. The piece of clothing worn by men at the beach.
Swim Trunks

12. Shoes worn for sports.
Sneakers

13. Putting a room in order.
Straightening the room.

14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.
Firefly

15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.
Rolly-polly

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.
See-saw

17. How do you eat your pizza?
By hand

18. What's it called when private citizens put up signs and sell their used stuff?
Garage or yard sale

19. What's the evening meal?
Supper, unless you have guests and it's more formal, then it is Dinner

20. The thing under a house where the furnace and perhaps a rec room are?
Basement

21. What do you call the thing that you can get water out of to drink in public places?
Fountain

and now I shall write