Drinking water in white cans donated by Anheuser-Busch

The local equivalent of “the check is in the mail”

A brown strip of skin stretching from where rubber gloves end to where T shirts begin

Interminable city council meetings. “Got to go, I’m late for Buns of Steel.”

Grand Forks’s version of survivor guilt

Spacing out. “Sorry, I was having a flood moment.”

Source: Toby Baker, Grand Forks