The Plains of Maine
I’m from Maine, but I go to college in Worcester, Mass. I don’t live in the middle of nowhere, my hometown is actually a reasonable sized city (yes it’s tiny compared to Boston or New York City, but it’s a city nonetheless).
One day when I was having lunch with a couple of my friends, someone asked what everyone would do if they were stuck on an island in the middle of a frozen lake. I sarcastically replied that I knew how to make ice skates, so I would just skate to shore.
However, my friends mostly believed that and asked how I knew how to make ice skates. Without missing a beat I responded that to graduate high school in Maine, you have to pass a wilderness survival class.
And for the better part of an hour my friends all believed that I knew how to craft a bow and arrow, ice skates, usable shelters and various other things, simply because I was from Maine and those are the things you have to know when you live in Maine. Story credit: Reddit / frodofro13