Where did you grow up: California

WHAT DO YOU CALL:

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

Lake

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

Shopping cart

3. A metal container to carry a meal in.

Lunch box.

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

Frying fan

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

9. A flat, round breakfast food served with syrup.

Pancakes

10. A long sandwich designed to be a whole meal in itself.

Sub.

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

Swim trunks

12. Shoes worn for sports.

Tennis shoes

13. Putting a room in order.

Tidying up

14. A flying insect that glows in the dark.

Firefly

15. The little insect that curls up into a ball.

I used to give them rides on my Big Wheel but I'm drawing a blank.

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.

Seesaw

17. How do you eat your pizza?

Depends on the pizza

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

Garage sale

19. What's the evening meal?

Dinner

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

Basement. (It's where I'm living.)

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

Drinking fountain