Life in Michigan...

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:21 pm

If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through

18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim

by, you might live in Michigan

If you're proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights

each year because Pelston is the coldest spot in the nation, you might

live in Michigan

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March,

you might live in Michigan

If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the

year, you might live in Michigan.

If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work

there, you might live in Michigan

If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of

his forehead, you might live in Michigan

If you have worn shorts and a coat at the same time, you might live

in Michigan

If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might

live in Michigan

If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who

dialed a wrong number, you might live in Michigan

You know you're a true MICHIGANDER when.............

1. "Vacation" means going up north on I-75.

2. You measure distance in hours

3. You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.

4. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.

5. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging

blizzard,without flinching.

6. You see people wearing camouflage at social events

(including weddings).

7. You install security lights on your house and garage and

leave both unlocked.

8. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend

knows how to use them.

9. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a

snowsuit.

10. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are

filled with snow.

11. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter

and road construction.

12. You can identify a southern or eastern accent.

13. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer

next to your blue spruce.

14. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.

15. Down South to you means Ohio

16. A brat is something you eat.

17. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole

shed.

18. You go out to fish fry every Friday.

19. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.

20. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.

21. You find 0 degrees "a little chilly."

22. You drink pop and bake with soda.

23. Your doctor tells you to drink Vernors and you know it's

not medicine.

24. You know what a yooper is.

25. You think owning a Honda is Un American.

26. You know that UP is a place not a direction

27. You know it's possible to live in a thumb.

28. You understand that when visiting Detroit, the best thing to

wear is a kevlar vest.

29. You actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to

all your Michigan friends

Der Wulf · Post by **Der Wulf** » Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:28 pm

Memories,-------terrific

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 2:17 am

So you are not all cowboys then?

Bothwell · Post by **Bothwell** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 2:49 am

I had a week in Detroit a few years ago and I loved it, the 8 mile was an education to this repressed Englishman!!!

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 11:17 am

Nice list!

What do Michganders think of Minnesotans? Do you fight over who as the worse weather or biggest bugs? :-=)

Erinna1112 · Post by **Erinna1112** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 11:30 am

Tombstone wrote: Nice list!

What do Michganders think of Minnesotans? Do you fight over who as the worse weather or biggest bugs? :-=)
Yep.

The mosquitoes in Michigan are required to have landing lights.

If you've ever gotten frostbite and sunburn in the same week, you're a Michigander.

Coast-to-coast is Port Huron to Muskegon.

You think alkaline batteries were named for a Tiger outfielder.

When someone asks you where you live, you point to a spot in the palm of your right hand.

Not only do you know what a "yooper" is, but you know what a "Troll" and a "fudgie" are, too (for non-Michiganians....a "troll" is someone who lives in the northern part of the Lower Peninsula...you know, under the bridge. :wah: A "fudgie" is a downstater, named for the tourists who come from Detroit to Mackinaw to buy the world-famous fudge.).

Der Wulf · Post by **Der Wulf** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 1:07 pm

How about the noseeums, assups, and swamp snipes. You bikers must have had the pleasure of eating a june bug at high speed. Any trout fisherman or motorist in the boonies, has to love the caddis hatch. ahh memories

BabyRider · Post by **BabyRider** » Wed Jan 26, 2005 1:31 pm

Eating a June bug at high speeds? Been there, done that! Yuck!! And dam but that HURTS!!