You know you might from Michigan or been here to long.....
If you think of summer as three months of bad sledding.
If think Alkaline batteries were named after a Tiger outfielder.
If you can identify an Ohio accent.
If you've debated "Michiganian" or "Michigander"
If your idea of a seven course meal is a six pack of Strohs and a bucket of smelt.
If owning a Japanese car is a hanging offense in your hometown,
If you know someone from Porch Yearn.(a.k.a. Port Huron)
If half the people you know say that they are from Detroit yet you don't personally know anyone who actually lives in Detroit.
If you know how to play euchre
If the Big Mac is something you drive across.
If you believe "Down South" refers to Toledo Toledo.
If you drive 85 on the highway and always pass on the right.
If your kids little league baseball game has ever been snowed out.
If you know what a pastie is.
If you learned to drive a boat before you learned to ride a bicycle.
If you know that Mackinac rhymes with Mackinaw.
If you occasionally cheer "Go Lions - and take the Tigers with you."
If the word thumb brings to mind a geographical rather than anatomical definition.
If you you've ever experienced frost bite and sunburn in the same week.
If you have any idea who Bob Ulfer was.
If you expect to get Vernor's when you order ginger ale.
If you know that Kalamazoo not only actually exists, but isn't to far from Hell.
If your favorite holidays are Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the opening day of deer season.
If your snowmobile and fishing boat have Chevy block engines.
If either your mother or your father disowns you for the week of the Michigan-Michigan State game.
If your year has two seasons - winter and construction.
If you know what a millage is.
If travelling coast to coast means going from Port Huron to Muskegon.
If the change in your pocket is half Canadian.
If your definiation of a small town is one that doesn't have a lake
If your family breaks into violence during the UM - MSU game (any sport)
If snow tires came standard on all your tires
If at least 50% of your relatives work for the auto industry
If you don't understand what the big deal about Chicago is
If someone asks you if you've ever been to Europe, and you answer, "No, but I've been to Ann Arbor."
If octopus and hockey go together as logically as hotdogs and baseball
If you refer to your relatives in southern Michigan as "trolls" or "lopers"
If the "Big Three" can mean either Ford, Chrysler, and GM, or Dominos, Little Ceaser's, and Hungry Howie's
If traveling coast to coast means going from Port Huron to Muskegon
If you have no problem spelling Mackinac Island
If you have to get a passport to travel to Ohio
If the trees in your backyard have spigots
If you bake with "soda" and drink "pop"
If your favorite Hockey team's mascot is an octopus
If you have a favorite Hockey team
If you don't have a coughing fit from one sip of Vernors
If you point at the palm of your right hand when explaining where you grew up.
