This is long. Is that a good thing?
I even shortened it! I also left notes on some.
You might be a Michigander ...
* My own*
If you know the Zilwaukee bridge isn't held together with gum.
http://www.saginawconspiracy.com/chewinggum.htm--
... if you define Summer as three months of bad sledding.
... if snow tires come standard on all your cars.
... if at least 50% of your relatives work for the auto industry. <--One of my uncles worked at Ford
... if owning a Japanese car was a hanging offense in your home town. <--They should be driving Ford.
... if you learned to pilot a boat before the training wheels were off your bike. <-- I failed my boating test in the 6th grade, (like 2 answers wrong, not that I would ever drive a boat anyway
) and I learned how to ride a bike without training wheels when I was little.
... if you point at the palm of your right hand when telling people where you grew up.
... if "Down South" to you means Toledo.
... if you refer to your relatives in southern Michigan as "trolls". <-- I am a troll.
... if a Big Mac is something you can drive across.
... if you have no problem spelling Mackinac Island.
... if you have as many Canadian coins in your pockets as American ones. <--Tends to happen when you use a vending machine.
... if you bake with "soda" and drink "pop".
... if you can name all 5 of the Great Lakes, and point to their locations around your left and right hands.
... if you had Tornado Drills in elementary school. <--You have to live in Michigan for that? And yes, I did.
... if you know all the words to Gordon Lightfoot's classic ballad, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" <--Maybe not by heart, but I had that song stuck in my head when I went to the shipwreck museum. I swear they know no other song! I've also seen the bell, does that count? Song--> h
ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vST6hVRj2A... if you have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
... if you've taken your kids trick-or-treating in a blizzard. <-- It's normally cold, windy and raining.
... if driving is better in the winter because the potholes get filled with snow.
... if the local paper covers national and international headlines on l/4 page, but requires 6 pages for sports. <--I HATE sports! Don't be stereotypical!
... if your snow blower gets stuck on the roof. <--The snow killed ours.
... if you find -20F a little chilly. <--Yup, so true!
... if the trunk of your car doubles as a deep freezer. <--What if you have a van?
... if shoveling the driveway constitutes a great upper body workout.
... if you know the 4 seasons: Winter, Still Winter, Almost Winter, and Construction. <-- They never finish the construction!
... if you instinctively walk like a penquin for five months out of the year.
... if you have worn shorts and a coat at the same time. <-- It once, snowed, rained, stormed, sleeted, hailed, all in one day.
... if "vacation" means going up north on I-75.
... if you often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
... if you can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.
... if down South to you means Ohio.
... if a brat is something you eat.
... if your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole barn.
... if your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
... if you know what a Yooper is.
... if you know that UP is a place, not a direction.
... if you know it's possible to live in a thumb.
