You Might Be From Michigan If...

You might be from Michigan.......

• If you define Summer as three months of bad sledding...
• If your definition of a small town is one that doesn't have a lake...
• If your family breaks into violence during the UofM-MSU game. (any sport)
• If snow tires came standard on all your cars....
• If at least 50% of your relatives work for the auto industry...
• If you have ever gotten frostbitten and sunburned in the same week...
• If you can identify an Ohio accent...
• If owning a Japanese car was a hanging offense in your home town...
• If you learned to pilot a boat before the training wheels came off your bike...
• If you think Alkaline batteries were named after a Tiger outfielder...
• If you point at the palm of your right hand when telling people where you grew up...
• 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 "Down South" to you means Toledo...
• If you have any idea who Bob Ufer was...
• If octopus and hockey go together as logically as hot dogs and baseball...
• If travelling coast to coast means going from Port Huron to Muskegon...
• 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 Caesar's and Hungry Howie's...
• If the Big Mac is something you can drive across...
• If you have no problem spelling Mackinac Island...
• If had to get a passport to travel to Ohio...
• If you have as many Canadian coins in your pocket as American coins...
• If you kids' baseball and softball games have ever been snowed out...
• If the trees in your backyard have spigots...
• If you know that a place called Kalamazoo actually exists...
• If you bake with "soda" and drink "pop"...
• If you know what a pastie is...
• If you drive 70 on the highway and always pass on the right...
• 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 Vernor's...
• If you know how to play Euchre...

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