Stolen From Jamie, Modified By Me!
You Know You're From Michigan When...
You define summer as three months of bad sledding.
You can identify an Ohio accent.
You know how to play (and pronounce) Euchre.
The Big Mac is something that you drive across.
You believe that "down south" means Toledo.
You bake with soda and drink pop.
You drive 75 on the highway and you pass on the right.
Your Little League baseball game was snowed out.
You learned how to drive a boat before you learned how to ride a bike.
You know how to pronounce "Mackinac".
The word "thumb" has a geographical rather than an anatomical significance.
You have experienced frostbite and sunburn in the same week.
You expect Vernor's when you order ginger ale.
You know that Kalamazoo not only exists, but that it isn't far from Hell.
Your favorite holidays are Christmas, Thanksgiving, the opening of deer season and Devil's Night.
At least one person in your family disowns you for the week of the Michigan/Michigan State football game.
Half the change in your pocket is Canadian, eh.
You show people where you grew up by pointing to a spot on your left hand.
Your car rusts out before you need the brakes done
Half the people you know say they are from Detroit... yet you don't personally know anyone who actually lives in Detroit
"Up North" means north of Clare.
You know what a pastie is.
You occasionally cheer "Go Lions- and take the Tigers with you."
Snow tires come standard on all your cars.
At least 25% of your relatives work for the auto industry.
Octopus and hockey go together as naturally as hot dogs and baseball.
You know when it has rained because of the smell of worms.
You never watch the Weather Channel - you can just assume they're wrong.
The snowmen you make in your front yard actually freeze. Solid.
The snow freezes so hard that you can actually walk across it and not break it or leave any marks.
All your shoes are called "tennis shoes", even though no one here plays tennis anyway.
Half your friends have a perfect sledding hill right in their own backyard.
You Know You're From Flint When...
You think that traffic on Linden Road is too heavy
You know what a coney is
Going away to college is a choice between Mott and U of M Flint
Saginaw is "Up North"
Your idea of culture is The Whiting Auditorium
A vast majority of your family income came from "THE SHOP" (or "The Restaurant")
You know Mt Holly has "good powder"
You spent the day after Prom at Cedar Point