You Know You’re From Michigan If …

1. You consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice then sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by.
2. Your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March.
3. You have worn shorts and a coat at the same time.
4. Your town has an equal number of bars and churches.
5. 'Vacation' means going up north on I-75.
6. You measure distance in hours.
7. You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.
8. You often switch from 'heat' to 'A/C' in the same day.
9. You can drive 55 mph through a foot of snow, during a raging blizzard, without flinching.
10. You see people wearing camouflage at social events (including weddings).
11. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
12. You carry jumper cables in your car and your wife knows how to use them.
13. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
14. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
15. You know the 4 seasons as: almost winter, winter, almost spring, and road construction.
16. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your blue spruce and birch.
17. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.
18. Down south means Ohio.
19. A brat is something you eat.
20. You go out to a fish fry every Friday.
21. Your 4th of July picnic was once moved indoors due to frost.
22. You have more miles on your snowmobile than your car.
23. You find 0 degrees 'just a little chilly.'
24. You drink pop and bake with soda.
25. Your doctor tells you to drink Vernors and you know it's not medicine.
26. You can actually drink Vernors without coughing.
27. You know what a Yooper is.
28. You know that UP is a place, not a direction.
29. You know it's possible to live in a thumb.
30. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole barn.