If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through 18 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might live in Michigan
If you’re proud that your region makes the national news 96 nights each year because Pellston is the coldest spot in the nation, you might live in Michigan.
If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you might live in Michigan .
If you instinctively walk like a penguin for five months out of the year, you might live in Michigan.
If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don’t work there, you might live in Michigan.
If your dad’s suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead, you might live in Michigan.
If you have worn shorts and a coat at the same time, you might live in Michigan.
If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in Michigan .
If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you might live in Michigan
Part 2 – You know you’re a true MICHIGANIAN when…………
1. “Vacation” means going up north on I- 75.
2. You measure distance in hours.
3. You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.
4. You often switch from “heat” to “A/C” in the same day.
5. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.
6. You see people wearing camouflage at social events (including weddings).
7. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
8. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use them.
9. You design your kid’s Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
10. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
11. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction.
12. You can identify a southern or eastern accent.
13. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your blue spruce.
14. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.
15. Down South to you means Ohio
16 A brat is something you eat.
17. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole barn.
18. You go out to fish fry every Friday.
19. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
20. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
21. You find 0 degrees “a little chilly.”
22. You drink pop and bake with soda.
23. Your doctor tells you to drink Vernors and you know it’s not medicine.
24. You know what a Yooper is.
25. You think owning a Honda is Un American.
26 You know that UP is a place, not a direction
27. You know it’s possible to live in a thumb.
28. You understand that when visiting Detroit, the best thing to wear is a Kevlar vest.
If people only knew how true that was…..
Hehe
Done ’em all.
Cops on the east coast will not understand when you try to explain #5 to them.
And don’t bother trying to explain to them that you know the dozen or so different VARIETIES of snow. – Or that driving THE SPEED LIMIT through 2″ of dry powder may make THEM nervous, but for you its just like any other day.
How does Jeff know these things about Michigan, unless . . . Is his southern accent for real?
Maybe he’s really travelling incognito.
wow if ppl only knew that we are this way they would never come here they would think that we were nuts but i to have done most of these things
I know Jeff. His daughter goes to my school, and Jeff always goes on our school tripes and comes to pick her up. Preety sweet huh.
haha this is hilarious
i live in michigan and mostly all of these things are normal to us
Except for #20 – #28 these are exactly the same as Jeff Foxworthy on Wisconsin, which are equally as funny! I used to live in Michigan, and all of these are true. I now live in Wisconsin, where stereotypes run deeper!
um, is it bad if i didn’t find some funny because i didn’t know it was weird
lol so sad most of this is true…#25 though I have no idea where he comes off on that, because about half the cars I see everyday are foreign (most Honda). And obviously he doesn’t know that July is nearly as hot as Florida–not even ’07 was that cold during the middle of the summer. (So I made a hyperbole, sue me).