You Know You're From Michigan If...

• You show people where you're from by pointing to a spot on the back of your left hand. (Especially useful if you're from the Thumb or the Little Finger.)
• The only place in the world can you experience all four seasons in one day.
• You know what a 'party store' is.
• You've never met any celebrities.
• "Vacation" means going to Cedar Point.
• At least one member of your family disowns you the week of the Michigan / Michigan State game.
• Your idea of a traffic jam is 40 cars waiting to pass an orange barrel.
• Half the change in your pocket is Canadian....eh?
• You drive 86 mph on the highway and pass on the right.
• You know how to play (and pronounce) Euchre.
• It's easy to get Vernor's ginger ale, Better Made chips, Sanders hot fudge sauce, and Faygo pop.
• You know how to pronounce "Mackinac."
• You've had to switch on the heat and the air conditioning in the same day.
• You bake with SODA and drink POP.
• The movie "Escanaba in Da Moonlight" wasn't funny. You consider it a documentary.
• Your little league game was snowed out.
• The word "thumb" has geographical rather than anatomical significance.
• Traveling coast-to-coast means driving from Port Huron to Muskegon.
• You measure distance in minutes.
• When giving directions, you refer to "A Michigan Left."
• You know that Kalamazoo not only exists, but isn't far from Hell.
• Your year has two seasons: Winter and Construction.
• Home Depot on any Saturday is busier than toy stores at Christmas.
• You know when it has rained because of the smell of worms.
• When owning a Japanese car was a hangin' offense in your hometown.
• You believe that "down south" means Toledo.
• Your idea of a seven-course meal is a six-pack and a bucket of smelt.
• You know that Big Mac is something that you drive over.
• You can see a car running in a parking lot with no one in it, no matter what time of the year.
• You end your sentences with a preposition; example: "Where's my coat at?"
• All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, or animal.
• You think of the four major food groups as beef, pork, BBQ sauce, and beer.
• You carry jumper cables and snow chains in your trunk.
• You design your kids' Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
• Driving in the winter is better because the pot-holes are filled with snow.
• Your favorite holidays are Christmas,Thanksgiving, and the opening of Deer Season, which you consider a National Holiday.
• You have 10 favorite recipes for venison.
• You learned to drive a boat before you could ride a bike.
• You owe more money on your snowmobile than your car.
• Your snowblower has more miles on it than your car.
• Shoveling the driveway constitutes a great upper body workout.
• You’ve ever used the word “bogue.”
• The "Big Three" means either Ford, Chrysler and GM, or Little Caesar's, Domino's, or Hungry Howie's.
• You think alkaline batteries were named after a Tiger outfielder.
• Your definition of a small Michigan town is one that doesn't have a lake.
• You define summer as three months of bad sledding.
• You attend a formal event in your best clothing, finest jewelry, and snowmobile boots.
• The municipality buys a zamboni before a bus.
• You have experienced frostbite and sunburn in the same week.
• The orange barrel is considered Michigan's 'other' lighthouse.