You Might Be From Michigan ...
(part 1)
 

• If you've taken your kids trick-or-treating in a blizzard.

 
• If you've ever gone "trolling for tail-lights"

 
• If you've been to Hell and to Paradise & back again.

 
• If you're idea of reaching Climax is driving just pass Kalamazoo.

 
• If your two best friends are Eino and Toivo.

 
• If your town has a blizzard AND a tornado in the same week.

 
• If your snow blower gets stuck on the roof.

 
• If your Little League baseball game was snowed out.

 
• If your idea of the seasons is Winter, Spring, the 4th of July and Construction.

 
• If your idea of creative landscaping is putting an extra pair of pink flamingos next to your blue spruce.

 
• If your idea of a 7-course meal is a 6-pack and a bucket of smelt.

 
• If your fishing shanty is better than your house.

 
• If your favorite holidays are Christmas, Thanksgiving, the opening of Deer Season and Devil's Night.

 
• If your favorite hockey team's mascot is an octopus.

 
• If your family breaks into violence during the UofM-MSU game.

 
• If your definition of a small town is one that doesn't have a lake.

 
• If your children describe their summer vacation out of state as a "trip to Cedar Point."

 
• If your 4th of July family picnic was moved indoors due to frost.

 
• If you wonder where people in the south go for the winter.

 
• If you wonder what part of their bodies people from Florida point to when showing folks where they live.

 
• If you were the one who turned out the lights when you moved south.

 
• If you went to school with more than one NBA basketball player.

 
• If you want Toledo BACK.

 
• If you view gardening as an idealistic gesture of defiance.

 
• If you used to think Deer Season was included as an official school holiday.

 
• If you understand that wearing white before Memorial Day is bad, on a level that goes way beyond fashion.

 
• If you could get lost in the snow and not be found until June.

 
• If you think there should be a "Fudgies go home" bumper sticker on every car north of Clare.

 
• If you think there are only TWO seasons, Hockey Season and Off-Season.

 
• If you think the start of deer hunting season is a national holiday.