You know you are a true Michigander when . . . .

1. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.

2. "Vacation" means going down south past Petosky or Green Bay for the weekend.

3. You measure distance in hours.

4. You know several people who have hit deer more than once!

5. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again.

6. Your whole family wears hushpuppies & blue & gold shirts to church on Sunday & they yell Go Blue at the end of every prayer.

7. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.

8. You see people wearing hunting clothes at social events.

9. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.

10. You think of the major food groups as soda, fish, and venison.

11. You carry jumper cables in your car & your girlfriend knows how to use them.

12. There are seven empty cars running in the parking lot at the Farm Fleet at any given time.

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 refer to the Wolverines as "we."

16. You know! All 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction.

17. You can identify an Ohio and Wisconsin accent.

18. You have no problem spelling Escanaba.

19. You consider the lower Peninsula exotic. ya hey!

20. You don't have a coughing fit from one sip of your local adult beverage.

21. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a cow next to your blue spruce.

22. Down south to you means south of Da bridge, the deep south is south of Toledo.

23. A brat is something you eat.

24. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new machine shed.

25. You go out to fish fry every Friday at the Elks, Moose or VFW.

26. You know how to polka.

27. You like to polka.

28. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.

29. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.

30. You find 0 degrees "a little chilly."