• You have ever been sunburned and frostbitten in the same week.
  
  
• You point to a spot on the palm of your right hand when telling people where you're from.
  
  
• You can explain the difference between yoopers, trolls and fudgies.
  
  
• Owning a Japanese car was a hanging offense in your hometown.
  
  
• You learned to pilot a boat before the training wheels came off your bicycle.
  
  
• You know that a place called Kalamazoo actually exists.
  
  
• You know someone who was Asparagus Queen at a county fair.
  
  
• Someone says "down south" and you think of Toledo.
  
  
• Your family breaks into violence during the MSU/UM football game.
  
  
• You define summer as three months of bad sledding.
  
  
• You had to recite "By the Shores of Gitchee-goomie" for your 7th grade English class.
  
  
• You drive 80 mph on the freeway and always pass on the right.
  
  
• The trees in your yard have spigots.
  
  
• You have as many Canadian coins in your pocket as American.
  
  
• Coast-to-coast means Port Huron to Muskegon.
  
  
• You know how to play Euchre. (and you know what Euchre is.)
  
  
• You are not fazed by a traffic sign saying "Snowmobile Crossing."
  
  
• You bake with "soda" and drink "pop."
  
  
• You have no problem spelling names like Mackinac,Tahquamenon and Ypsilanti.
  
  
• The Big Three are either Ford, Chrysler and GM or Domino's, Little Caesar's and Hungry Howie's.
  
  
• You know that it's usually warmer in Hell than in Paradise.
  
  
• You go "up north" for the weekends.
  
  
• Your child's ball game has ever been snowed out.
  
  
• "Submarine" is a sandwich and "Big Mac" is a bridge.
  
  
• You used to believe Ernie Harwell when he said that the fly ball that went into the stands at Tiger Stadium was caught by a man from Warren.
  
  
• You don't have coughing fit after a sip of Vernors.
  
  
• You know all the lyrics to "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald."
  
  
• You visit Florida and are frustrated because the newspapers there don't report hockey scores.
  
  
• You refer to Kalamazoo, Ypsilanti and Ann Arbor as K-zoo,Ypsi-tucky and A-Squared.
  
  
• You thought Alkaline batteries were named after a Detroit Tiger outfielder.
  
  
• You know all the lyrics to "Take This Job and Shove It."
  
  
• You think that having clogged sinuses is normal.
  
  
• You know that 50 miles any direction from Detroit, is still considered "Detroit".