YOU MIGHT BE FROM MICHIGAN...

If you define Summer as three months of bad sledding...

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

If your family breaks into violence during the UM-MSU game. (any sport)

If snow tires came standard on all your cars....

If at least 50% of your relatives work for the auto industry...

If you have ever gotten frostbitten and sunburned in the same week...

If you can identify an Ohio accent...

If owning a Japanese car was a hanging offense in your home town...

If you learned to pilot a boat before the training wheels came off your bike...

If you think Alkaline batteries were named after a Tiger outfielder...

If you point at the palm of your right hand when telling people where you grew up...

If you don't understand what the big deal about Chicago is...

If someone asks you if you've ever been to Europe, and you answer, "No, but I've been to Ann Arbor..."

If "Down South" to you means Toledo...

If you have any idea who Bob Ufer was...

If octupus and hockey go together as logically as hot dogs and baseball...

If travelling coast to coast means going from Port Huron to Muskegon...

If you refer to your relatives in southern Michigan as "Trolls" or "Lopers"...

If the "Big Three" can mean either Ford, Chrysler and GM or Dominos, Little Caeser's and Hungry Howie's...

If the Big Mac is something you can drive across...

If you have no problem spelling Mackinac Island...

If had to get a passport to travel to Ohio...

If you have as many Canadian coins in your pocket as American coins...

If your kids' baseball and softball games have ever been snowed out...

If the trees in your backyard have spigots...

If you know that a place called Kalamazoo actually exists...

If you bake with "soda" and drink "pop"...

If you know what a pastie is...

If you drive 70 on the highway and always pass on the right...

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

If you have a favorite hockey team...

If you don't have a coughing fit from one sip of Vernor's...

If you know how to play Euchre...

YOU MIGHT BE A WISCONSINITE IF:

You define summer as 3 months of bad sledding...

Your definition of a small town is one that only has one bar...

Snow tires come standard on all your cars...

At least 50% of your relatives live or work on a dairy farm.

You have ever been frostbitten and sunburned in the same week...

You can identify a Michigan accent...

You know what 'cow-tipping' is...

You learned to drive a tractor before the training wheels were off your bike.

"Down south" to you means Chicago.

Traveling coast to coast means going from Superior to Milwaukee.

The "Big Three" means Miller, Old Milwaukee and Pabst Blue Ribbon.

A brat is something you eat...

You know that Eau Claire is something you don't eat...

You have no problem spelling Milwaukee.

You get a passport to go to Minnesota...

You don't have a coughing fit from one sip of Pabst Blue Ribbon...

You used to think 'deer season' was included as an official school holiday..

You know that Gotham is a real city...

You can actually pronounce and spell Oconomowoc

You know what a "bubbler" is...

the snow on your roof in August weighs more than you do...

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

A Friday night out is taking your girlfriend shining for deer...

You go out for a fish fry every Friday...

You go to go work in a snowsuit in the morning and return home wearing shorts.

When you tell someone where you're from and they say: "I thought that was part of Canada"

Your idea of the seasons is Winter, Spring and the 4th of July.

You know how to Polka.

Formal wear is a flannel shirt blue jeans and a baseball cap...

Your children describe their summer vacation out of state as a trip to Door County.

You have to go to Florida to get a tan in August..

You define 'swimming season' as Labor Day weekend

Your 4th of July Family Picnic was moved indoors due to frost..

You know where the City of Waunakee is AND you can pronounce it. (by the way, Waunakee is a village!)

You have more fishing poles than teeth...

You decided to have a picnic this summer because it fell on a weekend...