YOU KNOW YOU ARE FROM MICHIGAN WHEN....

1.) You show people where you are from by pointing to a spot on the back of your left hand.
2.) You've never met any celebrities.
3.) "Vacation" means going to Cedar Point.
4.) At least one member of your family disowns you the week of the Michigan / Michigan State game.
5.) Half the change in your pocket is Canadian....eh?
6.) You drive 86 mph on the highway and pass on the right.
7.) Your idea of a traffic jam is 40 cars waiting to pass an orange barrel.
8.) You know how to play (and pronounced) Euchre.
9.) It's easy to get Vernor's ginger ale, Better Made chips, Sanders hot fudge sauce, and Faygo pop.
10.) You know how to pronounce "Mackinac."
11.) You've had to switch on the heat and the air conditioning in the same day.
12.) You bake with SODA and drink POP.
13.) The movie "Escanaba in Da Moonlight" wasn't funny. You consider it a documentary.
14.) Your little league game was snowed out.
15.) The word "thumb" has geographical rather than anatomical significance.
16.) Traveling coast-to-coast means driving from Port Huron to Muskegon.
17.) You measure distance in minutes.
18.) When giving directions, you refer to "A Michigan Left."
19.) You know that Kalamazoo not only exists, but isn't far from Hell.
20.) Your year has two seasons: Winter and Construction.
21.) Home Depot on any Saturday is busier than toy stores at Christmas.
22.) You know when it has rained because of the smell of worms.
23.) When owning a Japanese car was a hangin' offense in your hometown.
24.) You believe that "down south" means Toledo.
25.) Your idea of a seven-course meal is a six-pack of Stroh's and a bucket of smelt.
26.) You know that Big Mac is something that you drive over.
27.) You can see a car running in a parking lot with no one in it, no matter what time of the year.
28.) You end your sentences with a preposition; example: "Where's my coat at?"
29.) All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, or animal.
30.) You think of the four major food groups as beef, pork, BBQ sauce, and beer.
31.) You carry jumper cables and snow chains in your trunk.
32.) You design your kids' Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
33.) Driving in the winter is better because the pot-holes are filled with snow.
34.) Your favorite holidays are Christmas,Thanksgiving, and the opening of Deer Season, which you consider a National Holiday.
35.) You have 10 favorite recipes for venison.
36.) You learned to drive a boat before you could ride a bike.
37.) You owe more money on your snowmobile than your car.
38.) Your snowblower has more miles on it than your car.
39.) Shoveling the driveway constitutes a great upper body workout.
40.) You attend a formal event in your best clothing, finest jewelry, and snowmobile boots.
41.) The municipality buys a zamboni before a bus.
42.) You have experienced frostbite and sunburn in the same week.
43.) You define summer as three months of bad sledding.
44.) You think Alkaline batteries were named for a Tiger outfielder.
45.) You can Identify an Ohio accent.
46.) You know someone from Porch Yearn.
47.) Half the people you know say they are from Detroit yet you don't personally know anyone that actually lives in Detroit.
48.) The Big Mac Is something you drive across.
49.) You know what a "pastie" is.
50.) You have any idea who Bob Ufer was.
51.) Your snowmobile and fishing boat have big block Chevy engines.

Thanks to Andrea Marie Grubich for most of these!