How I'll Know I've Turned Into A Michigander
 

 1.  When I start defining  summer as three months of bad sledding
 2.  When I can identify an Ohio accent
 3.  When my idea of a 7-course meal is a six pack of beer and a bucket of smelt
 4.  When I can pronounce the names of cities and towns and don't get corrected
 5.  When the 'Big Mac' is something I've driven across
 6.  When I think 'down south' means Toledo and not Texas
 7.  When I bake with soda and drink pop
 8.  When I tell people I'm from Porch Yearn (Port Huron)
 9.  When the word 'thumb' means something geographical rathern than an anatomical to me
10. When I experience frostbite and sunburn in the same week
11. When I expect Vernor's when you order ginger ale
12. When I tell people I traveled 'coast to coast' and actually only went from Port Huron to Muskegon
13. When half the change in my purse is Canadian
14. When I show Texans where I'm from by pointing to my right hand
15. When I order 'iced tea' and the waitress doesn't ask me 3 times what I said
16. When people talk about area towns and I don't ask..... "Where's that?"
17. When I can identify poison oak, ivy, and all the other itchy plants
18. When I quit looking for Ranch Style Beans and Claude's Barbeque Brisket Sauce at the grocery store
19. When I've experienced the changing of the leaves
20. When I take off my Texas license plates
 

Signs I'm Becoming One

 1.  I know how to play Euchre
 2.  I have bird feeders in my tree
 3.  I can pronounce Mackinac
 4.  I'm living in a two-story house
 5.  I shop at a Meijer's
 6.  I know that a blinking red light means I can really go ahead and turn left
 7.  I know that in order to even deposit money into your very own account at the bank - you MUST show
      your driver's license
 8.  I have a Michigan driver's license - complete with the mile-long number (psssst.....still have my Texas one as a keepsake!)
 9.  I can identify a maple tree
10. I have ears of corn sticking on my tree for the squirrels
11. I can hear the loud horn of the freighters as they go buy - and just roll over and go back to sleep
12. I go fishing more than once a week and don't have to drive 2 hours to get there
13. I've gone ice-fishing
14. I'm a Red Wing fan
15. I know what..... "I want Stanley" means
16. I've been to Canada
17. I'm living in a house without air conditioning
18. I know what a Michigan basement is
19. I know to look in the 'ethnic section' at the grocery store for black-eyed peas
20. I have a husband who loves me, laughs with me and will just settle for me becoming a Texichigan

 
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