You might be from New
England if...
* If you consider it a sport to
gather your food by drilling through
36 inches of ice and sitting
there all day hoping that the food will swim by,
you might live in New
England.
* If you're proud that your
region makes the national news 96 nights each
year because Mt. Washington
is the coldest spot in the
nation, and Boston gets more snow than any
other major city in the US, you
might live in New England.
* If your local Dairy Queen is
closed from September through May, you
might live in New England.
* If you instinctively walk like
a penguin for six months out of the
year, you might live in New
England.
* If someone in a Home
Depot store offers you assistance, and they don't
work there, you might live in New England.
* If you've worn shorts and a
parka at the same time, you might live in
New England.
* If your town has more bars
than churches, you might live in New
England.
* If you have had a lengthy
telephone conversation with someone who
dialed a wrong number, you might
live in New England.
YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE NEW ENGLANDER WHEN:
1. "Vacation" means going South
past New York City for the weekend
2. You measure distance in hours.
3. You know several people who
have hit a deer more than once.
4. You often switch from "heat"
to "A/C" in the same day and back again.
5. You can drive 65 mph through
2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.
6. You see people wearing
camouflage at social events (including weddings).
7. You install security lights
on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
8. You carry jumper cables in
your car and your girlfriend / wife knows how to use them.
9. You design your kid's
Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
10 Driving is better in the
winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
11. You know all 4 seasons:
almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction.
12. You can identify a southern
or eastern accent.
13. Your idea of creative
landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your blue spruce.
14. You were unaware that there
is a legal drinking age.
15. Down South to you means
Philadelphia.
16. A brat is something you eat.
17. Your neighbor throws a party
to celebrate his new shed.
18. You go out for a fish fry
every Friday.
19. Your 4th of July picnic was
moved indoors due to frost.
20 You have more miles on your
snow blower than your car.
21. You find 10 degrees "a
little chilly."
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