You Know You're From New England...

• If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May.
• If someone at Home Depot offers you assistance, and they don't work there.
• If you've worn shorts and a parka at the same time.
• If you've had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number.
• If you measure distance in hours.
• If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once.
• If you have switched from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day, and back again.
• If you can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching.
• If you install security lights on your house and garage but leave both unlocked.
• If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
• If you think driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow.
• If you know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road construction.

(I didn't create this list; I just picked up bits and pieces from an e-mail someone sent me.)

Comments

[lisa]

hey...that sounds just like Canada! I have done almost all of those things.

[Christie]

I totally agree with Lisa, sounds just like Canada!!

[Judy]

I've been wanting to do a little piece, complete with photos, on "You know you're from Arizona..." - and the items would be things like -If on your morning commute you see coyotes, javelina, quail, horses and emus, and you haven't left your neighborhood, or -If you are driving 70 miles an hour and that is below the posted speed limit, or - If you've been stopped by the Border Patrol and you're nowhere near the border, or - If you know what the Border Patrol, or - If you have indoor cats because of Harris Hawks. Yeah, stuff like that....

[Mikey]

"If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May."

Same thing for those of us from the Chicago Area

[Lora]

You're making me homesick. I'm a Yankee delocated to Texas. The lack of seasons down here is so disconcerting. I don't know if I'll ever adapt.

[Kathy]

you can add too that the local Dairy Queen (in my town it was called Dairy Hut, now it's called Beezers) also serves fried clams, fish & chips and foot long hot dogs

you know someone who has had a close encounter with a moose

And my favorite - you put jimmies on your ice cream - I love that my kids have adopted this name for sprinkles, although here (in Atlanta) they ask for them and people have no idea what we mean!

Kathy

[squirrel]

We used to drive an hour to wait for the big Dairy Queen spring opening!!I got vanilla with cherry dip! Good stuff. My NY kids eat jimmies and I think a parka with shorts looks sexy when you drinking a bottle of tonic!!Can you guess where I grew up