| You might be from Wisconsin if ..... You might be from Wisconsin if .....
If you define Summer as three months of bad sledding...
If your definition of a small town is one that only has one bar...
If snow tires come standard on all your cars...
If at least 50% of your relatives work on a dairy farm...
If you have ever gotten frostbitten and sunburned in the same week...
If you can identify a Michigan accent (or my friends always make fun of my Minnesota one)...
If you know what "cow-tipping" is.....
If "Down South" to you means Chicago...
If traveling coast to coast means going from Superior to Milwaukee...
If a brat is something you eat ...
If you know that Eau Claire is not something you eat.....
If you have no problem spelling Milwaukee..
If you used to think Deer Season was included as an official school holiday (everyone, including the teachers left for it!)...
If you go out for fish fry on every Friday...
If you go to work in a snowsuit in the morning and return home wearing shorts...
When you tell someone where you are from and they say: 'I thought that was part of Canada' (that actually happened to me!)...
If your idea of the seasons is Winter, Spring and the 4th of July...
If you know how to polka....
There was at least one kid in your class who had to help milk cows in the morning...phew!
You have to drive thirty minutes to the nearest movie theater. (I did until our town finally got one)
You know how to pronounce "brat".
You have had school closed due to wind chills and frostbite warnings. (gotta love it!)
You design your Halloween costumes to fit over a snowsuit (hasn't everyone?)
The mosquitoes have landing lights
Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway. (or an Amish buggy)
You measure distance in hours.
You know several people who have hit deer more than once.
You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day - and back again!
You use a down comforter in the summer - and gloves.
You drive at 65 miles per hour through l3 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.
You see people wearing hunting clothes at social events.
You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked. |