If you've ever gone three weeks straight without seeing the sun.

If you define summer as three months of bad skiing.

If you think Alkaline batteries were named for a Tiger outfielder.

If you can identify an Ohio accent.

If you know someone from Porch Yearn.

If half the people you know say they are from Detroit, yet you don't know anyone who lives in the City of Detroit

If you know how to play euchre.

If the Big Mac is something you drive across.

If you believe "Down South" refers to Toledo.

If you bake with soda and drink pop.

If you drive 75 on the highway and always pass on the right.

If your kid's Little League baseball game has ever been snowed out.

If you know what a pastie is.

If you learned to drive a boat before you learned to ride a bike.

If you pronounce Mackinac as Mackinaw.

If you've ever experienced frostbite and sunburn in the same week.

If the word "thumb" means something geographical rather than anatomical.

If you expect to get Vernor's when you order ginger ale.

If one of your favorite holidays includes the opening day of deer season.

If either your mother or your father disowns you for the week of the Michigan-Michigan State game.

If your year has two seasons--winter and construction.

If traveling coast to coast means going from Port Huron to Muskegon.

If the change in your pocket is half Canadian.

If you can locate where you live on the palm of your hands.