You know you're from Minnesota when...

-You've never met any celebrities.
-"Vacation" means going to Valleyfair.
-You've seen all the biggest bands ten years after they were popular.
-You measure distance in minutes.
-You know several people who have hit a deer.
-Your school classes were canceled because of cold.
-Your school classes were canceled because of heat.
-You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
-You think ethanol makes your truck "run a lot better."
-You know what's knee-high by the Fourth of July.
-Stores don't have bags; they have sacks.
-You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it no matter what time of the year.
-You end your sentences with an unnecessary preposition. Example: "Where's my coat at?" or "If you go to town I wanna go with."
-You carry jumper cables in your car.
-You know what "cow tipping" and "snipe hunting" is.
-You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.
-The local paper covers national and international headlines on one page but requires 6 pages for sports.
-You think that deer season is a national holiday.
-You know which leaves make good toilet paper.
-You find -20 degrees F "a little chilly".
-You know all 4 seasons: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and Construction.
-You know if another Minnesotan is from southern, middle or northern Minnesota as soon as they open their mouth.
-You actually get these jokes and forward them to all your Minnesota friends.

-Author Unknown

Sorry, couldn't resist. :hi:

I posted the last time this "You Know You're From..." shtick came around.

1. You have American-born friends named Bjorn, Reidun, Einar, and Ingrid.

2. You routinely dig strangers' cars out of snow drifts, knowing that somewhere along the line, someone will do the same for you.

3. Everyone in your town came from the same European village circa 1900.

4. Christmas parties routinely feature lefse, sandbakelse, rosettes, and fattigman.

5. You call a hamburger with lettuce and tomato "a California hamburger."

6. Even the Episcopal church is full of people with Scandinavian last names.

7. There are several Lutheran churches in your town, two for the Germans and one for each of the Scandinavian countries.

8. Before you went to college, you had never met anyone who wasn't Lutheran. Or Catholic. Or Lutheran or Catholic.

9. You know what 30 below zero feels like. You also know what 105 above zero feels like.

10. You have listened to WCCO-AM at 6 o'clock winter mornings, hoping that last night's snowstorm prompted a school closing.

11. When one of your relatives says "the lake," you know exactly which of the 10,000 s/he is referring to.

12. You have the same accent as Jesse Ventura.

13. You have experienced mosquito plagues so bad that the dog didn't want to go out.

14. You have driven through a snowstorm so bad that the windshield wipers couldn't keep up with it, and you have had to navigate by leaning out the driver's side window and trying to follow the tracks of the SUV ahead of you. Only then do you wonder if this trip was really a good idea.