If You've Lived In Maine, then you should know these things

If you've lived in Maine , then you should know these things...

* You've had arguments over the comparative quality of Fried Dough.

* You diet all week so you can consume 40,000 calories at a fair.

* You eat ice cream with flavors like "Moose Tracks" and "Maine Black Bear".

* When it snows four inches you call it "a dusting."

* You are surprised to discover there aren't fried clam shacks elsewhere in the country.

* You know what an Irving is and the location of 15 of them.

* Your car is covered in yellow-green dust in May.

* You can drive the Augusta traffic circles without breaking into a cold sweat.

* You think a gravel pit is a cool place to hang out

* You think a mosquito could be a species of bird.

* You once skipped school and went to Bar Harbor, Old Orchard Beach or Reid State Park .

* Even your school cafeteria made good chowder.

* You know how to pronounce Calais , Machias , Madrid and Vienna .

* You know that The Airline has nothing to do with planes.

* You've made a meal out of a Jordan 's red-skinned hot-dog and a bag of Humpty Dumpty potato chips.

* You know that a chocolate doughnut is not a white doughnut with chocolate frosting.

* You've gone to a bean supper.

*You know the difference between pea, Yellow-eye, and Red Kidney.

* You wouldn't eat beans in tomato sauce or Manhattan clam chowder if you were starving.

* In high school, you (or a friend) packed Deering or Gifford Ice Cream cones.

*At least once in your life, a seagull pooped on you.

*At least once in your life you've said, "It smells like the mill in here."

* Every summer and fall, there's a fruit and vegetable stand within 10 minutes of your house.

* You call that long sandwich an "Italian".

* Your idea of a traffic jam is being the second car at the stoplight.

* Your house converts to a B&B every July & August for people from away that you happen to know.

*All year long you're tracking sand in the house- from the beach in the summer and the roads and sidewalks in the winter.

* You have a front door but no steps to get to it.

* Your kids start using "wicked" as a multipurpose part of speech.

* You start your shopping by looking in Uncle Henry's.

*You have shopped at the Big Chicken Barn.

*You've ditched the car on the side of the road somewhere because you thought you saw some good fiddleheads!

* You've had a vacation from school just to help the family pick potatoes.
* You know a lobster pot is a trap, not a kettle.

* You know not to plant tender crops until the last full moon in May.

* You go to the dump and bring back more than you brought.

*You've taken a date to the dump to watch the bears

*You watch "Murder She Wrote" and snicker at the stupid fake accents.

*You've swam in a quarry pond.

* You take the New Hampshire toll personally.

*You feel really good when you cross the Piscatiqua River Bridge into Kittery .

* You always wave when you see a Maine license plate in another state.
* You've used a roll of Duct tape and a can of flat black spray paint to get your car to pass inspection.

* You have to replace your mailbox yearly because of the town plow.

* When you're supposed to dress up, you wear flannel with a tie.

*You know that Moody's Diner does NOT take credit cards!

* When the word "stove" refers to what you did to the right front fender of your truck going around the Augusta rotaries.

* When there's too much "stuff" in your 2 "cah" garage to get either of your cars into it.

* When you know what fly dope is.

*When you eat supper at night and dinner at noon.

*As a child, you played outside in a snow storm without hat, mittens, scarf and with your jacket open because it was just a little cool.

*The area around your back door is referred to as "the dooryard" .

*You've got a Moxie in the fridge.