Been There, Done That...

This was taken from the "You Know You're From Maine If..." group on http://www.facebook.com/. It's the best one I've seen--I've made additions in red.

You know you're from Maine if:

• You've had arguments over the comparative quality of Fried Dough.
• You're favorite ice cream is grapenut.
• You call four inches of snow "a dusting."
• You don't "shovel" snow, you "dig out."
• You don't understand why there aren't fried clam shacks elsewhere in the county.
• You know what an Irving is and the location of 15 of them.
• "I saw him go." has an "r" sound in it, but "My foot is sore." does not.
• You knew all the flavors at Perry's Nut House.
• Your car is covered in yellow-green dust in May.
• Your favorite smell is clam flats at low tide.
• You can drive the Augusta traffic circle without slowing down.
• You've hung out at a gravel pit.
• 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've almost fallen asleep driving between Houlton and Presque Isle.
• You know how to pronounce Calais.
• You've made a meal out of a Jordan's red dye hot-dog, a bag of Humpty Dumpty potato chips and a can of soda.
• You've gone to a Grange bean supper.
• Baked beans ARE supper.
• In high school, you (or a friend) packed Deering Ice Cream cones.
• At least once in your life, a seagull pooped on your head.
• At least once in your life you've said, "It smells like the mill in here."
• There's a fruit and vegetable stand within 10 minutes of your house.
• You crave Italian sandwiches at least weekly.
• Your house converts to a B&B every July and 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 to have the sand cleaned out of your brake system every spring.
• You do the majority of your shopping out of Uncle Henry's.
• You've ditched the car on the side of the road somewhere because you thought you saw some good fiddleheads!
• 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 watched "Murder she Wrote" and snickered at the stupid fake accents.
• You know how to find the rope swing at the quarry.
• You take the New Hampshire toll personally.
• You always wave when you see a Maine license plate in another state.
• When you're supposed to dress up, you wear flannel with a tie.
• There's too much "stuff" in your 2 "cah" garage to get either of your cars into it.
• You know what a frappe is.
• L.L. Bean's not just a store, it's a way of life.
• "The City" means exclusively Portland.
• "Salt damage" is a viable insurance claim.
• All of the traffic lights blink yellow at 10 o'clock at night.
• It's not a storm - it's a Nor'eastah.
• "Open 24/7" might as well be Greek.
• More stores have "Bienvenue" flags than "Welcome" flags.
• You eat ice cream with flavors like 'Moose Tracks" and "Maine Black Bear".
• You know that a chocolate doughnut is not a white doughnut with chocolate frosting.
• You wouldn't eat beans in tomato sauce or Manhattan clam chowder if you were starving!
• 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 eat potato chips with flavors such as "clam dip", "ketchup" and "dill pickle".
• You call the basement "downcellah."
• There is only one shopping plaza in town. .
• You use "wicked" as a multipurpose part of speech
• Your pickup has more mud on it then the ground around it for a 15 foot radius.
• More than 1/2 the meat in your freezer is moose.
• You enjoy a hot chocolate more than a margarita.
• If your "luxury vehicle" is a twelve-year-old rustbucket on wheels.
• If your dog eats better than you do, and more often too.
• If you never say what you paid for an item but how much you "give" for it.
• You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Maine.