YOU KNOW YOURE FROM MAINE IF..... 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 arent fried clam shacks elsewhere in the country. Your car is covered in yellow-green dust in May. You can drive the Augusta traffic circles without breaking into a cold sweat. Youve 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 know how to pronounce Calais and Machias. You know that The Airline has nothing to do with planes. Youve made a meal out of a Jordans 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. Youve gone to a bean supper. You know the difference between pea, Yellow-eye, and Red Kidney You wouldnt 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 youve said, It smells like the mill in here. Every summer and fall, theres 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 youre 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 Henrys. Youve 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 watch Murder She Wrote and snicker at the stupid fake accents. Youve swum in a quarry. 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. Youve 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 youre supposed to dress up, you wear flannel with a tie. You know that Moodys 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 theres 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.
Posted on: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 08:58:10 +0000
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