How to tell a real Mainah

Ok, so I%26#39;ve seen about a dozen of these. But they still ring true most times. Thought some of you might enjoy...

You Know You%26#39;re From Maine If...

 

 You%26#39;ve had arguments over the comparative quality of fried dough, or hot dogs..

 

 You call four inches of snow ';a dusting.';

 

 You don%26#39;t understand why there aren%26#39;t fried clam shacks elsewhere in the country.

 

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

 

 You%26#39;ve hung out at a gravel pit.

 

 You think a mosquito could be a species of bird (nope! that%26#39;s just you folks from away. to us they are just part of life).

 

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

 

 Even your school cafeteria made good chowder.

 

 You%26#39;ve almost fallen asleep driving between Houlton and Presque

  Isle.

 

 You know how to pronounce Calais. Really? Try this one Euskatasis.

 

 You%26#39;ve made a meal out of a Jordan%26#39;s red-dye hot-dog, a bag of

  Humpty Dumpty potato chips and a can of soda pop. (likely cost you a buck fifty)

 

 You%26#39;ve gone to a Grange bean supper.

 

 At least once in your life you%26#39;ve said, ';It smells like the mill in

   here.';

 

 There%26#39;s a fruit and vegetable stand within 10 minutes of your house.

 

  You crave Italians (sandwiches) at least weekly.

 

  You have to have the sand cleaned out of your brake system every

  spring.

 

 You do the majority of your shopping at Reny%26#39;s, Marden%26#39;s, and out of

  Uncle Henry%26#39;s.

 

You%26#39;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%26#39;ve watched ';Murder She Wrote'; and snickered at the stupid fake

 accents.

 

  You know how to find the rope swing at the quarry.

 

 You always wave when you see a Maine license plate in another state.

 

When you%26#39;re supposed to dress up, you wear flannel with a tie along with your good jeans.

 

There%26#39;s too much ';stuff'; in your 2 ';cah'; garage to get either of

   your cars into it.

 

 No one beeps their horn if you don%26#39;t leave at a green light right

  off.

 

  ';The City'; means exclusively Portland.

 

  All of the traffic lights blink yellow at 10 o%26#39;clock at night.

 

 More stores have ';Bienvenue'; flags than ';Welcome'; flags.

 

You know that a chocolate doughnut is not a white doughnut with

 chocolate frosting.

 

 You wouldn%26#39;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/unzipped because it was just a little cool.

 

You call the basement ';downcellah.';

 

You use ';wicked'; as a multipurpose part of speech.

 

Your pickup has more mud on it than the ground around it for a 15

foot radius.

 

You can actually park in front of the store on Main.

 

More than 1/2 the meat in your freezer is moose and deer.

 

Your ';luxury vehicle'; is a twelve-year-old rustbucket on wheels, and you LOVE it.

 

Your dog eats better than you do, and more often too.

Still trying to figure out how to pronounce Euskatasis? Aren%26#39;t ya.

How to tell a real Mainah

Well, thanks, deah. Please add:

%26#39;You know that Portland is really greater Boston.%26#39;

%26#39;You know that you don%26#39;t have an auditory processing problem, are rude or unbright - you just need a little time to answer.%26#39;

%26#39;You know that a reference to partly cloudy may mean six inches of snow.%26#39;

The challenge, Baxter, is to phonetically write Euskatasis so that we can all pronounce it and please tell us where it is - not found on my Maine map. Thanks.

How to tell a real Mainah

....you know the occasion that called for L.L. Bean%26#39;s to be closed

...it%26#39;s March, 41 degrees, and your sunroof%26#39;s open to enjoy the balmy weather

...the first snowfall still makes you giddy

...you love to travel the world, but practially kiss the ground when you return

I just had to send this list to my son, who is going to school up in Orono.

Possibly specific to Bar Harbor:

--where only the tourists jump when the noon whistle blows.

--when only a newbie calls someone to ask why the fire whistle is sounding a signal every half hour on the morning of a blizzard.

ess- ka- TA- zee

Outstide of Lincoln/ Burlington.

I finally figured out what%26#39;s wrong with the fake maine tv accents (ok there are many problems with it). The PRIMARY one that makes it bad it they talk to darn slow. We real mainah%26#39;s got a way of takin a while to figure out what we want to say, but say it realllll fast.

To the opposite extreme.. when my Maine aunt, moved to Texas, her neighbors would wave and nod and walk away cause no one thought she was speaking english!

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