you know you're a mainer if... (Portland, Augusta: sale, insurance, how much)

[Calandria]

My aunt got this off a "you know you're from maine if" facebook group. She added additional comments in red and mine are in blue. Enjoy!

You've had arguments over the comparative quality of Fried Dough.
You're favorite ice cream is grapenut. Yessah! The best is made at Pat's Dairyland. And I love grapenut pudding, too.
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. Or the certain person we all know and love who spells "idea" with an "r" at the end.
You knew all the flavors at Perry's Nut House. Is that a southern Maine thing?
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. Yessah!
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. Ayuh.
Even your school cafeteria made good chowder.
You've almost fallen asleep driving between Houlton and Presque Isle.
You know how to pronounce Calais. Yessah! It's "callus," by gorey.
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. Ayuh. And those hotdogs better be a good fuschia if I'm going to eat them.
You've gone to a Grange bean supper.
Baked beans ARE supper. With brown bread from the can.
In high school, you (or a friend) packed Deering Ice Cream cones.
At least once in your life, a seagull pooped on your head. I saw one poop on our neighbor's stomach at Bar Harbor!
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. And you pronounce it "EYE-talian."
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. C'mon, not all Mainers live on the coast.
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. Uncle Henry's rocks!
You've ditched the car on the side of the road somewhere because you thought you saw some good fiddleheads! Yessah!
You know a lobster pot is a trap, not a kettle. Coastal Mainers again.
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. Not me personally but I know SO many who do...
You've watched "Murder she Wrote" and snickered at the stupid fake accents. Yessah! Especially that Bosley guy.
You know how to find the rope swing at the quarry.
You take the New Hampshire toll personally. They have to have some consolation for living in that state.
You always wave when you see a Maine license plate in another state. Once I stopped at a red light in Reynosa, Tampaulipas, Mexico beside a guy with a Maine license plate! We rolled down the windows and chatted a minute. He'd just moved there to work in a maquiladora, a U.S. factory on Mexican soil.
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. And when you say "Portland" you are never referring to the inferior city by that name in Oregon. That would be "Portland, Oregon," which was named after Portland, Maine.
"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. We even said that inland.
"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. Ayuh.
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 dice dill pickles and add them to clam chowder.
Vinegar is a condiment usually found at the supper table and poured on vegetables.
You call the basement "downcellah." Yessah!
There is only one shopping plaza in town. .
You use "wicked" as a multipurpose part of speech.
Correction: You use "wicked" as an adverb, as in "wicked mad" or "wicked funny." You would not use it as an adjective as in "That's a wicked man." Instead you'd say, "That man is e-vile."
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. And the other half bear or venison!
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.
People often tell you, "You are the very first person I've ever met from that state."
You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from Maine.

[Bydand]

Wow, there are some real ones in there aren't there. LOL

[mollysmiles]

lol....thanks Calandria! I'm partial to the Calais one! and I'd add one about "you know better than to park on the beach, unless it's a lake beach..."

where in Maine are you from?

[Calandria]

The great shiretown of Dover-Foxcroft. I get very homesick this time of year!!

[mollysmiles]

I think that area is beautiful! I understand why you're homesick! Right now there's a sale going on there of Moosehead Maple...I'd love to get over there, but the schedule won't allow it. I will really miss that furniture company...

[msina]

I'm in Milo,... I love it here. (Dover-Foxcroft is or nearest "metropolis")

[dmyankee]

"you know you're from maine if" your diggin' out your dooryard in nothin' more than a t-shirt.

[MRVphotog]

I hear this one recently that made me laugh...

You know your a Mainer if you go into a chinese restaurant and order American Chop Suey

[dmyankee]

You know your a Mainer if you refer to the office water cooler as a bubblah.

[mollysmiles]

and you know what a Needham is......