You Know You're in Maine When... (Bangor, Calais: fit in, home, purchases)

[lrfox]

Originally Posted by Bydand

No flipping billboards! Most other places you go the roadside is littered with them, it is refreshing to drive down any road and not be assaulted by huge ugly billboards. I really love the ones that advertise for strip club/adult toy stores, and have the 6 year old want to go to the toy store.

hahahaha. I can only imagine. Good point, I forgot about that. Big difference between the highway in Maine and the highway in Orlando.

[RHB]

When you get pulled over and only get a fix it warning - no fines, nothing but getting it fixed so everyone stays safe.

And when the conversation turns to how this little car (I drive an Aveo, very small car) handle in the snow...

[RHB]

After reading another thread....

You know you are in Maine, when you air out your house on those wonderful warms days of 40*

[lrfox]

Originally Posted by RHB

When you get pulled over and only get a fix it warning - no fines, nothing but getting it fixed so everyone stays safe.

And when the conversation turns to how this little car (I drive an Aveo, very small car) handle in the snow...

On that note,

You know you're in Maine when the Border Guard in Jackman starts giving you a hard time because "You know, the fact that you're a college student driving that car [a borrowed luxury SUV] and you have out of state plates [Massachusetts plates] leads me to be a BIT suspicious of the purpose of your brief stay in Canada sir... please step out of the car... where you do go to college..."

Well, as soon as I mentioned Farmington (where I was at the time), he went off about some friends' kids he knew that went to school there. Turns out, I dated a friend of his daughters and had spent time at the house next to his in Skowhegan.

We talked about mutual acquaintences and ended up chatting for about 45 minutes about absolutely nothing (and everything, in a way). He never ended up looking in the car and told me about great places to go hunting in the area (also mentioned he spends nights in his truck in the woods near Jackman when it's warm instead of driving back to Skowhegan).

I thought that was really funny how quickly the mood changed once he realized (or concluded) that I wasn't just some punk passing through. It was a good trip though.

[Elcarim]

You know you're in Maine when.........there are only 12 cars in the Walmart parking lot..............and you're one of them!!

[forest beekeeper]

Originally Posted by Elcarim

You know you're in Maine when.........there are only 12 cars in the Walmart parking lot..............and you're one of them!!

And one of those vehicles is a tour bus from Canada.

[reloop]

You know your in Maine when...you can switch from muck boots to flipflops in the same day.

You know your in Maine when...you prepare intimate dinners for your front-end alignment person during the spring season.

You know your in Maine when...you wear one of those net hats to go get the mail in May.

You know your in Maine when...you attend your kid's little league game with a gallon of Bug Be Gone, and a comforter just in case it "cools off."

You know your in Maine when...you see someone wearing shorts with a winter jacket and snowmobile boots.

You know your in Maine when...you carry full chemical gear when going in the woods during the summer in an effort to combat the deer flies.

[retiredtinbender]

Originally Posted by forest beekeeper

And one of those vehicles is a tour bus from Canada.

That's the casino in Bangor.

[Northern Maine Land Man]

"You know your in Maine when...you carry full chemical gear when going in the woods during the summer in an effort to combat the deer flies."

You don't need "full chemical gear" for deer flies. You just need a 6 inch strip of tan two sided carpet tape on top of your hat. Deer flies are attracted to tan objects. They land on the tape and they don't bother you any more. They don't bother anybody any more. The only risk is if you accumulate too many and they fly off with your hat!

[reloop]

Originally Posted by Northern Maine Land Man

"You know your in Maine when...you carry full chemical gear when going in the woods during the summer in an effort to combat the deer flies."

You don't need "full chemical gear" for deer flies. You just need a 6 inch strip of tan two sided carpet tape on top of your hat. Deer flies are attracted to tan objects. They land on the tape and they don't bother you any more. They don't bother anybody any more. The only risk is if you accumulate too many and they fly off with your hat!

Good to know