You Might Be a Minnesotan if...

If you???re proud that your state makes the national news 96 nights each Year, because International Falls is the coldest spot in the nation, you might live in Minnesota.

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from November through March, you might live in Minnesota.(Who eats ice cream in the winter?!

If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don???t work there, You might live in Minnesota.(Guilty.)

If your dad???s suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of his forehead, you might live in Minnesota.

If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you might live in Minnesota.(It was a sweater but still.)

If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might live in Minnesota.(More bars.)

If you know how to say Wayzata, Mahtomedi, Edina, Shakopee ,Winton and Ely, you might live in Minnesota.(Whyzeta, Edineah, Shockopee, Eli)

If you think that ketchup is a little too spicy, you might live in Minnesota.(It is spicy.)

???Vacation??? means going up north past Virginia for the weekend.(Or going to Wisconsin.)

You measure distance in hours. (Guilty.)

You know several people who have hit deer more than once.(My dad, uncle, grandparents, and a few others.)

You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard, without flinching.(Yup.)

You see people wearing hunting clothes at social events.(Occasionally. Mostly at Chrismtas cause that's when my family heads out for hunting.)

You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.(No sense in leaving it locked. The lights scare them off.)

You carry jumper cables in your car and your wife/girlfriend knows how to use them.(Yep.)

There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at Cub Foods Grocery Store at any given time.(Uh-huh.)

You design your kid???s Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.(Who doesn't?)

You consider Minneapolis exotic.(Not anymore.)

Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to your Blue spruce.(We don't even decorate our lawns anymore.)

Down South to you means Iowa.(More like Wisconsin.)

You were prouder than anything when you got a snow shovel for your birthday in March.(Yup yup!

You got to use the shovel as soon as the wrapping papers was thrown away.(Definitely.)

You nearly pee your pants laughing when you here some state shut down due to a few feet of snow.(Wusses.)

50 degrees in March is warm.(It is!

-20 in December is a little nippy.(Yes.)

You book it into the house when the temp goes above 70.(Sweating is horrible when that happens.)

Your town isn't trying to be ironic when they set up the winter carnival.(*snicker* Minneapolis sure isn't.)

Even though you know five feet of snow won't cancel school, you watch the tv in hopes it does.(*sigh* Guilty. T.T)

every January, from age 2 to 13, you let your older siblings talk you into putting your tongue on a steel post.(Talked my little cousin into doing it. Now there's little bits of frozen tongue on the fence post at the front of his driveway.)

You actually understand these jokes, and you email a link to this post to all your Minnesota friends.