YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE HOOSIER WHEN:

1. "Vacation" means going up north past US 30 for the weekend. 
2. You measure distance in hours.
3. You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.
4. You often switch from "HEAT" to "A/C" in the same day and back again.
5. You can drive 65 mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging
blizzard, without flinching.
6. You see people wearing camouflage at social events (including
weddings).
7. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave 
 all your doors unlocked.
 8. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows 
 how to use them.
 9. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a 
 snowsuit. 
10. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled
with snow.
11. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter 
 and construction.
12. You can identify a southern or eastern accent.
 13. Your idea of creative landscaping is a concrete statue of a 
deer next to your blue spruce.
 14. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age. 
15. Down South means going to Evansville. 
16. A critter is something you eat. 
17. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole 
 shed. 
18. You go out to a fish fry every Friday.
 19. Your 4th of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.
 20. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.
 21. You find 0 degrees "a little chilly."
 22. You actually understand these jokes.

 Submitted by Dick Carter