You Just Might...

You might be from Wisconsin if .....
- you define Summer as three months of bad sledding...
- your definition of a small town is one that only has one bar...
- snow tires come standard on all your cars...
- at least 50% of your relatives work on a dairy farm...
- you have ever gotten frostbitten and sunburned in the same week...
- you can identify a Michigan accent...
- you know what "cow-tipping" is.....
- you learned to drive a tractor before the training wheels were off your bike...
- "Down South" to you means Chicago...
- traveling coast to coast means going from Superior to Milwaukee...
- the "Big Three" means Miller, Old Milwaukee & PBR
- a brat is something you eat ...
- you know that Eau Claire is not something you eat.....
- you have no problem spelling Milwaukee..
- you got a passport to go to Minnesota...
- you don't have a coughing fit from one sip of Pabst Blue Ribbon...
- you used to think Deer Season was included as an official school holiday...
- You know that Gotham is a real city...
- You can actually pronounce and spell Oconomowoc...
- you know what a bubbler is.....
- the snow on your roof in August weighs more than you do...
- your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a cow next to your blue spruce...
- you think there should be a "FIB go home" bumper sticker on every car north of Madison...
- on Friday nights, you go out for a fish fry and take your girlfriend shining for deer...
- you go to work in a snowsuit in the morning and return home wearing shorts...
- when you tell someone where you are from and they say: 'I thought that was part of Canada'...
- your idea of the 4 seasons is Winter, Spring, the 4th of July and hunting...
- you know how to polka....
- you think that Lutheran and Catholics ARE the major religions.....
- formal wear is a flannel shirt, blue jeans and a baseball cap...
- your children describe their summer vacation out of states a "trip to Door County..."
- you have to go to Florida to get a tan in August...
- you define "swimming season" as Labor Day weekend...
- your 4th of July Family Picnic was moved indoors due to frost...
- you know where the city of Waunakee is AND can pronounce it
(by the way, Waunakee is a village!)...
- you have more fishing poles than teeth...
- you decided to have a picnic this summer because it fell on a weekend...

Brian J. Mattson