>     If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through
>     36 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will
>     swim by, you might live in Upstate New York.
>
>     If you're proud that your region makes the national news 96
>     nights each year because Saranac Lake is the coldest spot in the
>     nation,you might live in Upstate New York.
>
>     If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May,
>     you might live in Upstate New York
>
>     If you instinctively walk like a penguin for six months out of the
>     year,! you might live in Upstate New York.
>
>     If someone in a store offers you assistance, and they don't work
>     there, you might live in Upstate New York.
>
>     If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of
>     his forehead, you might live in Upstate New York.
>
>     If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you might
>     live in Upstate New York.
>
>     If your town has an equal number of bars and churches, you might
>     live in Upstate New York.
>
>     If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who
>     dialed a wrong number, you might live in Upstate New York.
>
>
>     YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE UPSTATE NEW YORKER WHEN:
>
>     1. "Vacation" means going South past Albany 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 both
> unlocked.
>     8. You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend / wife
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
road
> construction.
>     12. You can identify a southern or eastern accent.
>     13. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to
your
> blue spruce.
>     14. You were unaware that there is a legal drinking age.
>     15. Down South to you means Albany.
>     16. A brat is something you eat.
>     17. Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new pole shed.
>     18. You go out to 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, and you forward them to all
> your Upstate New York friends.
>
>     Sad....but true!!!