This is Jeff Foxworthy's take on living in Maine. My husband and I laughed when we read this because it is true. I'm going to add a few of my own personal experiences.
You're a native if you not only can use jumper cables to start a car, but know if you drive a standard all you have to do is get it rolling, hop in the car, pop the clutch and your car will start.
What's worse is that you drive said car and deliberately park it on hills so you can get it rolling without pushing it.
You're a native if you know the unemployment rate goes up in September and drops the following June.
You're a native if you understand the following words , Ayuh, cah, lobstah, bot, chimley.
You're a native if you know you have to drive to Bangor or Portland to go to the mall and you know how many hours it's going to take to get there.
You're a native when the folks in your area identify you by who your parent is, I would always hear, "I know you, you're Camilla's daughter."
You're a native if you know where Moody's Diner is and the special on Saturday night is baked beans.
You're a native if you go to the grocery store, stop and talk, because you run into someone you know in practically every aisle. When my granddaughter moved here from Virginia she asked me if I knew everybody because when we went to the store I'd have conversations with various folks.
You're a native if it amuses you when people make fun of the way you talk or they're enchanted by it, while working at a local store years ago I asked a woman if she wanted a bag for her stuff, she turned to the woman she was with and said, "don't you just love the way they talk."
You're a native if you know you better wear an orange hat in November and you have several of them in your house.,
You're a native if you've eaten lots of seafood and you have annual festivals that celebrate lobsters and clams.
You're a native if you raked blueberries and you know the difference between a blueberry rake and a clam fork.
You're a native if you were born here, if you moved here you are not a native. It's sort of like citizenship, if you were born here and moved away, you'll always be a Mainah. If you moved here you will never be considered a native. But it does help if you have natives for relatives, like my mom was born in Michigan, but her mother and grandfather were natives, so she could be considered native through them.
