[Sundown17]

You know you're in New Hampshire when:

Your idea of a traffic jam is 10 cars waiting to pas a tractor on the
highway.

Vacation means going up north to Pittsburg for the weekend.

You measure distance in hours.

You know several people that have hit deer more than once.

You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and back again.

You use a down comforter in the summer.

You drive at 65mph through 2 feet of snow during a raging blizzard,
without flinching.

You see people wearing hunting clothes at social events. Jacket and tie with LL Beans, just ask any real estate agent or politician (maybe a school principal or two)

You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both
unlocked.

You think of the major food groups as venison, beer, fish, and berries.

You carry jumper cables in your car and your girlfriend knows how to use
them.

There are 7 empty cars running in the parking lot at the local IGA at any
given time.

You design your kids Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

Driving is better in winter because all the potholes are filled with
snow.

You know all four seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter, and
road construction.

It takes you 3 hours to go to the store for an item even when you're in
a hurry because you have to stop and talk to everyone in town.

You buy your Christmas presents at the feed and grain or hardware store.

You define summer as three months of bad sledding.

Snow tires come standard on all your cars.

You can identify a Massachusetts accent.

You know what cow-tipping is.

Down South to you means Boston.

You consider Manchester exotic.

You don't have a coughing fit from one sip of Ballantine Ale.

You know what a bubbler is.

Your neighbor throws a party to celebrate his new machine shed.

You can recognize someone from Massachusetts from their driving.

You were unaware there is a legal drinking age.

You can visit Berlin, New London, Bethlehem, Lisbon, Lebanon and Dublin
all in one afternoon.

You only know three spices: salt, pepper, and ketchup.

You've seen mosquitos with landing lights.

The local paper covers major headlines on one page, but requires for
pages for sports.

At least twice a year, your kitchen doubles as a meat processing plant.

Your snow blower gets stuck on the roof.

You find 0 degrees a little chilly.

Contoocook, Winnepesaukee, Winnesquam, Mooselauk, Androscoggin, Pemigewassett, Piscatequog, Ammonoosuc, Ashuelot, Minnewawa, Souhegan, Wonalancet and Kancamagus are all geographic names you need to know and pronounce.

You might be a native if you still refer to Manchester as "Amoskeag".

Not only is the first day of deer season a NH National Holiday, employers know that whatever week you prefer to hunt in deer season they need to plan for you not being at work. No buts about it. Some companies, like Sturm, Ruger, shut down for a few weeks during deer season to do retooling.

Been to Etna, Milan, Dover, and Leavenworth on the same afternoon, too, ayup.


Diane (who's lived in NH for most of my adult years but will always be a considered flatlander from Massachusetts, lol)