Jeff Foxworthy on Upstate New York

[FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I]

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!!!

[palesarah]

lol! I love this one- I've gotten this (with a few changes) as a "you know you live in NH when..." email.

Actually, I had to switch from A/C to heat just a few days ago :rotfl:

[Chevelle]

I live in Jefferson County and this is HILARIOUS!!!!!!!

SO SO TRUE!!!!!

Thanks for the laugh because I really needed it!

:rotfl:

[Energizer Bunny]

Hey, this is true in ALL of NY State! LOL! (except the city, I'm sure!)

[vermonster]

Your post was hilarious-we live in Franklin County, Vermont. We often joke that instead of a show called the OC, we want to do one called the FC and try to show America many of the things in your post.

Vermonster

[shel_wny]

HAHAHA!

So true for all of this here in Buffalo.

I'm proud to be a Western New Yorker!

Shel

[FranEMTnurse, CNA, LPN, EMT-I]

HAHAHA!

So true for all of this here in Buffalo.

I'm proud to be a Western New Yorker!

Shel

My daughter lived in Buffalo for a while. I lived in the Catskill Mountains, in the New York City Watershed area, and was a New Yorker for 54 years. I was born in Esperance, NY, and I too remember all of this.