Only in Duluth - Some are pretty good

INTRIGUED · 06-09-2007

Some of you old D-town people could appreciate this.

You hate East, Hermantown, and Proctor even though you may have gone there.

You talk about how good Duluth's water really is.

You know what DECC stands for and have been there.

You think going to Superior is a long drive.

You constantly make fun of people from Iowa.

You have more than one vehicle that does not run properly.

You keep a shovel in the back of your vehicle just in case.

You know how to get to the mall with your eyes closed.

You get mad when you get stopped by the lift bridge.

You have never run in Grandma's marathon, but stand by the finish line.

You have gone sledding on more than one golf course.

Schools close because of the extreme cold.

You get mad because it only snowed 6 in and not 12.

You know more than 1 person that has killed a deer without using a gun.

You where I-35 starts.

You own a snowmobile.

You have licked frozen metal.

You have walked on water in March.

You think Perkins is a good place to meet friends.

You have gone to the Wade.

You avoid Canal Park in the Summer.

You still drive over the speed limit even though you can't see 10 feet past the dense fog or snow that's blinding your vision.

You know that Mesaba isn't a marsupial.

A main road gets paved twice, when it doesn't need it, before another main road, that has pot holes the size of compact cars, gets paved once.

You get the most liberal newspaper in the world: The Duluth News Tribune.

You still drive over the speed limit in a blizzard.

You are saddened by the lack of good restaurants such as Chipotle, Panera, etc.

You describe your car color as "Dirt mixed with salt".

The road you live on has more potholes than canal park has tourists!

You make fun of people from Superior because of their per capita of bars, not realizing of course that Duluth has more, just more spread out.

The things you recognize as you are driving on I-35 are Sugar Daddy's and the Casinos.

You have a vehicle with a block heater.

You have a four wheel drive vehicle.

You have every gone swimming in a lake in October.

You give people directions and you tell them to go up the hill and then realize how insane you sound when they give you blank stares... which hill?

You make fun of two harbors because their mascot is the "agates" even when your's is the "rails."

You know where there's a stoplight.... on the freeway.

Your car alarm has been set off by the 4th of July fireworks.

You know 5 people with the last name Anderson and none of them are even remotely related.

Sometime in your life, you have worn gloves inside the house for warmth.

You complain about the cold, but don't turn up the thermostat because you don't want to get hot.

You have been double bridged.

You have ever bottomed out your car on a city road due to a large pot hole and taken the oil pan off.

You know what crusin' the loop is and you laugh at the dorks who do it.

There is no snow on the ground and a day later there is over 3 feet.

You've gotten hypothermia after being outside for ten long minutes, wear 3 layers of clothes on a "warm" Duluthian day.

You have shoveled out your car a couple hundred times in your lifetime.

"When driving in Duluth, you give the directions "go up here" and "go down here" instead of "take a right" or "take a left" due to the fact that all turns are made on an incline.

You've ever lost your boot in the snow and had to step around barefoot looking for it.

You only start and let the car run if it's below zero.

You laugh at the people who go running to see a ship come through the lift bridge and when they marvel at the size of a 1000 footer.

You call Minneapolis and St.Paul "Da Cities."

You know someone who's been stuck at work for over 24 hours due to snow.

You experience a snow storm so massive, that afterwards, there are doctors on the news warning people not to have HEART ATTACKS trying to shovel all of it.

You keep your plow on your truck all year long.

You can spot a tourist just because they're feeding a seagull.

You can't find a decent job?

You laugh at the kid who breaks out the shorts at 40 degrees.

You've been to a Dukes game.

Pretended to drive off the edge on Skyline.

Think the aquarium is the ugliest building you've ever seen.

You have ever shoveled off the roof of your house so you could jump off it and used your little brother as test pilot.

You laugh at all the tourists daring each other to jump into the lake.

You refer to Lake Superior as "The Lake."

The Christmas City of the North Parade is before Thanksgiving.

You know there is a weather difference between the bottom of the hill and the top of the hill.

All the Local News is the same.

You know what winter smells like before any snow has even begun to fall.

Sand volleyball is played in 2 places... the beach and behind bowling alleys.

You wear flip-flops in the middle of winter and nobody questions your sanity.

You know what Bong and Blatnik are and which one is which.

You are the kid who wears shorts when it is 40 degrees...

You have 5 different coats for all the different seasons and the seasons in between the seasons that only Duluthians can sense, and know what it means to wear a "fleece."

You've ever driven up to hawk's ridge at night in the summer and honked at people in parked cars.

You've driven up Woodland Ave a thousand times, and every time, seemingly worse than the time prior, that right lane makes your car feel like it is going to fall apart.

You know what an Anchor Burger is.

You call "Park Point" the beach even though its not by the ocean.