2. You think "Vacation" means going to the family reunion.

3. You've seen all the biggest bands ten years after they were popular.

4. You measure distance in minutes.

5. You know several people who have hit a deer.

6. Your kid's school classes have been canceled because it was too cold.

7. and they have never been canceled because it was too hot.

8. You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.

9. You think ethanol makes your truck "run funny".

10. You know WalMart don't have bags; they have sacks.

11. You know K-Mart don't have shopping carts; they have buggies.

12. You see people wearing bib overalls at funerals.

13. You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it, no matter what time of the year.

14. You use "fix" as a verb. Example: I am fixing to go to the store.

15. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, or animal.

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

17. You think of the major four food groups as beef, pork, beer, and Jell-O salad with marshmallows.

18. You carry jumper cables in your car... for your OWN car.

19. You know what "cow tipping" and "snipe hunting" is.

20. You only own four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup, and Tabasco.

21. You think everyone from a bigger city has an accent.

22. You think sexy lingerie is a tee shirt and boxer shorts.

23. The local paper covers national and international news on one page but requires 6 pages for sports.

24. You think that the first day of deer season should be a holiday.

25. You know which leaves make good toilet paper.

26. You find 90 degrees "a little warm."

27. You know both the seasons: January and Summer.

28. You know if another Alabamaian is from southern, middle, or northern Alabama as soon as they open their mouth.

29. There is a Dairy Queen in every town with a population of 1000 or more.

30. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good gumbo weather.

31. A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda or a cola or a pop--it's a Coke, regardless of brand or flavor.

32. Going to Wal-Mart is a favorite past-time known as "goin' wal-martin'"

33. You recognize that cheese grits and catfish nuggets is a meal that must have been bestowed upon the people by the Lord Himself.

34. You can be satisfied with a meal consisting only of a hunk of bread with flavored flour & water (a delicacy known as "biscuit n' gravy")

35. You actually use your truck's four-wheel drive.

36. You refer to Montgomery as "north Alabama".

37. You keep mowing grass in the rain or dark because you know if you stop and wait a day to finish, part of the lawn will be noticeably higher than the rest.

38. You were out of elementary school before you realized that not everyone's father drove a pickup truck.