You Know You Live In Upstate New York...

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you may live in Upstate New York.
If someone in a Home Depot store offers you assistance and they don’t even work there, you may live in Upstate New York.
If you’ve worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you may live in Upstate New York.
If you’ve had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who dialed a wrong number, you may live in Upstate New York.
If “vacation” means going anywhere south of Harrisburg for the weekend, you may live in Upstate New York.
If you measure distance in hours, you may live in Upstate New York.
If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you may live in Upstate New York.
If you have switched from “heat” to “A/C” in the same day and back again, you may live in Upstate New York.
If you can drive 75 mph through two feet of snow during a raging blizzard without flinching, you may live in Upstate New York.
If you install security lights on your house and garage, but leave both doors unlocked, you may live in Upstate New York.
If you carry jumpers in your car and your wife knows how to use them, you may live in Upstate New York.
If you design your kid’s Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit, you may live in Upstate New York.
If the speed limit on the highway is 55 mph – you’re going 80 and everybody is passing you, you may live in Upstate New York.
If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled with snow, you may live in Upstate New York.
If you know all four seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and road construction, you may live in Upstate New York.
If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you may live in Upstate New York.
If you find 10 degrees “a little chilly,” you may live in Upstate New York.
 If you actually understand these jokes, you definitely do live – or have lived – in Upstate New York.
Courtesy Dennis Jackubowicz

Lyn Edinger adds: If you don’t understand  how anyone confuses Otego,  Owego, Oswego and Otsego, you may live in Upstate New York.