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Things you should never say to a Mainer.

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As you know, I live in Maine. Land of lobster, rugged rocky shores and sturdy, no nonsense, salt of the earth people. We’re generally laid back and slow to anger so when I saw this article the other day about things you should never say because they piss us off? I had to share a few…

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They’re not.

Trust me on this.

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This goes for all of you except rawgod. His snow storms and cold temps are epic.

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Sumner in Maine is tourist season and believe me, the locals don’t enjoy much about that. We may need your money, but we can do without your attitude and desire to have a Starbucks on every corner thank you very much.

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Warm winters? You can have them… I need snow.

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I really had to laugh at this one. Though that doesn’t look like my husband physically, they’re definitely brothers in spirit. But I have to disagree with the last sentence … there’s not much room left in our cellar.

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42 thoughts on “Things you should never say to a Mainer.”

  2. Whoa, whoa, whoa… only rawgod? I don’t know who that is or where she/he lives, but here in Minnesota we get some biggies and some freezies every winter. Just emerged from a week of -30 windchill. Granted, we’re not the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, but still… 😉

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    1. No biggie, we had minus 35 wind chill as well. Minnesota Schminnesota… rawgod is up in Bumbleflip Canada where the temperature can be -50 and there’s snow on the ground in June. Sorry, he wins.
      Or loses as the case may be.
      😉

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    2. I used to live in Winnipeg, so I know what a Minnesota storm can be like. In fact where I live now is where the Alberta Clippers that hit Minnesota come far, when they are at their worst! I call it Far Far Northern Alberta, up near the border with the NorthWest Territories. Depending on where you are in Minnesota, think 1500 to 2000 kilometers north of you with the winds coming down off the glaciers in the Rocky Mountains. Frozen cold already, and carrying all the available moisture from the Arctic and Northern Pacific Oceans.
      We are not comparable to the storms they have in Antarctica, but we do have our moments. Generally speaking, we get the same storms as you, only 3 dsys earlier. By the time they get to you they’re already dropped 50% of the snow they carry.
      Mind you, you also get those storms coming up from Colorado, which occasionally hit Winnipeg also. Those storms carried more snow, but seldom temperatures in the -40°C to -50°C range than we get up here 2 or more times every winter.
      The thing is, to River the etorms sound epic. To us they are just a normal part of winter! Like the storms you get in Minnesota.

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      2. Nah. It’s just the way it is. As long as you check the temos and look out the window, you can dress for the weather — or just stay put until the bitterness goes away. It always does.
        Truly, there is nowhere I would rather live than in the far north. (Except as the body ages, we have to stay put more often. 🙃 )
        Still, I feel for you in Minnesota. You ro get some doosy storms there!

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      4. They do! They have storms that mix temperature and humidity. I lived there for a couple winters. I left. Same with the West Coast. At least on the prairies our clothes stay dry. On both coasts I experienced clothing that absorbed the water, and when the temps fell, the clothing froze too. I moved back to the prairies because dry cold us what I am used to. The numbers don’t really matter, as long as you dress for them. On the coasts, no natter what I wore, I froze.

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  3. Having lived in the northeast of Vermont I learned about snow and cold (yes, you plugged your car in at night and sometimes during the day if the car was sitting outside and you wanted to get home after work) – an engine block heater was standard equipment on cars. 10 feet of snow? No problem. Freeze warnings in August, snow in September – ho-hum. Drove my husband crazy the first time he was in DC during the Winter it had snowed just a foot or so and everything closed down and no one knew how to drive in it – but then again drivers in the DMV are the worst drivers (even worse than NJ drivers.) Can I say, without offending you, that I am not particularly fond of lobster? I much prefer crab…

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  6. Look I’ll take that jab you made about southern states not being able to handle a “rough winter” because it’s true. It rains here and peeps get into more accidents than dodging a cow on the highway. As for snow, what’s that? But to be fair when your raised in Texas we know nothing of lobster rolls (and don’t want to if its not fresh because where I live we’re landlocked) or crazy peeps in their skivvies taking in the -50 below weather. But, I would love to spend the winter just once somewhere north, or even the summer because down here the summers get brutally hot, like 108 degrees in the shade hot. Also, the hubs is definitely your typical Mainer, he hangs on the everything, lol.

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    2. You are welcome to come up here for a year, Huntress, just to experience cold winters and hot summers. Just 7 latitudes below the Arctic Circle we get 4 hours of daylight in winter, and 4 hours of twilight in summer. At least twice a winter we experience -40° temperatures (before wind chill) for 1 to 2 weeks at a time. Lately, in summer, our temperatures hit the 40°C range (100° F). The good thing is we have little humidity in summer, so it is a dry heat. Like in a sauna, all day long!

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  8. Ordering a lobster roll outside of Maine is like getting a beignet somewhere other than New Orleans, or Cincinnati chili outside of Ohio, or proper cheese curds someplace other than Wisconsin, or Kentucky Fried Chicken anywhere but Kentucky.

    Wait. Scratch that last one.

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      2. Jambalaya was born in Cajun south Louisiana … so yes. Better answer.

        Nun farts are slightly different, more round than square. But basically the same taste.

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