Well, my story on this is that my son and I were in Chicago together and we went to this nice little restaurant, really close to our hotel and several tables away like the way I, the table that I was facing, I could see these two young people talking to each other and I saw the, the woman hold up her hand and like point to it, like, you know, just like Michiganders do. And so I said to my son, “Oh, hey, I think there’s two people over there. I’m guessing like they might be on a first date, because I think she just showed him where she lived in Michigan.” And I basically, you know, held up my hand and did the same thing, like I was just showing him what she was doing. Well, she happened to be looking up like my way when I did it and she saw me doing it and I guess saw me glancing her way and like our eyes kind of met. I just — I think she instantly understood, like, I’m from Michigan, she’s from Michigan. And I don’t know, I just, we had this like little bit of fellowship there for a minute and I definitely felt like a real Michigander then.
It’s funny because not growing up in Michigan I feel like there are a lot of Michigan things that I’m just not as familiar with that I might be if I had grown up here, you know, that’s because I would have taken civics class in high school or because I’d be traveling around with my family. So there’s still a lot of places like I don’t know necessarily where they are like if you had to, if I had to hold up my hand like a mitten and point out where different towns are I not sure, I do great on it, but I do, I do, most of the time, I feel like a Michigander, I’m proud of this place, I stick up for this place. Glad I live here.