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pomeraniandancer · 10 months ago

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True story: I first began college at a university in New York(for context, I am from Maine). About a week or two into February in my first year in New York, I began to get a little concerned because I noticed the snow was beginning to melt and go away at a fairly rapid pace.

After about a week of observing this with growing concern, I finally just flat out asked my two college roommates, "Is it just me, or is the snow melting really early this year?" My roommates were from Pennsylvania and Oregon respectively. They both gave me an odd look and said, "No, the snow melting in February is perfectly normal." Me: ...Oh. (Me, Internally: "Must be a Maine thing.")

#green fox blue fox #foxes in love #two foxes #February #February: Otherwise known in New England as that month that simultaneously manages to be both the longest and shortest month of the year.#That time my roommates suddenly realized just how far north in New England I actually grew up #I've genuinely heard people outside of Maine -- Vermont for example -- say they're from “Northern New England”#No. No darling. You are from central New England at most.#Maine makes up all of northern New England and a fair chunk of central New England as well #Also -- for the record -- we do have some similarities with Canada #but it is pretty clear that we are Americans/US Citizens and are not Canadian #*Looks at Stephen Colbert as I say this*#(Reasonable exceptions can and are of course made for the dual US/Canadian citizens of the world)#This post is brought to you by me seizing the opportunity to write and submit to the world a rant I've been grousing over for some time now #Last but not least: for god's sake; Twitter did it so now I can ask Tumblr to do it too #Can we *please* have a word limit of over 140 characters for tag on Tumblr now?#The whole time I was writing these tags I could hear David Mitchell as the voice reading them aloud

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