5 Things You Forget Because It’s Fall in Michigan

Fall in Michigan is a mixed bag of weather that will have you chipping ice off your windshield in the morning, cranking the defrost at max heat. You'll often shut your vehicle off, with it melting away ice even as you pull into your place of work, hustling inside to warmer temperatures and hot coffee. This, along with five other left-behind items, are some of the many things Michigan forgets when Fall rolls around.

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Those same settings are still in place when you return to your car on what has turned into a 9,000-degree Michigan fall afternoon, and you're greeted with the arid blast of your heater at full blast.

Changes in Season Leave Michiganders Looking for "Lost" Items

"Seasonally Induced Amnesia Disorder" (not a real thing; I just made it up) seems to impact most of the state when we transition into different times of the year. For instance, nearly every Michigander (not you, of course) forgets how to drive in the snow when the first flake of the year descends.

The annual search for the bucket of sidewalk salt coincides with the first snowfall, which you swear you left  _______. However, someone is obviously messing with you and moved it along with the "good" snow shovel. Now, you're left walking around the interior of your garage with your hands on your hips, conversing with yourself for the entire neighborhood to see: "How can a bucket just get up and walk away? Huh? Well, maybe the SHOVEL TOOK IT!!!"