Things I Have Learned About Texas!
-Armadillos sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in
the air.
-There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in Texas.
-There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in Texas, plus a
couple no one’s seen before.
-Possums will eat anything.
-Armadillos love to dig holes under tomato plants.
-Raccoons will test your crop of melons and let you know when they
are ripe.
-If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.
-Nothing will kill a mesquite tree.
-There are valid reasons some people put concertina wire around
their house.
-A tractor is NOT an all-terrain vehicle. They do get stuck.
-The wind blows at 90 MPH from Oct. 2 until June 25, then it stops
totally until Oct 2.
-Onced and Twiced are words.
-It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy.
-Fire ants consider your flesh as a picnic.
-Graduating 1st in your class means you left in the 8th grade.
-People actually grow and eat okra.
-When the world ends, only cockroaches and mesquite trees will
survive.
-Green grass DOES burn.
-When you live in the country, you don’t have to buy a dog. City
people drop them off at your gate in the middle of the night.
-The sound of coyotes howling at night only sounds good for the
first couple of weeks.
-When a buzzard sits on the fence and stares at you, it’s time
to go to the doctor.
-Fixinto is one word.
-A tank is a dirt hole in the ground that holds water for irrigation.
-The word dinner is confusing. There’s only lunch and then there’s
supper.
-Tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when
you’re 2.
-Backards and forards means I know everything about you.
-’Jeet? is actually a phrase meaning “Did you eat?”
-You don’t have to wear a watch because it doesn’t matter what
time it is. You work until you’re done or it’s too dark to see.
-They measure distance in minutes.
-They sometimes switch from “heat” to “A/C” in the same day.
-Stores don’t have bags; they have sacks.
-You see cars running in the parking lot at the store with no
one in them, no matter what time of the year.
-They use “fix” as a verb. Example: I am fixing to go to the store.
-All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit,
vegetable, grain, insect or animal
-They install security lights on their house and garage and leave
both unlocked.
-They carry jumper cables in their cars … for their OWN car.
-They know what “cow tipping” and “snipe hunting” is.
-They only own four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup, and Tabasco.
-They think everyone from a bigger city has an accent.
-They think sexy lingerie is a tee shirt and boxer shorts.
-The local papers cover national and international news on one
page but requires 6 pages for local gossip and sports.
-They think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
-They know which leaves make good toilet paper.
-They find———— 100 degrees F “a little warm.”
-They know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer,
and Christmas.
-They know whether another Texan is from east, west, north or south
Texas as soon as they open their mouth.
-There is a Dairy Queen in every town with a population of 1000 or
more.
-Going to Wal-Mart is a favorite past-time known as “goin
wal-martin” or off to “Wally World.”
-They describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good chili
weather.
-A carbonated soft drink isn’t a soda, cola, or pop … it’s a Coke,
regardless of brand or flavor.
-They understand these jokes and forward them to their friends from
Texas.