

How to know you’re from Texas
You know that you’re from Texas if you know these things already:
- Armadillos sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.
- Roadrunners don’t say “Beep Beep”
- There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live inTexas.
- There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live inTexas, plus a couple no one’s seen before.
- Possums will eat anything.
- 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.
- You cannot find a country road without a curve from corner to corner.
- 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 good 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. “
- Coldbeer” actually is one word.
- People really grow and eat okra.
- 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.
- When a buzzard sits on the fence and stares at you, it’s time to go to the doctor.
- “Fixinto” is one word.
- The word dinner is confusing. There’s only lunch and then there’s supper.
- Backards and forards means I know everything about you.
- “Je’eet”? is actually a phrase meaning “Did you eat?”
- You work until you’re done or it’s too dark to see.
- You measure distance in minutes.
- You’ve had to switch from “heat” to “A/C” in the same day.
- Stores don’t have bags; they have sacks.
- You know what “cow tipping” and “snipe hunting” is.
- You only own four spices: salt, pepper, ketchup, and Picante.
- You think sexy lingerie is a tee shirt and boxer shorts.
- You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
- You know which leaves make good toilet paper.
- You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, Still summer, and Christmas.
- There is a Dairy Queen in every town with a population over 1000.
- Going to Walmart is a favorite past-time known as “goin wal-martin” or off o “Wally World.”
- You 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.
- You understand these jokes and forward them to your friends.