Things I Learned Living In Texas!!! (1 Viewer)

Suzie Q

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Things I learned living in Texas .
1. A possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road.
2. There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 of them live in Texas .
3. There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 of them live in Texas , plus a couple no one's seen before.
4. If it grows, it'll stick ya. If it crawls, it'll bite cha.
5. 'Onced' and 'Twiced' are words.
6. It is not a shopping cart, it is a buggy!
7. 'Jaw-P?' means 'Did ya'll go to the bathroom?'
8. People actually grow and eat okra.
9. 'fixinto' is one word.
10. There is no such thing as 'lunch'. There is only dinner and then there is supper.
11. Iced tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you're two & we do like a little tea with our sugar.
12. Backwards and forwards means 'I know everything about you.'
13. The word 'jeet' is actually a phrase meaning 'Did you eat?'.
14. 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.
15. You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH ‘EM.
16. 'No. Jew?' is a common response to the question 'Did you bring any beer?'
17. You measure distance in minutes.
18. You switch from heat to A/C in the same day.
19. All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.
20. You know what a 'DAWG' is.
21. You carry jumper cables in your car --- for your OWN car.
22. You only own five spices: salt, pepper, Texas Pete, Tabasco and Ketchup.
23. The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local gossip and high school football
24. You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
25. You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit 'a bit warm'.
26. You know all four seasons: Almost summer, summer, still summer, and Christmas.
27. Going to Wal-Mart is a favorite past time know as 'goin' Wal-Martin' or 'off to Wally World'.
28. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good chicken stew weather.
29. Fried catfish is the other white meat.
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30. We don't need no dang driver's ed. If our mama says we can drive, we can drive, dag-nabbit.
31. You understand these jokes and forward them to your Texas friends and those who just wish they were from Texas .
 
:) Those are hilarious! Only someone who's actually had a phone account in area codes 817, 214, 972, 713 or 210 would fully understand.
 
or 915 or 432... and the first time I heard someone say that so & so' "ate them out" instead of "chewed them out" I almost dropped my tea.
 
So Texas....or Oklahoma for that matter. I know...I've got both in me! :D

Shoot! I've got the hiccups! Anybody got a spoonful of sugar?! ;)
 
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Wait a minute people in texas can learn? :D:p


and now I'm running away before Suzie starts throwing stuff at me:eek:
 
Oh sorry, that was my eviler Twin eviler PJ:D
 
I'm in area code 256 and you wouldn't know it wasn't 817.
Wonderful people around here but their sure are a lot of bugs.
There are nats that can fly straight through a screen wire with their wings spread out.

You take a breath and inhale a whole squadron of the critters.
In Texas you may get carted off or bitten but at least they don't aggravate you to death !
What's the state bird of Louisiana ? Answer : Mosquito!
 
I only lived in Houston from 1966 to 1967 but one thing I did learn - If your neighbors say they've never seen rattlesnakes in the neighborhood chances are all of such critters living in proximity to the neighborhood will slither up at your house. Oh, and my daddy never told momma about the snake that he saw slither into the crawlspace of our house.
Any of you have memories of adults in PJs and robes coming over to your home in the dead of night bearing shovels and axes ready to help you kill a 6 foot rattler parked between your back porch and garage? Man, that was a sight this then 5 year old hasn't forgotten. Or the time your daddy told you he was in the garden about to reach for the garden hose and realized "that's not a garden hose the doggone thing is slithering!"
 
I only lived in Houston from 1966 to 1967 but one thing I did learn - If your neighbors say they've never seen rattlesnakes in the neighborhood chances are all of such critters living in proximity to the neighborhood will slither up at your house. Oh, and my daddy never told momma about the snake that he saw slither into the crawlspace of our house.
Any of you have memories of adults in PJs and robes coming over to your home in the dead of night bearing shovels and axes ready to help you kill a 6 foot rattler parked between your back porch and garage? Man, that was a sight this then 5 year old hasn't forgotten. Or the time your daddy told you he was in the garden about to reach for the garden hose and realized "that's not a garden hose the doggone thing is slithering!"

Well Gary, yall must have killed them all b/c I have lived in and around Houston for all of my 27 years and I have never seen a rattler. A few chicken snakes, and if I on a nearby lake a cottonmouth or two but the only rattlers I have seen where in the Texas hill country.
 
We had a nest of ground rattlers right beside the back porch one time in Corpus Christi.
Justin your new house in the burbs or beside HMP !
I almost bought one next to Texas Raceway but it was too small for my crowd. Had a nice tile pool though.
I really need a bigger garage than house as far as I'm concerned.
I gotta find a new restarant around Cameron cause I get hungry every time I go past it thinking about the old Texas Cafe.
 
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