The Loud Talker

I usually don’t forward or share these lists, but after living more than half of my life in Texas, marrying a Texan who gave birth to two little Texans, I consider Texas my home. I drive a pickup, carry a gun, have two big dogs, cook brisket, and sometimes start sentences with “hell.” Enjoy.

• Armadillos sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.
• There are 5,000 types of snakes on earth 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.
• If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.
• ‘Twiced’ is a word.
• People actually grow and eat okra
• ‘Fixinto’ is one word.
• There is no such thing as ‘lunch.’ There is only dinner and then supper.
• 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!
• ‘Backwards and forwards’ means I know everything about you!
• Djeet 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.
• You don’t PUSH buttons, you MASH them..
• You measure distance in hours. Like its 6 hours from Houston to Dallas .
• You’ll probably have to switch from ‘heat’ to ‘A/C’ in the same day.
• ‘Fix’ is a verb. Example: ‘I’m fixing to go to the store.’
• You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
• Yes, Friday night high school football games is serious football!
• You carry jumper cables in your car .. . .  for your OWN car.
• There are only four spices: salt, pepper, Tabasco and ketchup..
• The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local gossip and sports.
• 100 degrees Fahrenheit is ‘a little warm.’
• We have four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, still Summer and Christmas.
• Going to Wal-mart is a favorite past time known as ‘goin’ to Wally-World.’
• Gravy is a food group.
• A cool snap (below 70 degrees) is good pinto-bean weather.
• A carbonated soft drink isn’t a soda, cola or pop. . . . it’s a Coke, regardless of brand or flavor. Example:  ‘What kind a coke you want?’
• Fried catfish is the other white meat.
• We don’t need no stinking driver’s ed . . . if our mama says we can drive, we can drive.
• And the most important thing we learn growing up in TEXAS is… IN GOD WE TRUST