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| Amradillos sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.
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| Roadrunners don't say "Beep Beep."
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| There are 10,000 types of spiders. ALL 10,000 live in Texas, plus a couple no one's seen before.
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| Possums will eat anything.
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| Racoons will test your crop of melons and let you know when they are ripe.
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| If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.
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| Nothing will kill a mesquite tree.
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| There are valid reasons some people put concertina wire around their house.
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| You cannot find a country road without a curve from corner to corner.
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| A tractor is NOT an all-terrain vehicle. They do get stuck.
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Texas has FIVE seasons.
Spring: Feb 16 to Apr 15
Summer: Apr 16 to July 15 -- Temp from 90-98 degrees F.
SUPER Summer: July 16 to Sep 10 -- Temp from 100-105 degrees F.
Summer: Sep 11 to Oct 1 -- Temp from 90-98 degrees F.
Fall: Oct 2 to Dec 1
Winter: Dec 2 to Feb 15
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| The wind blows at 90 MPH from Oct. 2 until June 25, then it stops totally until Oct 2.
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| Onced and Twiced are words.
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| It's not a shopping cart, it's a buggy.
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| Fire ants consider your flesh as a picnic.
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| People actually grow and eat okra.
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| When the world ends, only cockroaches and mesquite trees will survive.
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| Green grass DOES burn.
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| 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.
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| The sound of coyotes howling at night only sounds good for the first couple of weeks.
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| When a buzzard sits on the fence and stares at you, it's time to go to the doctor.
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| A tank is a dirt hole in the ground that holds water for irrigation.
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| The word dinner is confusing. There's only lunch and then there's supper.
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| Tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you are 2.
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| "Backard and forards" means I know everything about you.
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| 'Jeet? is actually a phrase meaning "Did you eat?"
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| You don't have to wear a watch because it doesn't matter what time it is. You work until it's done or it's too dark to see.
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| You know you are in Texas when:
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| You measure distance in minutes.
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| You've ever had to switch from "Heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
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| You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it, no matter what time of year it is.
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| Stores don't have bags, they have sacks.
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| All festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.
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| You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
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| You carry jumper cable in your car...for your own car.
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