You can properly pronounce Corsicana, Ennis, Waxahachie, Palestine, Decatur, Wichita Falls, San Antonio, Waco, and Amarillo.
A tornado warning siren is your signal to go out in the yard and look for a funnel.
Someone you know has used a football schedule to plan their wedding date.
You aren't surprised to find movie rental, ammunition, and bait all in the same store.
A Mercedes Benz is not a status symbol. A Chevy 3500 4×4 is.
Waving to strangers on the side of the street is common
You know everything goes better with Ranch.
You know what a real steak tastes like... CERTIFIED ANGUS BEEF!!!
You plan your Friday night after you go to the high school football game.
You get annoyed when people from the north give you crap for using y’all, we all know Y’ALL are just jealous.
You know someone who ate the 72 oz steak and got it for free.
You prefer Whataburger to McDonalds.
You can drive all day (and more) and never leave the state.
You know that DQ = Texas Stop Sign.
Your biggest bicycle wreak fear is, "What if I get knocked out and end up lying on the pavement and cook to death?"
You know everything is bigger in Texas.
You can fix anything with Duct Tape.
Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.
"Vacation" means going to the family reunion.
You measure distance in hours.
You know several people who have hit a deer.
Your school classes were canceled because of inch of snow.
You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
You see people wearing boots and jeans at funerals.
You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it, no matter what time of the year.
You use "fix" as a verb. Example: I am fixing to go to the store.
You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
You think of the major four food groups as beef, pork, beer, and Jell-O salad with marshmallows.
You carry jumper cables in your car ... for your OWN car.
You know what "cow tipping" and "snipe hunting" is.
You think everyone from a bigger city has an accent.
The local papers covers national and international news on a quarter page but requires 6 pages for sports.
You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.
You find 90 degrees F "a little warm."
You know all four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, Still Summer, and Deer Season.
You know that in order for a place to be considered a town, it has to have a DQ, Sonic, and a WalMart.
You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good chili eatin weather.
A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola, or pop ... it's a Coke, regardless of brand or flavor.
You recognize that beans and cornbread is a meal that must have been bestowed upon the people by the Lord Himself.
You can be satisfied with a meal consisting only of a hunk of bread with flavored flour and milk (a delicacy known as "biscuits n' gravy").
Dr Pepper is the best thing in the world.
You understand these jokes and are "fixin" to forward them to your friends from Texas.
Finally you are 100% Texan if you have ever heard this conversation:
"You wanna coke?"
"Yeah."
"What kind?"
"Dr Pepper."
You know what a Dublin Dr Pepper is
You've been tubing down the Guadalupe
You've rented a tube to float down the Guadalupe.... for your beer cooler
You've seen a sign on a restraunt window, forbbiding you to bring guns inside
You can drive 75 or 80 down the highway and you STILL have people yellin for you to get out of the way
You've seen a gun behind the seat of a pickup truck
You consider everyone that lives in states north of Texas to be yankees.
-- Unknown AuthorLabels: Facts, Texas
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