You Know You're From TEXAS When...

• You only know six spices -- salt, pepper, Ranch dressing, BBQ Sauce, hot sauce or Tabasco.
• You design your Halloween costume to fit over Wranglers and cowboy boots.
• The mosquitoes have landing lights.
• You have more miles on your tractor than on your car.
• You have 10 favorite recipes for Deer meat.
• You've taken your kids trick-or-treating when it was 90 degrees outside. (or put up Christmas lights when it was 80 outside.)
• Driving is better after it's rained because the potholes are filled with mud and you don't have to take those back roads to go "mudding."
• You think sexy lingerie is tube-socks and a flannel nightie with only 8 buttons.
• You owe more money on your bulldozer than your car.
• The local paper covers national and international headlines on 1/4 page, but requires 6 pages for local sports.
• You can write a check at Dairy Queen for 2 Hungr-Busters and fries.
• At least twice a year, the kitchen doubles as a meat processing plant.
• The most effective mosquito repellent is a shotgun.
• Your leaf-blower gets stuck on the roof.
• You think the start of Deer season is a national holiday.
• You frequently clean grease off your barbecue so the coyotes won't prowl on your deck.
• You know which leaves make good toilet paper.
• The major county fund-raiser isn't bingo - it's sausage making.
• You find 70 degrees Fahrenheit a little chilly.
• The trunk of your car doubles as a sauna.
• You attend a formal event in your best clothes, your finest jewelry, and your cowboy boots.
• You know 4 seasons - Almost Summer, Summer, Still Summer and Deer Season.
• You actually get these jokes and forward them to all your Texan friends!

  

You might be a TEXAN...

You can properly pronounce Corsicana, Ennis, Palestine, Decatur , Wichita Falls , San Antonio, Burnet, Boerne, Nacogdoches, Mexia, Waco, Amarillo, and Waxahachie.

A tornado warning siren is your signal to go out in the yard and look for a funnel.

You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.

You know that the true value of a parking space is not determined by the distance to the door, but by the availability of shade.

Stores don't have bags, they have sacks.

You see people wear bib overalls at funerals.

You measure distance in minutes.

Little Smokies are something you serve only for special occasions.

You go to the lake because you think it is like going to the ocean.

You listen to the weather forecast before picking out an outfit.

You know cow-pies are not made of beef..

You are, or have known someone that used a football or NASCAR schedule to plan their wedding date.

You are, or have known someone who has had a belt buckle bigger than your fist.

You aren't surprised to find beer, movie rentals, ammunition, and bait all in the same store.

Your "place at the lake" has wheels under it.

A Mercedes Benz is not a status symbol; a Ford F350 4x4 is.

You learned how to shoot a gun before you learned how to multiply.

You think everyone from a bigger city has an accent.

You go to the gas station and there is a sign in the window that reads, "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Service!"

Your family pet is the stray dog with one leg that came limping up to your door that you named "Tripod.".

You say "Up-their" when you are referring to a place "Over there."

You get made fun of for the way you talk.

People always ask you if you own a horse and ride it to school.

You get asked if you say "howdy"

Finally, you are 100% Texan if you have ever heard or had this conversation: "You wanna coke?" "Yeah." "What kind?" "Dr. Pepper."

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