- You see more Texan flags than American flags.
- You know someone who ate the 72 oz steak and got it for free.
- You attend a formal event in your best clothes, your finest jewelry, and your Cowboy Boots.
- You can write a check at Dairy Queen for 2 Hungr-Busters and fries.
- You prefer Whataburger to McDonalds.
- You dress up to go shopping at the mall.
- You've hung ornaments and tinsel on a tumbleweed and used it as a Christmas tree.
- You're disappointed when a food doesn't come in spicy flavor.
- You know from experience that rattlesnake meat tastes like chicken.
- You can tell a rock from an armadillo at 300 yards.
- You know what a 'Cowboy Cadillac' is.
- You have both a dog and a brother-in-law named Bud
- You grocery shop at HEB.
- You watch the movie Urban Cowboy and laugh at the phony Texan accents
- You choose a brand of Mexican salsa with the same care that another might use to select a bottle of fine wine
- You think that the 4 basic food groups are nachos, bar-b-que, fajitas, and Copenhagen.
- You refer to the Dallas Cowboys as "God's favorite football team"
- You know whether another Texan is from South, West, East, North, or Central Texas as soon as they open their mouth.
- You don't consider people from Austin to be real Texans.(they ain't!)
- Your Pastor wears boots.
- Your high school football stadium is equal to, or better, than most professional stadiums.
- The Blue Book value on your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it.
- Armadillos sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.
- Roadrunners dont say Beep Beep
- There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in Texas.
- There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in Texas, plus a couple no ones seen before.
- Possums will eat anything.
- Raccoons will test your crop of melons and let you know when they are ripe.
- If it grows, it sticks. If it crawls, it bites.
- Nothing will kill a mesquite tree. Nothing!!!
- There are valid reasons some people put concertina wire around their house.
- You cannot find a country road without a curve from corner to corner.
- A tractor is NOT an all-terrain vehicle, they do get stuck.
- The wind blows at 90 MPH from Oct. 2 until June 25, then it stops totally until Oct 2.
- Onced and Twiced are good words.
- It is not a shopping cart it is a buggy.
- You can properly pronounce Corsicana, Ennis, Waxahachie, Palestine, Decatur, Wichita Falls, San Antonio, Helotes, Seguin, Mexia, Waco, Copperas Cove, and Amarillo.
- You can go anywhere with a gun on your truck and no one thinks twice about it
- Coldbeer actually is one word.
- People really grow and eat okra.
- Green grass DOES burn.
- 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.
- When a buzzard sits on the fence and stares at you, its time to go to the doctor.
- Fixinto is one word.
- Ain't no dinner here. Theres only lunch and then theres supper.
- Backards and forards means I know everything about you.
- Jeeet? is actually a phrase meaning Did you eat?
- You work until you're done or its too dark to see.
- You measure distance in minutes.
- You've had to switch from heat to A/C in the same day.
