[I lived in a ‘burb of Dallas/Ft Worth for more than four years, and some of
these are sooooooo true!]
Armadillos sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.
There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in Texas plus a couple no
one’s seen before.
People actually grow and eat okra.
“Fixinto” is one word and it is a verb. Example: “I’m fixinto go to the
store.”
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!
All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable,
grain, insect or animal.
There are 5,000 types of snakes on earth and 4,998 live in Texas.
The first day of deer season is a State holiday.
100 degrees Fahrenheit “a little warm.” We have four seasons: Almost Summer,
Summer, still Summer and Christmas.
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 kinda 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.
~~
Dr Bob Griffin, www.grif.net
“Jesus knows me, this I love”