You might be a [true] Texan if...
- You actually knew before reading this blog post that March 2nd is Texas Independence Day.
- If you know what that even means.
- If you actually celebrate it.
- If you know important Texas History tidbits by heart.
- If you consume any of the following at least once a month, if not once a week:
- BBQ
- Steak
- Mexican Food
-Tacos
- Pecan Pie
- Blue Bell
-Dr. Pepper
- If you have connections in any of these towns.
- If no summer is complete until you've tubed the Comal, Frio, Guadalupe, and San Marcos rivers.
- Or if your favorite place to swim isn't your local pool, because you have access to Barton Springs, Blue Hole, Hamilton Pool, Jacob's Well, and Krause Springs!
- If you actually know how to pronounce Krause Springs.
- If you've driven on highways (big and small) and the speed limit is 85.
- If you can get any object you want in the shape of your state and not think its too prideful.
- If you believe in state pride, and that belief is obvious to everyone around you.
- If someone offers you assistance in a store and they don't even work there.
- If you've worn shorts and a heavy-weight jacket at the same time.
- If your a girl and you wear cowboy boots with your sundresses and/or shorts and its perfectly in style.
- If "there might be sleet" is an excuse for your school district to call a "snow day".
- If you or someone you know has security lights installed on their house but doesn't bother locking the door.
- If you're a female who carries jumper cables in your truck and knows how to use them.
- If you call all cars trucks, regardless of whether they actually are or not!
- If "vacation" means going anywhere other than your own town for the weekend.
- If you find 70 degrees a "little chilly".
- If you or someone you know have hit a deer, more than once, on the highway.
- If you consider camo to be your unofficial state color.
- If you or someone you know has worn a camo formal gown or tux to prom.
- If the following restaurant scenarios get on your nerves:
- they do not serve sweet tea
- they charge extra for chips and salsa
- they only carry off-brand 'Dr. Pepper'
- they serve melted cheese instead of queso
- If you've gotten caught up in a "Whataburger vs. In-N-Out" argument.
- If you secretly hate people who constantly complain about hating living here.
- If you know George Strait really is our state king.
- If you know how to correctly pronounce the following Texas places and things:
- Corsicana, Tx
- Decatur, Tx
-Gruene, Tx
- Burnet, Tx
- Refugio, Tx
- Mexia, Tx
- Humble, Tx
- New Braunfels, Tx
-Waxahachie, Tx
-Nacogdoches, Tx
- Palestine, Tx
-Pflugervile, Tx
-Bexar County
-Kuykendahl Road (in Houston)
-Balmorhea
- Pedernales
- If you have manners that include saying "please", "thank you", " excuse me" "yes ma'am", and "yes sir" and get mad when other people don't use them or give you funny looks when you do.
- If you know that the true value of a parking space is determined by level of shade, not distance.
- If you've been in a traffic jam that involves two cars at a 4-way stop trying to be polite to each other by letting the other-one have the right of way even if its technically their own turn.
- If a Meredes Benz is not a status symbol, but a lifted Ford F-350 is.
- If you've ever had this conversation: "You wanna coke?" "Yeah." "What Kind?" "Dr. Pepper."
- If you follow multiple Texas themed social media accounts.
- If you or someone you know believes that Texas should secede.
- If you prefer to listen to local artists that make up the genre "Texas Country" music rather than mainstream stuff.
- If you own and regularly wear a rather large collection of state themed t-shirts.
- If people think your accent is "cute";
- If you either support the Dallas Cowboys or Houston Texans, not both, and you don't switch between who's doing better.
- If you still love the Cowboys even when they're doing less than great.
- If you've seen a Jaguarundi or a black panther or a mountain lion in the wild.
- If you or someone you know gets paid to hunt wild hogs.
- If you or someone you know participates in Rattlesnake Roundups.
- If your town goes all out for Homecoming.
- If when you go to a high school dance the only thing anybody can do is the Texas two-step.
- If you don't have a problem staying in-state for college because you have so many amazing in-state choices.
- If you would never consider moving out-of-state.
- If you consider hunting/shooting to be your sport.
- Christmas shopping involves a trip to Calela's, Cavenders, Bass Pro Shop or a local general store.
- If you've received gifts such as:
- cowboy boots
- belt buckles
- Schlitterbahn tickets/season passes
- boxes of Pangburn's Millionaires
- Texas themed Ugly Sweater
- a Collin Street Bakery fruit cake
- a gift card to a steak house
-something made from horse shoes
- college football jerseys/t-shirts or game tickets (either UT or A&M)
If you understand all of these jokes and the ones listed in my first post of this series, congratulations - whether you like it or not, you are a true Texan!
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Happy Texas Independance day, Texans!
xoxoxo,
Christina
