I Like Texas........

[tinydancer]

Native Austinites, unfortunately, seem to be a dying breed.

On the other hand: The bluebonnets are out in full force! I love springtime in Texas.

[aggieAXO]

ha ha I think I am more concerned and picky about my salsa than any wine

signed,
not a native Austinite but I got here as quick as possible

[tinydancer]

Originally posted by aggieAXO
not a native Austinite but I got here as quick as possible

And we're proud for ya!

[SATX*APhi]

You know you are from Corpus Christi when...

1. "Meeting a celebrity" means standing in line at H-E-B next to the local weatherman.
2. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a camper on SPID.
3. The morning commute is aggravated by "heavy traffic" between 8:05 and 8:08 am.
4. "Vacation" means driving to South Padre.
5. You still wear your letterman jacket (10 years after high school).
6. Your work or classes are canceled because of "dangerous" 30 degree weather.
7. You see people wear tank tops at funerals.
8. You think of the major food groups as beans, tortillas, and beer.
9. When it rains it's the talk of the town for days.
10. When it snows it's a national disaster. (Snow?)
11. During the summer, the car trunk doubles as an oven for your groceries.
12. You consider Corpus a metropolis.
13. The local paper covers national and international headlines on one page, but requires 6 pages for high school football.
14. You've had to switch from Heat to A/C in the same day.
15. You only own 3 spices: salt, pepper, and picante.
16. You think that opening weekend for dove and deer seasons are national holidays.
17. You find 98 degrees "a little warm," and 60 degrees downright freezing.
18. You think the only seasons are hot, damn hot, and winter.
19. You know if another person is from out of town the second he or she walks in the door.
20."Overachievers" go to A&M or UT-Austin. The rest must choose from A&M-CC, Del Mar or A&M-Kingsville.
21. You've had several friends move off and move back within a couple of months.
22. Sandia is something you eat, and somewhere you live.
23. The Shrimporee, Bayfest, & the Livestock Show are the major social events for the whole year.
24. The town mascot is a grapefruit.
25. Honeymoon means "San Antonio."
26. Flour Bluff is considered another town.
27. Calallen is considered "out of town".
28. People remember hurricanes fondly.
29. A big concert for us is some dude or band from the 1980's playing at Concrete Street (and everyone goes).
30. We get excited if a new restaurant opens in town, even if it's an IHOP.
31. You spend 5 years at Del Mar.
32. Going for a cruise means driving down Ocean Drive.
33. You know what a #1 or a #7 is at Whataburger.
34. You remember fondly when Ray and Miller won state in 1959 and 1960 and still talk about it.
35. You consider yourself a "Buc".
36. Landry's and Joe's Crabshack are considered upscale restaurants.
37. You camp out with your family on Leopard Street for 4 days for the Buc Days parade.
38. There's a difference between the H-E-B's.
39. You claim you want to leave, but you never do.
40. You have Whataburger and Taqueria Jalisco on speed dial.
41. You've lost your keys, your money and your virginity at the beach.
42. You grew up watching Joe Gazin and Dale Nelson.
43. The wind doesn't bother you.
44. You secretly love it, but won't admit it.
45. People call it "Corpus."

[SATX*APhi]

You know you are from San Antonio if....

1. You know how to get to the "Ghost Tracks" from anywhere in town.
2. You think "pro-choice" means "flour tortillas or corn tortillas."
3. You've never been to the Alamo.
4. You think being able to read the Taco Cabana menu makes you bilingual.
5. You think a health drink is a Margarita without salt.
6. You used to live in a neighborhood you wouldn't even drive through now.
7. There has been a road crew on your street since before the Alamodome was built.
8. You remember when Crossroads mall used to be called Wonderland.
9. Playland Park...enough said!!!
10. You remember when KTSA was the #1 station in town.
11. You know Dan Cook coined the phrase "It ain't over 'till the fat lady sings."
12. Your idea of culture is wearing a Spurs t-shirt.
13. You think the last supper was at Mi Tierra restaurant.
14. You do your shopping at the Flea Market.
15. You have three rodeo outfits but never have been on a horse.
16. Your subwoofer has twice the value of your car.
17. You remember the Captain Gus show.
18. Your white mother learned how to make tamales and menudo from your neighbors.
19. You take your vacation during Fiesta.
20. You've ordered Mexican food at a Chinese restaurant.
21. You ever went to get breakfast tacos at Taco Cabana on Christmas morning.
22. You remember the Joske's Christmas display.
23. You remember Joske's period.
24. You know that Wheatley and Brackenridge is the same school.
25. You know who plays in the Chili Bowl and the Gucci Bowl.
26. You remember TG&Y, Woolworth, Woolco, and Winns.
27. You remember when JCPenny's had a restaurant.
28. You remember Dillard's on the south side.
29. You learned to drive at Espada Park.
30. You ever went swimming at Espada Park.
31. You ever had an elephant ride at the zoo.
32. You remember hamburgers at Whopper Burger.
33. You know all about the "Dancing Diablo" and the "Donkey Lady" bridge.
34. You've ever been to Midget Mansion.
35. You remember the Toros.
36. You remember the parade sniper.
37. You know that the Alamo is one of the 5 missions in town.
38. Your senior trips were to either Astroworld or Six Flags.
39. Someone in your family has worked for H-E-B.
40. You know 1604 is also known as the "death loop".
41. You remember when Ingram mall wasn't even there.
42. You remember when loop 410 was the outskirts of town.

[SATX*APhi]

You know you are from Houston when...

1. You're on your way to work one FEBRUARY morning and suddenly you're trapped in a traffic jam caused by a chuck wagon and fifty horses with riders and you look around to see that everybody in the cars around you is wearing a cowboy hat.
2. The "farm-to-market" roads have seven lanes.
3. If you want to be a snob about your grocery shopping, you can go to a Randall's Flagship, a Kroger Signature, a Rice Epicurean, or soon, an H-E-B Central Market to buy bread and milk (but you have to dress up, and your dog and cat are out of luck if you go to the latter - nothing as mundane as pet food there).
4. You have to turn on the air conditioning in January, two days after a low of 29 degrees.
5. You have a Roach Story: You opened your flatware drawer to find a roach the size of the Taco Bell Chihuahua. He stood up and looked you in the eye. You closed the drawer, bought new flatware - and stored it in the oven. Or your friend has a Roach Story - about a dive bomber who crashed her formal dinner party, made several passes at guests whose heads were bobbing like little dogs in car windows, and finally landed in somebody's soup.
6. When you see your neighbor dancing around the front yard, you don't think he's won the Publisher's Clearing House Sweepstakes; you know that he just stepped in a fire ant bed.
7. The name "Bud Adams" makes people snarl, and "Bum Phillips" doesn't mean a bad screwdriver.
8. "Luv ya Blue" still makes you smile, even if you did run the Oilers out of town.
9. You know that the Astrodome will always be the Eighth Wonder of the World.
10. You come to work in short sleeves and walk out at noon to find that a "blue-tailed northern" has blown through and the temperature has dropped 40 degrees in a matter of minutes.
11. Your neighbor's Christmas yard decorations look like a re-creation of the gunfight at the OK Corral, complete with a ten-foot tree decorated with boots and cowboy hats, and a Santa Claus who looks a lot like Wyatt Earp.
12. You wander into a section of town where you can't read the street signs because they're written in Asian characters instead of English, but you don't care because you can get great prices on fake designer merchandise there.
13. You go to an art festival on Westheimer and you're almost run down by two hand- holding cross dressers on roller blades.
14. The "Killer Bees" are not stinging insects, but rather members of the Houston Astros.
15. You hear everything but English spoken when you go to the Galleria to window shop.
16. You know that "Dad gummit" has nothing to do with your father's failure to practice good dental hygiene.
17. You think "Y'all" is perfectly good usage if you're referring to more than one person.
18. For a Chili Cookoff, you'll use anything from armadillo to frog's legs, but you know that the only GOOD chili is made with chopped (not ground) beef, and it has NO beans and NO tomatoes.
19. Spring is not the season, Katy is not the lady, and 1960 is not the year.
20. Society matrons of "a certain age" still sport big hair and faces that have gone east, west, and north rather than south.
21. You can leave your house, head out of town, and an hour later you still haven't left the city limits (during rush hour, you haven't left your NEIGHBORHOOD).
22. You've never seen I-45 in any condition other than under construction, and you've lived here for 20-30 years.
23. If the humidity is below 90 percent, it's a GOOD hair day.
24. You know that "Clutch City" has nothing to do with automobile transmissions.
25. The Dream" is not a fantasy.
26. The only REAL Mexican food is Tex-Mex.
27. A 747 with the Space Shuttle riding piggyback has actually flown low right overhead, and nobody paid any attention to it.
28. You know that while saving you money, "Mattress Mac" has amassed more than the U.S. treasury.
29. You're happy to have beaten Los Angeles out of a football team, but you'd rather they keep the title of "Smog Capital."
30. You see nothing unusual about an eighty-something former sheriff's deputy who wears a white pompadour toupee and blue sunglasses, mispronounces names, allows televising of his frequent plastic surgeries, seems unnaturally obsessed with slime in the ice machine, and SCREAMS, "MAR-VIN ZIND-ler, EYE-witness news" into a television camera every night.

[lifesaver]

Originally posted by SATX*APhi
You know you are from San Antonio if....

34. You've ever been to Midget Mansion.

Bitch, you know I live three blocks from there, lol. Dont hate on the Mansion.

Adri, I love you for posting these. You know I am forwarding the Houston one to Megan. I Especially like the roach part. Thats so her....

[aggieAXO]

Originally posted by SATX*APhi
You know you are from San Antonio if....

1. You know how to get to the "Ghost Tracks" from anywhere in town.
2. You think "pro-choice" means "flour tortillas or corn tortillas."
3. You've never been to the Alamo.
4. You think being able to read the Taco Cabana menu makes you bilingual.
5. You think a health drink is a Margarita without salt.
6. You used to live in a neighborhood you wouldn't even drive through now.
7. There has been a road crew on your street since before the Alamodome was built.
8. You remember when Crossroads mall used to be called Wonderland.
9. Playland Park...enough said!!!
10. You remember when KTSA was the #1 station in town.
11. You know Dan Cook coined the phrase "It ain't over 'till the fat lady sings."
12. Your idea of culture is wearing a Spurs t-shirt.
13. You think the last supper was at Mi Tierra restaurant.
14. You do your shopping at the Flea Market.
15. You have three rodeo outfits but never have been on a horse.
16. Your subwoofer has twice the value of your car.
17. You remember the Captain Gus show.
18. Your white mother learned how to make tamales and menudo from your neighbors.
19. You take your vacation during Fiesta.
20. You've ordered Mexican food at a Chinese restaurant.
21. You ever went to get breakfast tacos at Taco Cabana on Christmas morning.
22. You remember the Joske's Christmas display.
23. You remember Joske's period.
24. You know that Wheatley and Brackenridge is the same school.
25. You know who plays in the Chili Bowl and the Gucci Bowl.
26. You remember TG&Y, Woolworth, Woolco, and Winns.
27. You remember when JCPenny's had a restaurant.
28. You remember Dillard's on the south side.
29. You learned to drive at Espada Park.
30. You ever went swimming at Espada Park.
31. You ever had an elephant ride at the zoo.
32. You remember hamburgers at Whopper Burger.
33. You know all about the "Dancing Diablo" and the "Donkey Lady" bridge.
34. You've ever been to Midget Mansion.
35. You remember the Toros.
36. You remember the parade sniper.
37. You know that the Alamo is one of the 5 missions in town.
38. Your senior trips were to either Astroworld or Six Flags.
39. Someone in your family has worked for H-E-B.
40. You know 1604 is also known as the "death loop".
41. You remember when Ingram mall wasn't even there.
42. You remember when loop 410 was the outskirts of town.

Some of these bring back fond memories. I remember the ghost tracks and calling the donkey lady. I often shopped at Joske's and we spent a great deal of time at Playland Park(is it still around?) I also shopped at Winn's all of the time and still have some cheap jewelry from there. My uncle use to do all of the electrical work for HEB. I am not familiar with Espada park.
My white mom does make the best mexican rice and refried beans. She always judges a mexican food restaurant by its rice. And, I do remember the parade sniper.

[aggieAXO]

Originally posted by SATX*APhi
You know you are from Houston when...

30. You see nothing unusual about an eighty-something former sheriff's deputy who wears a white pompadour toupee and blue sunglasses, mispronounces names, allows televising of his frequent plastic surgeries, seems unnaturally obsessed with slime in the ice machine, and SCREAMS, "MAR-VIN ZIND-ler, EYE-witness news" into a television camera every night.

I use to watch this guy in College Station-what a character

[epchick]

Originally posted by SATX*APhi
You know you are from Houston when...

26. The only REAL Mexican food is Tex-Mex.

Blasphemy!!! That is pure Blasphemy...lol. I remember my mom, dad, cousin and I were traveling to Dallas for a competition and as we passed through Midland we were craving some Mexican Food...so we stopped that this place that said AUTHENTIC MEXICAN FOOD. *Note: if a restaurant says that (unless ur in El Paso) don't believe it, its not* I've never seen a quesadilla made with tosada chips and Velveeta cheese. SOOOOO TERRIBLE!! Made me miss El Paso soo much, and I thought that would NEVER happen.

[SATX*APhi]

Originally posted by aggieAXO
Some of these bring back fond memories. I remember the ghost tracks and calling the donkey lady.

Call me a big chicken, but I have never gone to the ghost tracks and never will. I am a huge scaredy cat.

[lifesaver]

Originally posted by SATX*APhi
Call me a big chicken, but I have never gone to the ghost tracks and never will. I am a huge scaredy cat.

Saw one of the undergrads with talcum powder all over the back of his car and just looked at him and asked, "ghost tracks?" and he responded, "yep." lol.

[SATX*APhi]

Originally posted by lifesaver
Saw one of the undergrads with talcum powder all over the back of his car and just looked at him and asked, "ghost tracks?" and he responded, "yep." lol.

HELL NO!! I'm scared just thinking about it!

[lifesaver]

The little handprints were all over the back of the truck too.

Creepy.

[lonestaradpi]

Oh Man, I really love these. I haven't lived in SA for all of my life, but I do know of alot of these. It could have to do with living in Texas all my life! Now if I can do a "You know your from the Valley"! I will try to work on one for my hometown! Thanks!