Things I have learned living in ARKANSAS
1. Possums and armadillos sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.
2. There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in ARKANSAS .
3. There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000
live in ARKANSAS plus a couple no one's seen before.
4. If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.
5. Onced and twiced are words.
6. It is not a shopping cart; it is a buggy.
7. Fire ants consider your flesh as a picnic.
8. People actually grow and eat okra.
9. Fixinto is one word.
10. There is no such thing as
"lunch". There is only dinner and then there is supper.
11. Ice tea is appropriate for all meals, and you
start drinking it when you're two. We do like a little tea with our sugar!
12. Backards and forwards means "I know everything about you."
13. Jeet? is actually a phrase meaning "Did you eat?"
14. You don't have to wear a watch because it doesn't matter what time it is. You work until you' re done or it's too dark to see.
15. You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH them.
YOU KNOW YOU'RE FROM ARKANSAS IF:
1. You measure distance in minutes.
2. You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
3. You use "fix" as a verb. Example: "I'm fixing to go to the store "
4. All the festivals across the state are named
after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect, or animal. SERIOUSLY!
5. You install security lights on your house and
garage and leave both unlocked.
6. You know what a "DAWG" is.
7. You carry jumper cables in your car...for your OWN car.
8. You only own four spices: salt, pepper, Tabasco and ketchup. (Can't forget the Cavender's too)
9. The local papers cover national and
international news on one page but require 6 pages for local gossip and sports.
10. You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday. (It still warrants a day out of school in some districts!)
11. You find 100 degrees Fahrenheit "a little warm".
12. You know all four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, still Summer and Christmas.
13. You know whether another ARKIE is from north or south as soon as they open their mouth.
14. Going to Wal-mart is a favorite pasttime known as goin' Wal-martin or off to Wally World.
15. You describe the first cool snap (below 70
degrees) as good pinto-bean weather.
16. 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?"
17. Fried catfish is the other white meat.
18. We don't need no stinking driver's ed....if our mama says we can drive, we can drive.
