I tell folks we've had 6 weeks of 100 degree (plus) days with no rain; and we are about to enter our hot dry months...
Yeah, I put a thermometer in my shop when I first moved in...after the first summer, I covered it up with some old car parts because feeling the heat is one thing, but having that number in your head while feeling it, just makes it worse. I haven't looked at it since winter, and I don't think I'll look at it again til next winter.
Well I just came in from the shop, who do I shoot first. My trigger finger is itching. I'm about to freaking snap. 119 degrees today. BEER! I hate looking at the thermometer too.
Amen, Buddy. I have Mexican friends who say the humidity in East Texas is worse than any heat in Mexico. Me two cents.
Aw **** guys ac your shops and piss off your old lady some more !!Texas is great taxes are not that bad !! Try you some california !! People here help each other and we just whup the ***holes!! So quit your *****ing get some ice water get back after it .Be thankful you live in a great place. And there is some good tin around here to.14 miles to the beer store mostly straight road
"And I looked at her and said just one word....'TEXAS'...where the roads go on forever"......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................
the only thing great about texas is its cheap to live always had to sell my old cars in california to pay the bills here i get to keep my **** i guess if i wasnt born and raised in so-cal this place would be pretty cool
We even have our own music. Come to Austin and bar hop all night listening to Texas Blues....spawned by the likes of ZZTOP, SRV, etc. If you listen closely it sounds like the timing is a little late. It's actually part of the style.....showing Texas "ownership" of the melody.
It's a world all our own. The rest of the planet is just incomplete. I will say, with weeks of 100+ degree temps already, 90 degree beer is still cold!
SO TRUE... that ya'll know you're from TX if.... You can properly pronounce Corsicana, Ennis, Waxahachie, Palestine, Decatur, Wichita Falls, San Antonio, Waco, and Amarillo. A tornado warning siren is your signal to go out in the yard and look for a funnel. Someone you know has used a football schedule to plan their wedding date. You aren't surprised to find movie rental, ammunition, and bait all in the same store. A Mercedes Benz is not a status symbol. A Chevy 3500 4×4 is. Waving to strangers on the side of the street is common You know everything goes better with Ranch Dressing. You know what a real steak tastes like... CERTIFIED ANGUS BEEF!!! You plan your Friday night after you go to the high school football game. You get annoyed when people from the north give you **** for using y’all, we all know Y’ALL are just jealous. You know someone who ate the 72 oz steak and got it for free. You prefer Whataburger to McDonalds. You can drive all day (and more) and never leave the state. You know that DQ = Texas Stop Sign. Your biggest bicycle wreak fear is, "What if I get knocked out and end up lying on the pavement and cook to death?" Your seatbelt makes a good branding iron. You can cook your eggs and bacon on the hood of your car... in the shade. You know everything is bigger in Texas. You can fix anything with Duct Tape. Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to p*** a tractor on the highway. "Vacation" means going to the family reunion. You measure distance in hours. You know several people who have hit a deer. Your school cl***es were canceled because of inch of snow. You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day. You see people wearing boots and jeans at funerals. You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it, no matter what time of the year. You use "fix" as a verb. Example: I am fixing to go to the store. You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked. You think of the major four food groups as beef, pork, beer, and Jell-O salad with marshmallows. You carry jumper cables in your car ... for your OWN car. You know what "cow tipping" and "snipe hunting" is. You think everyone from a bigger city has an accent. The local papers covers national and international news on a quarter page but requires 6 pages for sports. You think that the first day of deer season is a national holiday. You know that 90 degrees is a cool front in July and August. You know all four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, Still Summer, and Deer Season. You know that in order for a place to be considered a town, it has to have a DQ, Sonic, and a WalMart. You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good chili eatin weather. A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola, or pop ... it's a Coke, regardless of brand or flavor. You recognize that beans and cornbread is a meal that must have been bestowed upon the people by the Lord Himself. You can be satisfied with a meal consisting only of a hunk of bread with flavored flour and milk (a delicacy known as "biscuits n' gravy"). Dr Pepper is the best thing in the world. You understand these jokes. Finally you are 100% Texan if you have ever heard this conversation: "You wanna coke?" "Yeah." "What kind?" "Dr Pepper." You know what a Dublin Dr Pepper is. You've been tubing down the Guadalupe You've rented a tube to float down the Guadalupe.... for your beer cooler You've floated you beer in the Guadalupe to keep it cold. You've seen a sign on a restraunt window, forbbiding you to bring guns inside You can drive 75 or 80 down the highway and you STILL have people yellin for you to get out of the way You've seen a gun behind the seat of a pickup truck You consider everyone that lives in states north of Texas to be yankees. See ya'll.
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and she said "what?" and I said "Texas. and she said "what?" and I said "Texas! They gotta lotta roads out there...."
After reading all these hot comments, I have one thing to say...I'm still glad to be born and raised in Texas. I've traveled and worked in over 40 states in this great country but I never really feel comfy until I see the "Welcome to Texas" sign at the borders. Ahhh. Damn, going to Cali on Sept. Maybe I''l take a few extra bucks and give to the Governator. I tink Mommy left one of my diapers hangin' out da winder at St. Joseph's hospital in Hou town. Mikey www.MikeysPinstriping.com "does bad things to non-Texans"
I'll just be honest.... I have lived in Texas for two years. Before that I lived in Oklahoma for 5, and Arizona for about 20 years. I haven't enjoyed it that much. But it has little to do with Texas, more to do with my cir***stances... meeting HAMBers has really helped, lots of good folks here. Ok, group therapy over...
Born and raised here! Something about that stuff.....yuck. I can maybe stomach one or two a year. I drink Pepsi I also.....don't own a gun. I own 3 trucks but they are all lower than stock, not higher. I've never been hunting. And I don't give a damn about football. But I love Texas.
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