Things I Have Learned From Living In Arkansas
I received and email from a friend the other day entitled, "Things I have Learned From Living In Arkansas". I found it to be extremely entertaining because so many of them I have found to be true, especially the longer I live here. I am not sure if you all will find it as entertaining... you might have to be an official Arkansonian to appreciate the humor in it all, but I thought I would share anyways. If any one would like to experience the wonderful reality of these statements you are always welcome to come for a visit, there are plenty of spiders I would be happy to send home with you! We have great accommodations at lovely redneck resort (shown above) that I can reserve a room for you at... just let me know!
Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.
There are 5,000 types of snakes on earth and 4,998 live in Arkansas .
There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in Arkansas plus a couple no one's seen before.
If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.
Onced and Twiced are words.
It is not a shopping cart; it is a buggy.
People actually grow and eat okra.
"Fixinto" is one word.
There is no such thing as "lunch." There is only dinner and then there is supper.
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!
Backards and forwards means "I know everything about you.
"DJeet? is actually a phrase meaning "Did you eat?"
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.
You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH them.
You measure distance in minutes.
You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
"Fix" is a verb. Example: "I'm fixing to go to the store."
All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.
You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
You carry jumper cables in your car . . . for your OWN car.
There are only own four spices: salt, pepper, Tabasco and ketchup.
The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local gossip and sports.
The first day of deer season is a national holiday.
100 degrees Fahrenheit "a little warm.
We have four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, still Summer and Christmas.
Going to Wal-mart is a favorite past time known as "goin' Wal-martin" or off to "Wally World."
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.
Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.
There are 5,000 types of snakes on earth and 4,998 live in Arkansas .
There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in Arkansas plus a couple no one's seen before.
If it grows, it sticks; if it crawls, it bites.
Onced and Twiced are words.
It is not a shopping cart; it is a buggy.
People actually grow and eat okra.
"Fixinto" is one word.
There is no such thing as "lunch." There is only dinner and then there is supper.
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!
Backards and forwards means "I know everything about you.
"DJeet? is actually a phrase meaning "Did you eat?"
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.
You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH them.
You measure distance in minutes.
You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
"Fix" is a verb. Example: "I'm fixing to go to the store."
All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect or animal.
You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
You carry jumper cables in your car . . . for your OWN car.
There are only own four spices: salt, pepper, Tabasco and ketchup.
The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local gossip and sports.
The first day of deer season is a national holiday.
100 degrees Fahrenheit "a little warm.
We have four seasons: Almost Summer, Summer, still Summer and Christmas.
Going to Wal-mart is a favorite past time known as "goin' Wal-martin" or off to "Wally World."
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.
(If you need any further explanation on a particular one, just let me know)
Funny story... we have actually fed our baby Okra. We were given some that came packaged frozen (like you would buy peas or corn). So we blended it up to see if Kendall would eat it. It looked like snot! He didn't mind it when he was first starting vegetables, but now I think he knows better and is not interested in at all.
you crack me up! that's too funny, my mom and grandma call walmart wallyworld too. weird?!
Hey Chica! Sorry - it's been so long since I've called you! Can I just say that we love the blue striped onesie and shorts from Old Navy! Adorable! He looks so cute in them! Thank you so much! We think of you often and wish you were still our neighbors!
Love ya!
Hayley
Haha I do distance in minutes... ;o) Have you had fried frogs legs yet? Actually I had that when I went to Branson, MO...It actually tasted like chicken...it was good! haha ;o)