Fw: Texas Facts

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Amanda" <editor at t...> wrote:

> These were fun. I have inserted commentary.
> Subject: Fwd: Fw: Texas Facts

Mandy, some of them are not ONLY Texas. Armadillos I suppose are only 
Texas, and your explanation of armadillo reproduction made me ROTFL, 
but possums are ubiquitous. Well, I suppose there are parts of Canada 
and Alaska too far North for possums....

It is here in Los Angeles that distance is measured in minutes.

Raccoons used to eat the goldfish out of my late godmother's garden 
pond and deer ate the plants -- I should specify that she was in a 
suburb over 50 years old, not in the country.

Grass is green for three days after each serious rain storm. Rain 
storms only occur during the rainy season, late September through 
March. If they don't occur at all, that is called drought and happens 
altogether too often.

> > 2. You've ever had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
> There are whole months we have to do this, on both ends of summer.

Only the HOTTEST nights of summer don't have those wimps turning on 
the heat, or at least the electric blanket! Only the COLDEST days of 
winter don't require air conditioning around noon!

> > 7. You carry jumper cables in your car ... for your OWN car.
> Um, who else's car would you carry them for?
Is there a place where people don't?

> > 13. You think that the first day of deer season is a national
> > holiday. 
> It's not?
No, only a state holiday... in MANY states. When I went away to 
university, I was amazed that all the midwestern (not Texan) girls 
told me that it was taken for granted that the schools would close on 
the first day of deer season because the male teachers and older boy 
students would take the day off to go hunting anyway.
 
> > 14. You find 100 degrees F "a little warm."
That's someone who lives in the San Fernando Valley, where 105 F is 
a normal summer temperature and there is always a hot spell that 
goes higher. I would NEVER live in the Valley.

> > 22. You find the word dinner confusing - there's only lunch and 
> > then there's supper. 
> Yes. Breakfast --> Lunch --> Supper. A dinner is a formal thing 
> where you have to dress nicely, or have reservations for, or where
> there is an honoree.
Tim, a native-born Angeleno, believed that even when he first moved 
in with me. He acquired this delusion from his mother who was from 
Nebraska.

AARRGGHH!! Your lines are so funny and mine are so not funny!