LadyChallene
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New Mexico...
Things I've learned living in New Mexico:
Rabbits sleep in the middle of the road with all four feet in the air.
There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 live in New Mexico.
There are 10,000 types of spiders. All 10,000 live in New Mexico, plus a few no one has ever seen before.
-If it grows, it will stick you.
-If it crawls, it will bite you.
-There are valid reasons some people put razor wire around their house
-The wind blows at 90 mph from Oct 2 till June 25; then it stops
totally until October 2.
-Onced and twiced are words.
-Coldbeer is one word.
-Green grass DOES burn.
-You measure distance in minutes.
-You can switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day.
-Stores don't have bags they have sacks.
-You see parked cars with the engine running in the Wal-mart parking lot with
no one in it, no mater what time of the year.
-The four seasons are: Almost summer, summer, still summer and
Christmas.
-You use "fix" as a verb. Example: I am fixin'to go to the store.
(note: in The portion above "fix-in-to" is one word....)
-All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, a
vegetable, or balloons
-You carry jumper cables for your own car.
-You know what "cow tipping" and "snipe hunting" are.
-You only have four spices in your kitchen: Salt, Pepper, Catsup, and
Tabasco.
-You think everyone from north of Farmington has an accent.
-Sexy underwear: tee shirt and boxer shorts.
-The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but it requires six pages to cover Friday-night highschool football.
-You find 100 degrees a "tad" warm.
-Going to Wal-mart is a favorite past-time known as "goin Wal-Martin"
or "off to Wally-world."
-You describe the first cool snap (below 70 degrees) as good chili
weather.
-A carbonated soft drink isn't a soda, cola, or pop.... It’s a coke regardless of brand or flavor.
-Cuss, curse... who gives a ___ what you call it? We say words you
won't even understand!
-505 is the area code for our entire state, who else can represent
their whole state with one number? (Update, now we have two for the entire state; 505 and 575, but we didn't need to do it until we were over 300 years old.)
-We have green chili, and we're the ONLY state that does.
-Snow days? We get days off for gang shootings, DUI accidents, high
school hit lists, meth lab busts, bomb threats, homicides, drug
deals.... and for the occasional "winter storm" too. Beat that.
-The only "beach" we go to is The Beach water park, Tingley, Conchas, or
the Butte and they all kick butt!
-If you say "city" you are not referring to anywhere in New Mexico.
-The legal drinking age is 21, but everyone starts at 14.
-Our governor legalized marijuana, so don't even say yours is
cooler.
-I get looked at funny when I'm on vacation because most fools from
the US don't even realize that New Mexico is in the USA...
-All the movie stars might film in Cali, but they come
HERE to live. Val Kilmer, Gene Hackman, Freddie Prince Jr., Julia
Roberts, Randy Travis... and list goes on, all livin' in New Mexico.
-Los Alamos has the highest per capita income in the United States.
Sunland Park has the lowest
-Albuquerque celebrated its Tri-Centennial...we're older than the US of
A.
-Atomic bomb...enough said!
-We got Stealths, so you better watch your back or they might be coming for you next.
-Border Patrol Round-ups are a great way to earn money at family reunions.
-New Mexico is the land of entrapment you come on Vacation and leave on probation!
But I love it here.
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