[CedarDave]

While we're waiting here are some things we in NM know, but others do not:

You know you're from New Mexico when:

• You buy green chili the bushel and red chili by the gallon
• You have a bottle of Holy Dirt in your night stand drawer.
• You are still using the paper license tag that came with your car five years ago.
• Your favorite restaurant has a chili list instead of a wine list.
• You do all your shopping and banking at a drive-up window.
• Your Christmas decorations include a yard of sand and 200 paper bags.
• You have license plates on your walls, but not on your car.
• Most restaurants you go to begin with 'El' or 'Los'.
• You remember when Santa Fe was not like San Francisco .
• You hated Texans until the Californians moved in.
• The tires on your roof have more tread than the ones on your car.
• You price-shop for tortillas.
• You have an extra freezer just for green chili.
• You think a yellow light means to go faster and a red light is merely a suggestion.
• You don't make eye contact with other drivers because you can't tell how well armed they are just by looking.
• You think six tons of crushed rock makes a beautiful front lawn.
• You ran for state legislature so you can speed legally.
• You have read a book while driving from Albuquerque to Las Vegas.
• You have used aluminum foil and duct tape to repair your air conditioner.
• You think you know how to drive in the rain or snow.
• There is a piece of a UFO displayed in your home.
• You know that The Jesus Tortilla is not a band.
• You wish you had invested in the orange barrel business and shovels.
• You just got your fifth DWI and got elected to the state legislature in the same week.
• Your swamp cooler got knocked off your roof by a gust of wind.
• You have been on TV more than three times telling about how your neighbor was shot or about your alien abduction.
• You can actually hear the Taos hum.
• All your out-of-state friends and relatives visit in October.
• You know Vegas is a town in the northeastern part of the state and not in Nevada.
• You are afraid to drive through Mora and Espanola.
• You iron your jeans to 'dress up'.
• Your other vehicle is also a pick-up truck.
• Two of your cousins are in Santa Fe, one in the legislature and the other in the state pen.
• You know the punch line to at least one Espanola joke.
• Your car is missing a fender or bumper.
• You have driven to an Indian Casino at 3 AM because you were hungry.
• You're relieved when the pavement ends because the dirt road has fewer pot-holes.
• You can correctly pronounce Tesuque, Cerrillos, and Pojoaque
• You have been told by at least one out-of-state vendor that they are going to charge you extra for international' shipping.
• When you go out of state, people ask you if you have a green card.
• You expect to pay more if your house is made of mud and straw.
• You can order your Big Mac with green chili.
• You see nothing odd when, in the conversations of the people in line around you at the grocery store, every other word of each sentence alternates between Spanish and English.
• You associate bridges with mud, not water.
• You know you will run into at least 3 cousins whenever you shop at Wal-Mart, Sam's or Home Depot.
• Tumbleweeds and various cactus in your yard are not weeds. They are your lawn.
• If you travel anywhere, no matter if just to run to the gas station, you must bring along a bottle of water and some moisturizer.

[angcat]

I would love to visit one day.

[RayofHope]

Lest we forget that in chili season Walmart has chili roasters in front of their stores and sell them by the sack full......

[hoosiermama]

Am laughing more with each line

One of the few state I’ve not visited
But I get a very vivid picture .......

[DollyCali]

Cute. Thanks

[Yaelle]

Love it. Green chili! What about Walter White?

[Jane Long]

As a kid, we lined our entire yard with luminarios, at Christmas. Now, I/we just line the entry way with them.