To: nikos1121
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.
91 posted on
05/24/2016 11:39:50 AM PDT by
CedarDave
(Obama's America - where the criminals are victims and the police are the criminals.)
To: CedarDave
I would love to visit one day.
92 posted on
05/24/2016 11:40:58 AM PDT by
angcat
(TRUMP!)
To: CedarDave
Lest we forget that in chili season Walmart has chili roasters in front of their stores and sell them by the sack full......
96 posted on
05/24/2016 11:48:10 AM PDT by
RayofHope
(I want to be sick of winning!)
To: CedarDave
Am laughing more with each line
One of the few state I’ve not visited
But I get a very vivid picture .......
97 posted on
05/24/2016 11:49:10 AM PDT by
hoosiermama
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To: CedarDave
101 posted on
05/24/2016 11:52:09 AM PDT by
DollyCali
(Don't Tell God how big your storm is... tell your storm how BIG your God is!)
To: CedarDave
Love it. Green chili! What about Walter White?
102 posted on
05/24/2016 11:57:29 AM PDT by
Yaelle
(Tinkerbelle glittering up the runway for Trump Force One!)
To: CedarDave
As a kid, we lined our entire yard with luminarios, at Christmas. Now, I/we just line the entry way with them.
115 posted on
05/24/2016 12:39:55 PM PDT by
Jane Long
(Go Trump, go! Make America Safe Again :)
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