Topic: Things we learn from living in Florida!!~~
Redsoxfan1's photo
Wed 09/16/09 08:21 AM
Edited by Redsoxfan1 on Wed 09/16/09 08:22 AM
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 Florida .
There are 10,000 types of spiders. All
10,000 live in Florida, 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 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!
Backwards 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'll probably have 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 four spices: salt, pepper,
Pepper Sauce 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 is '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.

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Wed 09/16/09 08:30 PM
pretty close, there's five spices...you forgot the Sweet Baby Ray's.

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Wed 09/16/09 09:35 PM
Well at least you don't have spiders that take 2 hands to pick up.
Or a Scorpion that you can put on a leash. (Texas)

I'm familiar with the 3 inch Cockroaches, dog eating Alligators, etc.
Once I went fishing in Fla and had to wear a face mask so I wouldn't breathe in the Mosquitoes.

> You'll probably have to switch from 'heat' to 'A/C' in the same day.
Same in TX, but the AC was on in the morning, the heat is needed by afternoon.

>Possums sleep in the middle of the road with their feet in the air.
Armadillos do the same thing.

>People actually grow and eat okra.
Delicacy: Boiled Okra with Tomatoes.

musiqfreak's photo
Wed 09/16/09 10:29 PM
oh em effin gosh! that is some funny ish right there!
---miami fl

MirrorMirror's photo
Sat 09/19/09 08:41 AM

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 Florida .
There are 10,000 types of spiders. All
10,000 live in Florida, 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 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!
Backwards 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'll probably have 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 four spices: salt, pepper,
Pepper Sauce 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 is '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.
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