You Know You’re From Oklahoma If…

  • A tornado warning siren is your signal to go out in the yard and look for a funnel.
  • You have used the phrase “fixin’ to” during the last 12 months.
  • Someone you know has used a football schedule to plan their wedding date.
  • You’ve ever been excused from school because “the cows got out.”
  • You can properly pronounce Eufaula, Gotebo, Okemah and Chickasha.
  • You can remember the name of the last state legislator to introduce a bill involving castration, and he didn’t mean farm animals.
  • You know exactly what calf fries are, and eat them anyway.
  • You can recall hot summers by the year they happened easier than you can remember your mother’s birthday.
  • You think that people who complain about the wind in other states are sissies.
  • It doesn’t bother you to use an airport named for a man who died in an airplane crash.
  • You have owned at least one belt buckle bigger than your fist.
  • A bad traffic jam involves two cars staring each other down at a four-way stop, each determined to be the most polite and let the other go first.
  • You know in which state Miam-uh is and in which state Miam-ee is.
  • Your “place at the lake” has wheels under it.