Now I know I’m not from Oklahoma, but strangely a lot of this is true about me, and I only lived there for a year, hahaha…

You say y’all … many times a day. A little exaggerated, I do say it sometimes though.

Bedlam is a BIG deal. I guess it is to every student who goes/went to OU or OSU. :p

You can tell when it’s tornado weather. I was actually pretty lucky with tornados, but I guess I can.

When you drive through a neighborhood anyone out walking will smile and wave at you. Not really.

You’ve worn flip flops in the winter. Yup.

You have stopped to let a family of deer cross the road. Nope.

You thought the twister ride at Universal Studios wasn’t windy enough. Haven’t been there, but as I said I was pretty lucky with tornados.

You know who your neighbors are, how many children they have, and when one of them gets married or graduates. My neighbors were all students and I actually didn’t know them very well at all. :p

There are at least 2 to 3 Sonics, McDonalds, and Little Ceasars in your town. I believe it’s 7 Sonics, not sure how many McDonalds or Little Cesar, didn’t really go there. I do know Norman has quite a few of them though.

You’ve been off roading - many times. Nope.

You or someone you know was born, raised and still lives in the same town. Not sure, probably not since most of my friends were actually from TX and no one was born in Norman (that I know of).

You know that Miami, Oklahoma and Miami, Florida are pronounced two different ways. I guess now I do. I didn’t even know there was a Miami in OK. :p

You plan events around football games. I did, yup. Seeing as on football Sundays you’d get stuck in traffic for hours.

You are a Cowboy or Sooners fan. Boomer Sooner!

You learned how to do country and western dances at school. We actually did learn line dancing at one school event there. :p

A tornado warning siren is your signal to go out in the yard and look for a funnel. I can’t remember ever hearing it, which is strange as they’re supposed to have training alarms once a month or so.

You can properly pronounce Eufaula, Gotebo, Okemah and Chickasha. Maybe.

You can remember the name of the last state legislator to introduce a bill involving castration, and he didn’t mean farm animals. Nope.

You know exactly what calf fries are, and eat them anyway. Nope.

You think that people who complain about the wind in other states are sissies. Haha, I can’t say a tornado hit Norman while I was there, so I wouldn’t.

It doesn’t bother you to use an airport named for a man who died in an airplane crash. I didn’t know that!

You have owned at least one belt buckle bigger than your fist. Nope, never owned a belt buckle actually. :p

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. Hahaha, I have never been in a traffic jam in OK, I guess that is true.

It doesn’t seem odd to see the term “chicken fried chicken” on a menu. I remember seeing that, wasn’t too weird.

You save all your life for your dream vacation, and use it to go to the OU/Texas game. Nope, I would’ve loved to go to the game but I didn’t. If I had had the money, yeah…

It doesn’t seem peculiar if your sweetie says “I’m going in to town for something” even though you live in town. I don’t think anyone ever said that. But I guess it wouldn’t seem weird to me, seeing as we say the same thing here and it’s absolutely not weird.

You don’t turn on the news until 20 minutes past the hour, because that’s the only thing you care about anyway. I didn’t watch the news a whole lot, because most was local news (exciting!) and I have no clue what time they came on.

Your quarterback is hurt and it is the top story on the six o’clock news. I don’t remember White being hurt during that year, but it would’ve probably been the top story, haha.

You go to the State Fair for your only vacation. Never went there. Neither the one in OKC nor in Dallas (even though I was there during the time).

You get up at 5:30 A.M. and go to the coffee shop, where the waitress never asks what you would like. She already knows. I don’t get up that early.

You are on a first name basis with the county sheriff. Nope.

You know what the “Sea of Red and White” is. Sure do.

You can drive 80 mph on a two-lane dirt road with one hand, but driving 45 mph on a four-lane expressway in a city scares you to death. Haha, I didn’t drive a whole lot in OK.

You wear cowboy boots to church. Some people do. I wear flip flops to church. :p

You know that everything goes better with Ranch. Most things do.

You learned how to shoot a gun before you learned how to multiply. Nope, but then I didn’t grow up there, right?

“You wanna Coke?” “Yeah.” “What kind?” “Dr. Pepper.” I call it soda, not coke. But I believe I have met people who call it coke.

You know what “Orange Power” and “Crimson & Cream” means. Hell yeah! (Crimson & Cream all the way!)

Katrina has turned into a major hurricane, and my prayers and thoughts are with all people who live in an area that has been or might be hit by the hurricane. It looks like this one will be pretty bad. We can just pray and hope it won’t make landfall in (or hit) New Orleans, that would be a disaster! Be safe!