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I’ve lived in Texas for almost three months now and it\u2019s true what they say, Texans are friendly.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Total strangers strike up conversations with Carolann and me everywhere we go. This is a sharp contrast to living in California where strangers don\u2019t generally speak to each other except rarely and briefly to request and impart some specific information such as directions to a particular street. These exchanges are always short and businesslike. They rarely blossom into conversation.<\/p>\n

Texans don\u2019t need any such pretense to launch into idle and often very personal chit-chat. You can be standing in a line at the supermarket and suddenly find yourself swapping family secrets with three or four people, all of you strangers to each other. By the time you leave the checkstand you\u2019ve exchanged names and maybe pie recipes.<\/p>\n

Texans also have a great and dry sense of humor, intentional or not.<\/p>\n

I had only been here a couple of weeks when I went for a haircut and mentioned all of this to the very young woman cutting my hair.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really like Texas and the people I\u2019ve met here,\u201d I told her.<\/p>\n

As she snipped around the edges of my head she gave me the following words of greenhorn wisdom in a cute and\u00a0perky Southern accent:<\/p>\n

<\/a>\u201cPeople say Texans are friendly,\u201d she began, \u201cand it\u2019s true, we are friendly but we expect y’all to take care of y’alls own bidness.”<\/p>\n

Then, with\u00a0a drawl\u00a0so sweet and thick you could pour it on a waffle, she explained,\u00a0“Texans will give you the shirt off their backs or a meal and bed at the drop of a hat but if ya\u2019ll step into the street without lookin\u2019 we will<\/em> run you over!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a9 D.L. Williams 2012<\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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