You know you're in Arkansas when..

• When you find yourself picking up that annoying-yet-kinda-cute Southern accent that only some Arkansans have.
• When everyone you pass in the park says hello.
• When you're driving on an empty back, country road, and an old man working on his tractor waves hello.
• When you drive 7 miles on a dirt and gravel "road" to experience the best waterfall ever.
• When you stop at a gas station in the middle of nowhere lost, and not only does the proprietor give you great directions to said waterfall, but also tells you to come back if you can't find it, because he'll drive you out there himself.
• When a group of college kids all run to their cars to grab their shot guns to shoot a snake that is enjoying a late afternoon swim in YOUR swimming hole.
• Also when one said college student flicks (flips!) off the "dead" snake.
• Also when said college students retrieve said "dead" snake, discover it's not quite dead yet, and they all go off in a hunt for large rocks, which, once found, are used to finish the job.
• When someone at church uses the phrase "You'll be up a creek in a chicken wire canoe".
• When you have a conversation with an older man in the Local section at Borders that starts out with a question about whether or not I've seen a book on rivers in Arkansas, and it turns into a 10 minute conversation about weather and where we're both originally from. His name was Gil. We shook hands.
• there are multiple "Wal-Mart Drives".
• You can drive on back country roads for 3 hours and enjoy every last second of it.