Dallas is a wonderful city with its own unique quirks. While communication is key, and expressing our affection clearly and directly by telling someone “I love you”, it’s not necessarily necessary in Dallas.
Here, in Dallas there are many ways to express our love without saying it outright. If you’re someone that has a hard time with the L word, check out this list of 15 responses to our question “in Dallas we don’t say ‘I love you’ we say ‘___’ that we submitted to you, our readers:
1. I’ll come pick you up from the airport.
2. I’m picking up tacos, how many you want?
3. Do you want to go get Mambo Taxis?
4. Velvet Tacos or Vidorra?
5. Let’s go to Buc-ee’s.
6. I’ll take 635 in the rain for you.
7. 3 am: You want some Fuel City Tacos?
8. I went ahead and ordered some queso and extra chips for us.
9. I brought you Whataburger and remotely started your car so the A/C would be nice and cool.
10. I’ll drive to Ft. Worth and back for you.
11. Bless your heart.
12. I got tickets for the Mavs game.
13. I turned the A/C down for you.
14. Wanna day drink?
15. I paid your parking.
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