In a message dated 9/26/99 4:33:09 PM Central Daylight Time, PBurks5101@aol.com writes: << Fixin - I don't know where it came from but seems all of us from Texas are "Fixin to" do something >> For a time we had a young man from NY City living with us. When I called him to supper and told him to fix his plate, he always replied "Is it broken?" I told him he was a smart mouthed yankee. He almost went into shock when he saw my husband crumbling his cornbread into his milk. We learned a lot from each other.