Posted on 02/11/2014 8:32:21 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Just point out that Alaska is bigger
“Hal Amen”?!?!? Oh, please. And his sister, Jewel Bilation.
Ahhm, that great bastion of Liberalism referred to as "THE University of Texas" (that is what one disgruntled alum of that place called it when he and I talked about it).
"THE University of Texas" is largely foreign to Texas Culture.
There has been a remarkable turn around in people’s attitude toward throwing garbage out your car window in my lifetime. My dad was an early fanatic about that.
This Texan agrees!
But luckily I don’t get too pissed off about these indiscretions, since I live here and no one acts like this.
Except maybe newbies from other states who quickly learn how Texas works.
Confuse Dazavala with Days of Allah.
It’s a San Antonio thing.
I assume this means we're getting more Yankee transplants than ever. I've driven in the Boston and Chicago areas, and the average speed in those places is about 15 mph over the speed limit, with some doing 20 and 30 mph over the speed limit; always amazing that there seems to be no fear of traffic tickets up there.
I'm always the slowest person on the road up north, and now it's slowly moving that direction in Austin.
I hate the trash here in West Texas. It’s everywhere, and nobody has any respect to try to pick up their garbage.
I miss the clean streets back home in Kansas.
It is better in East TX at least.
Hell’s fuzzy, man! Us Texans don’t need you trying to explain our greatness to any foreigners (any other state in US). As long as they stay away thinking we are hicks or nothin is purty here, we get this place all to ourselves!
When I went out to Big Bend, I didn’t see much trash by the roadside. But I did see a Lone Star pre-punch tab top that had been in the dirt for many decades. It was sun bleached on one side, white and red on the dirt side.
His house is a mile from the UT campus?
EEEWWWWWWW!!!!!
I don’t get angry, but I do get amused with people who have no idea how big Texas is. I live in Houston, and a friend from the northeast told me he was going to be in my area for a business trip and we should meet up. Trouble was, he was going to Dallas. That’s about 5 hours away from Houston.
Reading this thread and looked up to note I have 1836 unread e mails. Kind of a nice coincidence, the number that is.
The time I lived in Texas, South of Fort Worth, was sone of best time of my adult life. Met some individuals whom are still very close friends. As they say in Fort Worth, it is where the West begins.
Who knows, maybe I will pull a MacArthur some day and return.
My neighbor, a policeman, one day told me this story: He pulled over a yankee on I-20 for speeding. She did not care, just wanted a picture of him in his “cowboy hat”.
I'm always the slowest person on the road up north, and now it's slowly moving that direction in Austin.
I once got pulled over on a Metrowest Boston road for doing 17 mph over the speed limit. Using my tried and true technique for talking my way out of a traffic ticket, I politely asked the cop: "Do you have any discretion here, officer?"
He replied: "Yes I do. I generally don't pull people over unless they are doing more than 15mph over the speed limit." Then he gave me a ticket.
That's how it is here in Massachusetts -- people routinely go faster than the speed limits (although I now make it a point now to never exceed the speed limit by more than 15mph and haven't had another ticket in the four years since).
Few things are more exasperating than driving on a long, sparsely traveled one-lane road at a normal speed (i.e. 10-15mph over the limit), and suddenly getting stuck behind what I call a "one-car traffic jam" -- namely, some jerk driving the at the speed limit for miles and miles.
It never occurred to me that those kinds of slowpoke drivers might be from Texas. But it would make sense -- I remember the one time I visited east Texas (which I loved, except for those giant man-eating cockroaches you people have down there). Anyway, I had to go to a super market, and the check-out line took forever to move, because the check-out lady was engaging in friendly conversation with every single customer on the line. Charming, I admit, but really frustrating to a Yankee-in-a-hurry like me.
No kidding. I recall a college reunion many moons ago, when I lived in El Paso. A fellow alum remarked, "you must spend quite a bit of time in Dallas."
He was a bit shocked when I told him El Paso is almost as close to Los Angeles as it is to Dallas. In fact, El Paso is virtually equidistant to Houston and Los Angeles.
I guess the don't mess with Texas litter campaign didn't work...Of course illegals are everywhere in Texas too, just don't tell their state cheerleaders that...
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