I love Gigem’s idea about the ol thermostat switcheroo. That is absolutely brilliant.
And I appreciate Cousin Fred affirming what I’ve been saying for years - that North Texas is basically Baja Oklahoma.
When I was a young teenager back in the ‘70s Austin was a quirky little sleepy college town and Dallas was like Hollywood. I’d go up there to visit my cousins and I’d be blown away by its opulence and sophistication. Everything was just so perfectly and successfully pretentious. Expensive cars, trendy clothes, girls and women from 14 to 70 with big hair, fake tits, flawless Mary Kay makeup and eff you attitudes.
Dallas in 1978. You couldn’t buy a cold beer in 7-Eleven but if you knew anybody then someone was bound to offer you a tightly rolled 20 and ask if you wanted a snort.
Somewhere n the ‘90s things kind of changed and Dallas started to become a bigger version of Texarkana, complete with non-Texans of possibly incestuous ancestreal lineages.
Nowadays when I travel, I stay south of an imaginary arc from El Paso through Waco to Houston and send my employees up into the nether regions of the state - unless things go horribly wrong.
Had to go to Longview one week. i swear them crazy East Texans would fry red Kool-Aid if they could figure out how.
Please build the wall 300 miles to the north.
