Friday, November 30, 2007

Texas Will Be a Nation

In my time in the Navy I learned two things, if nothing else; people enjoy power, and 90% of the population is from Texas. They were room mates, authority figures, classmates, shipmates, bunk mates, everywhere you turn there's a Texan. Needless to say, one would get a little bit tired of being submersed in people from a culture slightly different from their own. A culture that gets freaked out and cries at the site of snow, (I was stationed in Chicago for a time... and yes, that actually happened) has a accent that's apparent enough to make a person want to rip the "yawwwl" out of another person's big Texan head, and a culture that ritualistically dowses everything they plan to consume with texas pete so the food doesn't taste so bland (OK, that was most of the Navy, and understandably so).

I remember one guy that me and my husband could stand, yes, a Texan. *gasp* Jameson was unlike any other of his species: outstanding social graces, stunning articulation, and an all-around stimulating and intellectual. It made all the sense in the world that he was bred from two high-end real-estate specialists in the Dallas area and not FROM Texas. Which brings me to my point: Texas Real Estate. Through many conversations with Jameson I came to realize that one region of the area he grew up in is probably as big as the entire state I knew in loved (Virginia).

Real Estate. Westlake Real Estate, Keller Real Estate, Trophy Club Real Estate, Colleyville Real Estate, Southlake Real Estate... yadda yadda yadda, the only real thing boring about this guy was when you got him on this topic. My mind would wander and I would fantasise about breeding an army of super-humans skilled in the killing tactics of Silat to defend all the other states from vicious attacks of the Texan empire that is rising. I wouldn't need millions of them, just 1 to every couple hundred thousand Texans. It would be like an intense action movie; many would approach, all would be devastated. The war is on the cusp my friends.

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