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Old 08-03-2006, 11:23 AM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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This is just a funny look at Texas in the summertime:

NEW TEXAN'S DIARY

May 30th:
Just moved to Dallas , Texas .
Now this is a city that knows how to live!!
Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. What a place!
I watched the sunset from a park lying on a blanket.
It was beautiful. I've finally found my home. I love it here.

June 14th:
Really heating up. Got to 100 today. Not a problem. Live in an
air-conditioned home, drive an air-conditioned car. What a pleasure to
see the sun everyday like this. I'm turning into a sun worshiper.

June 30th:
Had the backyard landscaped with western plants today. Lots of cactus
and rocks. What a breeze to maintain.
No more mowing lawn for me. Another scorcher today, but I love it here.

July 10th:
The temperature hasn't been below 100 all week. How do people get used
to this kind of heat? At least it's kind of windy though. But getting
used to the heat and humidity is taking longer than I expected.

July 15th:
Fell asleep by the pool. (Got 3rd degree burns over 60% of my body).
Missed 3 days of work What a dumb thing to do. I learned my lesson
though. Got to respect the sun in a climate like this.

July 20th:
I missed Morgan (our cat) sneaking into the car when I left this
morning. By the time I got to the hot car for lunch, Morgan had died
and swollen up to the size of a shopping bag and stank up the $2,000
leather upholstery. I told the kids that she ran away. The car now
smells like Kibbles and sh*ts. I learned my lesson though. No more pets
in this heat.

July 25th:
The wind sucks.. It feels like a giant freaking blow dryer!! And it's
hot as hell. The home air-conditioner is not working and the AC
repairman charged $200 just to drive by and tell me he needed to order
parts.

July 30th:
Been sleeping outside by the pool for 3 nights now. $1,500 in ****
house payments and we can't even go inside. Why did I ever come here?

Aug. 4th:
It's 115 degrees. Finally got the air-conditioner fixed today. It cost
$500 and gets the temperature down to 85, but this freaking humidity
makes the house feel like it's about 95. Stupid repairman. I hate this
stupid city.

Aug. 8th:
If another wise ass asks, "Hot enough for you today? I'm going to
strangle him. **** heat. By the time I get to work the radiator is
boiling over, my clothes are soaking wet, and I smell like baked cat!!

Aug. 9th:
Tried to run some errands after work. Wore shorts, and sat on the black
leather seats in the car. I thought my ass was on fire. I lost 2 layers
of flesh and all the hair on the back of my legs and ass. Now my car
smells like burnt hair, fried ass, and baked cat.

Aug. 10th:
The weather report might as well be a **** recording. Hot and sunny.
Hot and sunny. Hot and sunny. It's been too hot to do stuff for 2 ****
months and the weatherman says it might really warm up next week.
Doesn't ever rain in this **** desert? Water rationing now, so my $1700
worth of cactus just dried up and blew into the **** pool. Even the
cactus can't live in this **** heat.

Aug. 14th:
Welcome to HELL!!! Temperature got to 115 today. Forgot to crack the
window and blew the **** windshield out of the car. The installer came
to fix it and said, "Hot enough for you today? My wife had to spend the
$1500 house payment to bail me out of jail.
Freaking Texas . What kind of a sick demented idiot would want to live
here???
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Old 08-06-2006, 03:56 PM
 
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Thumbs down good riddance

Great! Go back to wherever you are from. I was born and raised in the North and would prefer Texas over anywhere. You do realize that you are including Austin in your anti-Texas comments and Austin is awesome. I suspect the $1,500 mortgage you had in Dallas has now jumped to $3,500 for a home outside of Texas that is probably the size of a shoebox with one microscopic bathroom and a very dated kitchen too disgusting to cook in. I personally enjoy having a huge disposable income so I may invest, vacation, and shop, all the while I enjoy my gigantic "Texas size" gorgeous home with all the bells and whistles.

Yes, Texans are the ones who watch HDTV and laugh at how much others pay for disgusting homes for triple the price outside of Texas.

Best of luck to you.

Respectfully,
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Old 08-07-2006, 06:36 PM
 
Location: East Texas, with the Clan of the Cave Bear
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Nice post RedRover......I've gotten it several times over the years in emails......stll got another chuckle out of it.........Thanks---Bob
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Old 08-07-2006, 09:36 PM
 
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Great! Go back to wherever you are from.
Uh,dude,it's a joke.The first clue was that he related events supposedly happening on August 14 in a post dated August 3.
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Old 08-08-2006, 07:53 AM
 
Location: Brushy Creek
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Actually the first clue was:

Quote:
This is just a funny look at Texas in the summertime:

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Old 08-08-2006, 01:34 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Thanks to all of you who sprang to my defense. Indeed it was a joke and to Mace - where I come from is Houston, Texas. I have lived here for more than 35 years so back off buster. Jeez are you touchy and since when can't a Texan poke fun at Texas?
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Old 08-08-2006, 01:37 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Oh and by the way Mace, I have never lived in Dallas, have never had a $1500 mortgage, I still live in Houston, and evidently the only "big" things about you are your house and your "big" disposable income.
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Old 08-08-2006, 03:20 PM
 
Location: Baytown,Texas
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Default Whiner!

Texas is beautiful, couldn't think of a better place to live. If Redrover can't hang, well man o' man just go back home to where ever it is you came from people born and bred here learn to appreciate life here and the people and the struggles in life not everything is peachy keen! I had a chance to move to California with my company even to Florida but nope wouldn't do it. Money is not an object if you know how to handle your finances, and family comes first to me that is. But anyway I love it here. Just chill, things will get better. It's called adapting.
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Old 08-08-2006, 06:25 PM
 
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If Redrover can't hang, well man o' man just go back home to where ever it is you came from people born and bred here learn to appreciate life here and the people and the struggles in life not everything is peachy keen!
Well,it seems we have more than one humor impaired person here.IT'S A JOKE!

And by the way,mom,if you would read everything,in addition to learning it was a joke,you would have also learned that "where he came from" is Houston.It's in post 6.Did you bother to read post 6?
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Old 08-09-2006, 01:02 PM
 
Location: Houston, TX
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Thanks Lifer, but actually I is a she...


ps Mace & Mom, please don't correct my grammar, I know the correct verb is "am."
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