It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.

[rubykatewriting]

Today is Go Texan Day, the official kickoff of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, or as I like to call it, "Wear random shit that is vaguely western-looking that you wouldn't dare to wear on any other day of the year." I mean, SERIOUSLY. It makes my inner-fashionista do that uppity-sniff/look-down-the-nose thing, but what she really wants to do is curl up in the corner and eat her own hair while rocking back and forth.

And why did I know - did I just know to my very bones - that the story making the rounds about the horse-as-tip was straight out of Texas? Extra bonus that it happened just across town in Sugarland. Yet we're surprised people outside of Texas ask us in all seriousness if we ride our horses to school (true story).

Oh, Texas, never change.

Comments

[ciachick711.livejournal.com]

If you're from Tennessee they ask if you wear shoes and have bathrooms inside, so...

[rubykatewriting.livejournal.com]

*rolls eyes* DUDE. If my poppies heard that, well let's just say he had a temper and he could use it. (He was born and raised in Tennessee.) Of course, we can just rub it in their faces that we get a whole day off to go to a giant fair every year (ours is in Dallas with big ol' Tex).

[ardor-patientia.livejournal.com]

I've been to that show...it was insane. I've never seen so many enormous trucks parked in one place before.

[rubykatewriting.livejournal.com]

HEE. Yep. It's why it still irritates me everytime I'm in the main garage at work because clearly whoever planned it had only recently moved to Texas and did not know that the state car was BIG TRUCKS/SUVs. You will never see so many tight corners or impossibly tiny parking spaces, and *raises angry fist* I just want to make them valet every car that comes into that garage for one day as punishment.

[ardor-patientia.livejournal.com]

I went to Houston & College Station for a conference in college, and the girl from A&M who picked us up from the airport was driving a Ford Escape SUV and kept apologizing for "having such a small car". I LOL'd.

[rubykatewriting.livejournal.com]

Well it is only a MIDSIZE. *snort* Heh. That's hilarious.