School is just about to start back up for Kiddo, so I took my family on a vacation/road trip to Sea World this week. I drove from Dallas to Austin, then Austin to San Antonio and I can say unequivocally that driving through Texas like taking the scenic route through an inbred meth head’s nightmare. Every square inch of the state that isn’t a major metroplex is a terrifying decent into a rust, decay, poverty and racism… by which I mean “quaint.” Texas is an extraordinarily “quaint” game of connect the dots, where the dots are cities with more than a million people, and the lines are squalid shitholes full of miserable people from a time thankfully gone by. Also there’s usually really big truck stop. The kind that is also a grocery store and a chicken restaurant and a place to buy drugs and CB radio parts and parking lot sex from parking lot sex-ladies. QUAINT, I tell ya. Quaint as all get out.
Thanks to @nmrjess for inspiring the Dairy Queen bit.
COMMENTERS: What’s the most “quaint” place you’ve ever lived/been to?
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MY WIFE KEEPS MAKING AWESOME STUFF! My wife has a super cool, ultra geeky jewelry shop on Etsy. You can see her Tetris necklace andt the just announced Harry Potter inspired Quidditch necklace. Check out dat Quaffle!
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lebbrin· 96 weeks ago
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@bpmann · 96 weeks ago
thelogos · 96 weeks ago
Khel · 96 weeks ago
@MrEntity · 96 weeks ago
Stephen · 96 weeks ago
The quiddich necklace would make a fantastic present for my sister. How much is she asking for them?
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hijinksensue· 96 weeks ago
Stephen · 96 weeks ago
Miles · 96 weeks ago
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Bruceski · 96 weeks ago
My brother crossed TX and OK on his way to college, he says it’s what Hell must look like. Endless flat with nothing to distract the eye.
DetailBear· 96 weeks ago
Zee · 96 weeks ago
Larry · 96 weeks ago
@NMRJess · 96 weeks ago
My husband is from Texas and has/had family in San Antonio, McAllen, Houston and Victoria and friends in Austin, Corpus and Waco. Those long drives are their own special Texas experience.
Dio · 95 weeks ago
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hijinksensue· 95 weeks ago
@kellyskritters · 95 weeks ago
My basic rule is “if there is a waffle house you’ll be ok.” And if there isn’t, just slide the best of wafflehouse jukebox into your mobile player and enjoy the tunes: http://www.amazon.com/Waffle-House-Jukebox-Favori…
pete · 95 weeks ago
furrbear· 95 weeks ago
As someone who’s lived in Southern California for several decades – to be more specific, the Greater Los Angeles Metro Sprawl [yes, that’s right – the G.L.A.M.S.] – I don’t put up with much attitude from people who live places that are flat and boring. If I feel like it, I can go to the beach and a ski resort in the same day … and weather that makes them both pleasant is not exactly uncommon.
Baskerville · 31 weeks ago
A LIVE TARANTULA. IN SOME TUPPERWARE.