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05-05-2009, 03:23 AM
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Your office is a double wide? Were all the buildings in Texas driven or pulled to their address?
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All but the Alamo...and they trashed IT, too! 
HaHa.... and they thought "Earthgirls were easy!" 
I don't even want to SUGGEST that the only "foundations" in Texas are RELIGIOUS ones! 
Or that the only WOOD in Texas is.... "where WOOD that be?" 
HaHa.... I KID Texans.....cuz it's so easy! But, I love 'em!
I have a niece who was born there. She lives there now, again. She just recently had a baby...whom she named HARPER for some reason... and I love them both.
I spent 4 or 5 of my most "formative" years there.... near the Red River. I discovered "wimmin" there!  
Texans are ALL RIGHT by me! (Heck, they're ALL "right" anyways!) 
Hell, if it weren't for Texans, we'd have to make fun of.... um.... ALASKANS! 
Sarah Palin said: "I can see Russia from my HOUSE!" 
Heck, MOST Texans can see MEXICO from their house! 
Does anybody know why Texas IS the "Lone Star State?"
I bet GMAN does!
Make no mistake, folks. I KID Texans cuz I CAN! But, there is NO OTHER American that I would want to "have my back" than a TEXAN! It IS a special state. They ARE special people. PATRIOTS.... every ONE of them!
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05-05-2009, 02:31 PM
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Yeah, I made it Bel!! But MAN are my puppies tired! There wasn't a single trucker between Lubbock and NC that would give me a ride! And I don't understand it....cuz I offered every ONE of them a cold beer! |
Dang, Hobo...I was going to say..."You know I would have given you a ride" but I figured I'd get all kinds of obscene comments. I was at the Flying J at Lubbock a bunch of times over the last few weeks.
I saw the same dude on the same corner panhandling everyday. I was drilling out by the Police Impound yard and there are some abandoned building where homeless people crash. I would see him every morning as I was driving up...I'm sure the drillers woke him up. I saw someone give him some money one day when they were stopped at the light, then I saw him again as I was getting field supplies...he was walking to the flashy new Overton Wal-Mart. Maybe they just want to eat what they like. He wasn't buying a brush/comb or clothes. At least he was buying food at Wal-Mart and not at the Flying J.
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05-05-2009, 05:08 PM
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Your office is a double wide? Were all the buildings in Texas driven or pulled to their address?
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I dunno.
Yes. Our office is a double wide. It's not what you think though. It's just open inside. No walls, except for the restroom. On one end, is where the drivers have their desks, etc, and the other end is where the sales people are. |
05-05-2009, 05:22 PM
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I was at the Flying J at Lubbock a bunch of times over the last few weeks. I saw the same dude on the same corner panhandling everyday.
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Our warehouse is right behing the flyin hook. Are you talking about that guy that always wears a pair of coveralls? No matter what the weather is, he's wearing his coveralls. He stands at the intersection of I-27/HWY 82. He's usually somewhere under the overpass right there. |
05-05-2009, 08:09 PM
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Our warehouse is right behing the flyin hook. Are you talking about that guy that always wears a pair of coveralls? No matter what the weather is, he's wearing his coveralls. He stands at the intersection of I-27/HWY 82. He's usually somewhere under the overpass right there.
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Is his hair is crazy and gray?
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05-05-2009, 08:52 PM
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It kinda looks like Willie Nelson's hair, except it looks like it's been a while since he's washed it. |
05-06-2009, 07:31 PM
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That's him. Poor guy. But he's scary looking! I hate to drive by and do nothing but I figured he wouldn't want my Weight Watchers lunch or Powerade Zero...and I never carry cash.
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05-07-2009, 05:35 PM
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Yeah, it's weird how he just hangs out right there. I don't think I've seen him at the truck stop.
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05-07-2009, 06:06 PM
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As I sit looking all around,
Confusion and uncertainty is all I found.
The answers are there,
But I do not know where.
Optimistic and hopeful dreams,
Are all I have so it seems.
The future I do not know,
So all I can do is take it slow.
But I do know it will work out,
So I wait and watch without a doubt.
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05-24-2009, 03:05 AM
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i give every once in a while, if i really believe the person, but most of the time i dont
if they say they need money for gas i will say yea ill fill up my jug and take you to your car...most of the time they say oh you cant do that....they probably just want liquor
i grew up and live in the inner city ive dealt with beggers all my life
we get the people who give u the card that says they are deaf.....theres a good way to test if they are really deaf but i wont say it, cuz i dont want to get banned on my first post |
05-29-2009, 12:03 AM
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Just gave a guy 2 bags of corn flakes. Of course, I found them behind my trailer when I parked here. The cardboard boxes got rained on, but the plastic bags inside were still in one piece with no holes. (Neighbor's dog goes nuts over corn flakes, so I thought it might enjoy these too.) There were 6 of them, and a couple of "Honey Bunches of Oats".
" What am I going to do with these?"
I put salt on them and use them for Doritos Chips with beer.
He handed them back and shook his head.
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05-31-2009, 05:23 PM
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If there is only one begger I just tell them I did not vote for Obama ,and please go away b4 I call the police ...However If there are 2 or more beggers I proposition that they fight each other for a caqsh purse of $20.00 pluse a bottle of thunderbird. Atleast rim polishers offer a service for the money they are attempting to obtain from me .
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06-21-2009, 03:52 AM
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It dawned on me one day that...these are the same people that pound on your truck
at 3:00 am and wake you up begging or telling a sad story.
Giving them money or goods only encourages them to wake you up in the middle of the night.
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I tell them "I didn't have fun makin then so I aint takin care of them"'Had a guy who told me you don't understand i gonna get a dollar or something and I took my pilot pen and stabbed him.This was t the Petro in Alanta 2004.I've been known to beat some ass for gettin woke up by beggars and diesel pukes honking their horn for no good reason!I don't threaten no one and am a respectful person and will help out a ligit fellow driver or help change a tire on a 4 wheeler.
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