[UA] Strangeness in Texas?

[Jade Hammons]

I don't think Thuvasa has been to Texas. Or if he was, he was sodomized by a 
trucker in a rest stop and it left him full of hate.

Roads: The problem with Texas' roads is we spend so much on them they are in 
a constant state of repair. You can tell when you leave the state because 
the quality of the roads instantly drops and there is suddenly garbage 
everywhere, but their is notlonger constant road repair slowing you down.

Attitude: Other than the trucker that sodomized him, who was probably from 
Minneapolis or Wisconsin, Texas is one of the only states where drivers 
where _pull off the road_ to let you pass, rather than make you go into a 
possibly dangerous passing zone. Texans have a reputation for being laid 
back and neighborly, it's not a false stereotype. Unless you are here for a 
sports game with a Texas team (and are the opposing side), or you are 
Thuvasa, Texans are generally nice folks. Even for 'outsiders' in small 
towns, though some small towns still pack a load of racisms, but lots of 
small towns in the south still do, so that's hardly abnormal.

However, and this is a Caveat, if his exposure to Texas is Houston, 
everything he said is true. Texas hates Houston. And Houston hates Texas. 
Houston has cockroaches the size of your dog, but only if you have a large 
dog. Many Houstonites will go out of their way to be rude, if they can hold 
up out of town traffic while crossing the street to spit on you, they will. 
If they can spit across the street and hit you and all the the out of town 
cars in the way, even better. After Katrina, Texas took the brunt of the 
Louisiana Expatriates. Many settled in Austin and other cities, some tried 
to settle in Houston, but few were rude enough or thick-skinned enough to 
make it.

If there is a Hell, it's probably not as bad as Houston.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan" <thuvasa3 at yahoo.com>
To: "The Unknown Armies RPG Mailing List" <ua at lists.unknown-armies.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: [UA] Strangeness in Texas?


> Lessee...I've been to Austin once, the Dallas airport,
> and Houston about a hundred times (more like 15,
> honestly) now.  Once, I drove from Kentucky to Texas.
>
> Weird thing that happened to me in Dallas--My wife
> tricked me into going to TX and then suckered me into
> seeing Rascall Flatts at the state fair (in Austin).
> Thus, I went to the fair.  The weird thing though, was
> that our cab driver found out we worked for Social
> Security Disability, went into a paranoid rant about
> it, and then put us out of the cab fairly far from the
> fairground gates because they had cops directing
> traffic and he got paranoid and weird about them. Not
> paranormal or anything, but just something that can
> happen if they need a cab for any reason.
>
> Next, if they're driving, Texas has fairly crappy
> roads.  In other words, it seems like they don't spend
> a lot of money on repaving the highway, and as I
> recall damage has to be pretty bad before it even gets
> a half-hearted patch job.
>
> Also, my personal experience has been that with almost
> no exceptions, white people native to Texas are
> hostile, arrogant, and generally obnoxious. I don't
> know if that counts as a racist statement or not, but
> there you have it.  There was a very clear class
> distinction.  Oh, and as obnoxious as the regular
> people are, the cops are even worse.  You can tell
> they've watched a lot of TV to find out how cops are
> supposed to act.
>
> Texas cities are BIG.  Texas is BIG.  You hit the edge
> of Texas and drive for five hours to get to Houston.
> Texas is a place that fosters anti-environmentalism,
> in part because everything there is so huge that it's
> hard to imagine that something could "run out."
>
> Freeways--Where I'm from, we don't have freeways.  In
> Houston, you have the various interstates, which are
> like a bajillion lanes across, and then to either side
> you have a two to three lane freeway with people
> jumping on and off the freeway and from there on and
> off the interstate near constantly.
>
> Also, in ritzy neighborhoods, people knock down their
> existing houses and rebuild new ones on the same
> property. So you can (in some places) tell how the
> neighborhood changed.  For example, near the hospital
> in Houston, you have isolated little 1950's ranch
> houses surrounded by McMansions...I assume the
> property value has gone up so much that one could not
> afford to sell one's house and then move to a similar
> location.
>
> And that's all I've got.
>
> --- Wade Lahoda <wade.lahoda at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>   So, I've got a posse of players heading West from
>> New Orleans and
>> going into Texas in search of another group of
>> weirdos who are running
>> away from them.  I am about as far away from Texas
>> as you can get and
>> still be in North America(Western Canada, eh?). :)
>>
>>   Anything I should be sure to include to make
>> things feel like Texas?
>>  Important regional distinctions?  Stereotypes to
>> avoid?  Stereotypes
>> not to miss?  And, of course, any ideas of the
>> weird, the strange -
>> local legends, strange true stories, and other stuff
>> that might be
>> interesting to drop on PCs addicted to the weird? :)
>>
>> -- 
>> "The whole problem with the world is that fools and
>> fanatics are
>> always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so
>> full of doubts."
>> - Bertrand Russell
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