Good Old Texas!

I've been in Houston for the last week doing some training for work. Tonight I was picking up some dinner when I met a very humorous man…I'll call him Chuck. It all started when I went to pay for my dinner…Chuck was talking to the cashier who happened to be an East Indian gentlemen who had moved to Texas about two years ago. I came into earshot early enough to here Chuck say to the clerk "You know what us Texan's call you guys here?" Well you can imagine what the East Indian guy and I were thinking…but thankfully he said "Honorary Texan's!!!" Followed up shortly by…"And you know what the first thing an Honorary Texan should do? Go buy a gun!!!" It took all my self-control to not burst out laughing!


Chuck then turned to me and asked if I had a gun…I politely smiled and said "Nope, I'm from Canada, and we have gun control.". I think he actually felt sorry for me at this point, but it didn’t stop him from telling me that he owned one of every of gun out there…and that he had just been to Outdoor World to buy himself a new high powered crossbow. What do you say to that??? I'll tell you what I said…"I suppose you are a man I should be friends with then". This comment brought us to our next topic…living on his 50 acers of land in who knows where Texas.

Before giving me a lecture on how "city folk" don't know their neighbors and live in little bubbles were they don't interact with each other, Chuck felt it necessary to tell me about how there are only two sheriffs on duty at night in his County. Apparently, this is the real reason he owns one of every make of gun…AND a new high-powered crossbow…sure it is Chuck! Anyway, he went on to justify his guns because it could take up to 30 minutes for one of those sheriffs to show to his property…"and what am I suppose to do…throw frying pans at 'em?!"

Chuck went on a little longer about moving to Texas from Michigan to get away from "Those Liberals", but by this point Chuck was a little more scary than amusing so I made my exit…although looking back I likely could have had a very entertaining conversation with him about the upcoming election!!!