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about Texas history or Texas lifestyle stuff it just kind of pisses me off. I would comment on the article but it would just get downloaded.
I remember the first time I had this angering experiences was during covid when everyone was moving to Texas from california. Someone was talking about how they loved hearing the mockingbirds sing at night and had never heard a bird sing at night before.
I don't know it just felt insulting. I'm sure this person living in a $600,000 home got up to take a leak at 2:00 a.m. and was wondering what kind of bird he was hearing singing at night and probably googled some stuff. And that's how he discovered the magnificent mockingbird.
But that's not the mockingbird experience. The mockingbird experience is when it's 2:00 a.m. and you haven't slept good all night, you've been tossing and turning, it's burning hot in the house because you don't have AC or you're too poor to run the AC and so the windows are open you're uncomfortable and everything is sticky because of the humidity. And you're about to fall asleep and now this bird starts singing some song that's nothing but a bunch of mashups of sounds and other crap that it's heard throughout its life and it goes on for hours. And you lay there listening to this ramble of random noises that just keep going on and on and on all night for hours. And all you want to do is close the window but you can't because it would just make it even hotter.
That's the mockingbird experience. Anything other than that is just some cheap faggot version.
And mockingbirds are mean too. I remember sometimes shooting them with my pellet gun and then standing over them while they would die. Even then they were still mean, trying to clawl me or scratch me or bite my shoes. That's just Texas.
Now I don't know what this HEB article is about. I remember when I started to get insulted about watching random influencers during covid and then suddenly see them talk about how they moved but then seeing them clearly in an heb. Because they had moved to austin. That ticks me off too.
In the 1980s HEB was just some random grocery store. Like Kroger's or albertsons. Heck even back then you had "Winn's" and "Wiener's" too.
But HEB outdid them all. Not sure why because it wasn't much to look at. I remember in the late 1980s asking my mom if HEB stood for something. She said she thought it was some guy's name and that the last name was "Butt" but that it might have three T's in it.
Thinking now that is funny because my mom worked as a cashier at heb's during the '80s while she took computer classes to get a "real" job. But she clearly didn't really know what it stood for.
Anyway I guess it's all for now.
