From: mhoyt@crchh47.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Michael Hoyt)
Subject: Texans vs Generalizations !!
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Richardson, Tx
Date: Sun, 04 Oct 1992 21:57:55 GMT

Before my previous comment gets read by everyone and their grandmother
and they all share their opinions I would just like to re-iterate the opinions
that some warm-hearted folks have already shared:

>The next time I have to wait 30-40 minutes while the ski patrol peels a body
>off a tree or a boulder on my favorite expert run at Taos, you can bet it was
>PROBABLY a Texan. 

>When the NM legistlature authorizes the public execution of any rude 
>Texan found on NM soil, you will be sorry.  Or maybe they'll just
>pass a law which permits the removal of a finger off the hand which
>a Texan uses to throw a beer can out the window, or the leg of a Texan
>skier who plows into some innocent skier on some green run. 

>Being an Idahoan You cannot possibly be as annoying, loud, rude, and DUMB
>as _some_ of the texas tourists we deal with in CO. The main reason most of
>them have their names engraved on the back of their belts is so they know
>who they are when they pull their heads out of their arses. Sorry 
>Texans who have manners and class, y'all hide too well.

>went... .  It just really pissed me off.  And as the Porche went 
>blazing down the road ahead of me I saw what later became a symbol to
>me of everything that is wrong with American society: a Texas licencse
>plate.

I think Neal has brought up an interesting point here but he totally missed
the mark.  To correct Neal, I think the 4 excerpts above are a symbol of
everything that is wrong with American Society.  

I have skiied plenty of expert runs ( I am not bragging, Dale used "expert" so
I expect the same credit) and have never been peeled off a tree. 

I don't throw trash out of my car window (like New Mexico would care, considering 
all the nuclear testing etc.) and I don't even ski on green runs for fear of 
running into a beginner(not bragging again). 

I am not as annoying, loud, rude, and DUMB and your basic annoying, loud, rude,
and DUMB person. (notice the use of the word person rather than some generalized
token like New Mexican or Coloradoans or Californicators.)  

Not to say that all Texans are perfect, but I think your narrow-minded 
generalizations and stereotypings are really what is wrong with American Society.
I don't drive a Porsche but I do have Texas license plates.  I don't want to
cut anybody's fingers or legs off or see them plow into a tree or run them
off the road (Hey, nobody likes an ass-hole driver from anywhere).

I just want to ski, with or without your blessings.

P.S. Neal, I sympathize with you about Californication.  There was an article here
     in the Dallas local paper about the Inland-Empire (Spokane and N. Idaho) being
     one of the hottest real-estate markets in the country.  If you want to blame
     someone for it, think about who is enabling this huge influx of Californians.
     Blame the folks who are selling out Idaho, your basic Idaho land owner who 
     sees an oportunity to CASH in big time.  

P.P.S. I really do love to ski someone elses untracked powder.


Have a nice day!!

 --- Mike 




 


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