The Soldiers of the Law

[rain_gryphon]

Humonguous wreck in Texas. I can testify from personal experience that Texans cannot drive in bad weather. In 1979, our high school band got invited to perform in the Cotton Bowl. It turned cold (which was annoying - we'd been expecting a warm trip). The day before the game, they took us shopping in this huge, amazing mall. There had been a small ice storm that morning, with a bit of snow on top. We were tooling along in our bus, our driver doing a competent job. We came up to an intersection. There was, of all things, a Texas Ranger's patrol car in front of us. Everyone was like "Whoa! A Texas Ranger!" The Ranger tried to move from a stop, giving it a bit more gas than the traction would bear, and his back wheels just spun on the ice. Instead of backing off, and trying again with a lighter touch, he absolutely floored it. We could hear the tires screeching on the ice from inside the bus. After a few seconds, he burned through the ice, got brief traction (the back en of the car actually bounced when he hit the pavement), and shot into the intersection unable to steer or stop, and hit another car. That was a Texas Ranger, no less. Up to that humiliating debacle, I'd seen them as omnicompetent badasses.

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The officer also noticed Holbrook was covered in what appeared to be pizza sauce. Srsly. One of our fine local boys.

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[whitetail.livejournal.com]

I like to befuddle people by saying 'Texian'. ^^