Driving my wife to the doctor yesterday and I saw a 50' extension cord laying on the shoulder. The was right before the Paloma Creek subdivision. Wife said I couldn't stop to pick it up.

"Those guys up in the panhandle" .........

A long time ago when I was a young man with a wife and 3 kids + broke, I was walking across a super market parking lot and reached down and picked up a bank envelope with $300. Made my rent that month.

Testically speaking you're right. Don't tell that to the news people who ALWAYS refer to our area as north Texas. You're in northwest Texas.

When I was in college we "adopted" a stretch of highway and did cleanup once a year. Never fail, always found porn on the roadside.

There is the Panhandle and then there is north Texas. Blame the media....

Don't want to argue, but if you consider that north Texas, then what do you call us that live in the panhandle? And it's not west Texas, bc that is the trans-Pecos/el Paso area. [/quote]


Umm, the panhandle?? Been that way the last 43 years of my life.

Umm, the panhandle?? Been that way the last 43 years of my life. [/quote]


When I lived in Odessa we called ya'll yankees. Now that I live in Dallas (can't find the embarrassed icon) I guess I'm a yankee too

I was driving behind some motorcycles in Central Texas (South of North Texas and long ways from the Panhandle) going down 16. They were going slower than I wanted to go, but I chose not to try to pass them, I only had about 20 miles left to go and in no big rush. Saw something shiny hanging off the back motorcycle down low on the rear fender. I couldn't really tell what it was. That's about when it came off the bike and bounced off the road a couple of times and then bounced up 9 feet into the air... headed right for my truck. I swerved a little and avoided it. Then I tried to signal the guy on the bike to let him know. I flashed the lights and he paid no attention. Honked a couple of times and still paid no attention. So I noted the mileage on the odometer to tell him if he stopped. The group stopped in the next town at a gas station so I stopped to tell the guy. At first he had no clue what I was talking about and then remembered he added some chrome thing to the bottom of the fender. He asked how far back it was. I said it was 5.9 miles back if he wanted to go find it. Apparently they were going back to look for it as I was leaving.