We did get to go out and see some fireworks after all. In the past we've used our Sea World passes to get in and see their show. It was ok, but retarded crowded. Then we used our Fiesta Texas passes to see that show. It's lame because they shoot off of a cliff that you're at the bottom of. We realized right away that if we parked on the road near the cliff (like everyone else does) we'd actually get a better view. Here's a shot of where we were, for once it wasn't too hot and we had fun.
Of course, everyone got stupid as we tried to leave. I actually had a conversation with another New Yorker about San Antonio last week. We agreed that the difference between New York and San Antonio is that you can run down the streets of New York on fire and the people there have the common decency to leave you alone! Here in San Antonio, they'd stop you to ask questions. Everyone says that people are nice here... and they are, they're just to inbred stupid to know that the things they are doing are bothering everyone else.
See that truck that was right in front of us. The guy pulls up, opens all his doors, starts blaring Rage Against the Machine and then sits in the back with his two small children. I asked him to turn it down and he did... but he gave me this look like he was shocked that I didn't want to listen to Rage with my two year old while watching fireworks. See... nice but stupid.
We also ran out the Olive Garden, which is the only restaurant to date that we've had consistent good service at. I'm not saying that it is the pinnacle of our dining choices or anything, it just has good service. When Joy and I first got together I foolishly thought that I was getting bad service because I was picking run-of-the-mill places to eat, so I'd up the ante every so often. Pretty soon I was taking Joy to some pretty high end places and still getting horrible service. That's just the way it is around here, the people are too dumb to think that you might need more than one drink during a meal. At least back home you know that they want to ignore you but they want a good tip, so they'll give you contemptuously good service. I'll take that over the butt-picking slobs we get here any day. Well, like I said, Olive Garden is all good, I can eat there without damming all human life before our entrees show up. In the effort to make this a more light hearted post... here's Seri enjoying a lime.
Ok, one more thing. I had to call my company's customer support for my time site this week. This is a $32 billion dollar company that is consistently on the Fortune 500 top 100 companies. The tech lady I talked to was resetting my account and I guess it took awhile for her system to refresh or something... but she starts talking to me about immigrants ruining our country. Now, I know I have a more Anglo name than some but... we went to password reset to damn Mexicans in about 10 seconds! It just shocked me that she'd throw out something like that to a complete stranger. The only reply I could give was to agree that all immigrants should be kicked out on their asses. She was on my side till I mentioned that only American Indians would be left. She started to disagree and then I remembered that that I live in Texas... that wasn't part of the US till 1836... so I guess we could give it back to Mexico, or Spain... or France even! I'd be all for that... it's too damn hot here anyway. I guess we parted ways agreeing to disagree, besides she had to go cut eye holes in her white sheet.
Weird huh? Personally I think that if you can say that one race, gender or creed can upset you more than any other... then you're not trying hard enough. I can't stand people... it's pretty simple. I mean, when you go out and point at some race for being evil, or whatever... don't you feel all the fingers pointing back? Oh well, gotta love progress. BTW, the tech center is based out of Austin!
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