Posted on July 13, 2009 at 6:45 p.m.

They obviously didn't factor in things like weather.

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Posted on July 8, 2009 at 7:37 p.m.

You should be so proud of yourself.

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Posted on July 6, 2009 at 6:58 p.m.

I've always enjoyed the Fair Park event the most from outside the Fair Park grounds. You just load up a cooler with beer and munchies, load up the car with friends, folding chairs and a few choice mix cds, then find a vacant parking spot with an unobstructed view of the fireworks.

I've always preferred a parking lot but it seems lots of folks find the shoulder of I-30 works too.

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Posted on June 26, 2009 at 6:02 p.m.

It's a trap alright.

Or at least it was when I entered the NDT up in Carrollton somewhere where I threw my money in the toll basket and drove it all the way downtown only to discover there was no toll basket. So about 6 months later I get a bill for five dollars and something in the mail for 3 trips on the tollway. They tack on an extra 50 cents to mail you the bill they wont let you pay on the road. So when that went neglected- which is easy to do with an unexpected bill for a paltry amount- I got a bill for over 100 dollars.

After a couple of calls and much begging and pleading they agreed to waive the additional hundred dollars just this one time.

I promised to never ever drive on one of their stupid toll roads again. Better to increase the CO2 in the atmosphere and help increase our nations dependence on foreign oil than take more direct route under those kind of circumstances.

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Posted on June 26, 2009 at 5:48 p.m.

I'm finding it kind of hard to muster up any sympathy For anyone in this here story.

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Posted on June 16, 2009 at 6:29 p.m.

I once had a girlfriend who asked me to go get her coat, a real nice one she wore a lot. When I spotted the Neiman Marcus label inside I ragged her about it a little.

She said, "Oh please, I got it at a yard sale."

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Posted on June 6, 2009 at 10:59 a.m.

Well the lack of available parking has been very effective at keeping me away from some of my favorite restaurants down there since I moved away. Looks like many of them have closed, or in the case of Ali Baba, moved.

Is Dodie's still open?

But then I suppose riff-raff like myself that no longer lives in the area has no business eating dinner in that part of town.

Just allow me to ask one small favor- please don't take your two block crusade up to McCommas. I can still usually park a block away and walk to the Granada or Aw Shucks.

So far I've managed to resist the impulse to pee in anyone's yard but if I had to walk three blocks, all bets are off.

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Posted on June 6, 2009 at 9:15 a.m.

momzila, I've wondered about that too. Also, don't any of these residents have driveways or apartment parking lots?

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Posted on June 3, 2009 at 6:36 p.m.

One problem I have living underneath a sprawling canopy of fully mature pecan and oak trees- with a row of mature cedars running along the property line- is all that shade makes growing anything edible almost impossible.

Except pecans. But the damn squirrels seem to prefer those to the over-abundant acorns.

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Posted on June 3, 2009 at 6:28 p.m.

Well put, chrisdanger.

Still, you gotta admit this thread has been pretty entertaining- if you have a slightly twisted viewpoint anyway.

Even my meager attempt to interject a bit of gravity resulted in more name calling, Godwin's law, deleted posts and cartoon bunnys.

And by saying that I don't mean to belittle any any actual victims in all of this.

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