That reminds me of an old story... two guys from an engineering firm in the Northeast are on a swing through Texas visiting clients and prospects.... Epstein and O’Brien... they often traveled together on these out of state trips...
They flew into DFW and picked up their rental car and headed to the first appointment... unfortunately they got side-swipped by a youngster in a pickup truck and ended up in a ditch within an hour of landing... it wasn’t too bad but both airbags deployed and they were a bit bruised and banged up...
Ambulance takes them to the nearest hospital ER to get checked out and cleaned up...
Turns out they are both fine... a couple of slight bruises and some minor lacerations, but quite a bit of pain in the head and neck from the trauma... they are cleaned up and bandaged and given a mild pain reliever and told to sit for a while until they can be released...
Both are a bit antsy and on their cell phones rescheduling meetings and securing another rental car... anxious to put this unfortunate mishap behind them and get on with the business of their trip...
The recovery nurse comes in after a bit of time and asks in her very Texas accent, “How’s y’all paaaaa-innnn?”
Both are taken aback by what they feel is an intrusive question, Epstein, a bit flustered, replies, “I’m sure that our company medical insurance will cover all of this....” O’Brien sniffs, “Not that it is any concern of yours, ma’am....”
The nurse is a bit surprised by what she thinks are flippant and a bit nutty responses... she tells them to sit tight and asks the doctor to order more scans on their heads....
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When I lived in Houston one of my co-workers told me his kids were trying to learn the difference between “sit” and “set”.
He said, “In mah house they don standa chance.”
And only in Texas is a wax thing a kid colors with pronounced the same as what a king wears on his head.
You also made me think of a time (still in Houston) when one of those tank-like station wagons they used to make turned left a little to close to an oncoming new Toyota sedan. The impact made him miss the paved area across the drainage ditch that he was aiming for so he wound up going into the ditch and back up into the parking lot he was aiming for.
The Toyota had its airbags deployed and the front end collapsed. It had to be towed.
The station wagon? After its driver had his discussion with the police he drove his car on to wherever he was going.