Oof...my brother, an oil field WORKER, just passed through Midland not too long ago. Good guy, my brother. Works 80+ hours a week to provide for his family of 8, even flying from state to state, wherever he is needed, just to work. He'd be fascinated to hear he is an oil field "dreg" just passing through. Come to think of it, I'd kinda like to see someone tell that to him personally. Lol.
Go get um!!
Kudo's to your Bro!!
It would be a pleasure to meet him and his fam!!
I concur. I know Midland to have been an All American town, with All Americans in it. Including Mexican-Americans and also the old generation of wet backs who, back then, were never pressed to get citizenship back.
A different era, today.
I wasn’t referring to all oil field workers as dregs, but some of them are, pretty bad ones. Please try to deny this.
fwdude, I am sure that you know about the Midland Odessa area, based on your FR moniker.
Midland is mostly white collar, and overall a bit wealthier than Odessa. I have always felt that Odessa was rougher and more blue collar. Both cities have their issues. After all, GWB found his wife in Midland ... ;)
Things have really changed if a 14 y.o. that is home schooled, can fall under the jurisdiction of an SRO "School Resource Officer" - especially one that knows the family. Even the Texas CPS, a bastion of illegal activities and general sinfulness, dropped it within a single investigation.
Something just doesn't make sense, and I think that the reporting is leaving out the female officer's role in all this.
(My mother passed away from polio when I was 11, and I became the unofficial parent in the house when my Dad was away working. What would happen today to us?)