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No rest for the wicked? Does Hillary Clinton sleep at night? Good question, and as we ponder Bleach Bit, hammers, kill lists and horrific scenes from Anthony Weiner's laptop we have to admit it's been an exhausting day for the Compound Crew.
First up. Load the dog in the rig and drive down I35 to Dallas and Ma LSP's place. Settle hound at Dallas HQ and make sure the aged p. is sorted for lunch, she was. Then drive to a place called Keller in a Honda Civic. Keller, if you don't know it, is deep Metrosprawl, out in the wildlands of the Mid Cities. Venture forth at your peril.
We did, and arrived at a small dealership just off of 377 where we bought a car, a 2015 Honda Accord coupe. Lowish miles, black, nimble, and hopefully a good mileage car at a decent price and all of that. The guys at the shop were fun too and a pleasure to do business with. Nice, but while waiting for paperwork, we took a spin through the neighborhood.
Behold typically largish brickish homes interspersed with apartment complexes and scenic strip malls. These often had rough-hewn stone arches surmounted by terracotta roofs with names like "Heritage."
"Just like Tuscany" I observed with drily. "Well that wasn't very nice." No, I admitted, sheepishly, it wasn't, "No room in heaven for that kind of thing, what?" Quite, and then we turned the corner into the largest HEB in the world ever.
Seriously, these people in Keller live high. I tell you, this place had everything. Spices, cheese, affordable meat, frozen goods, sushi made right on the spot and everything else. For all I know they may have sold chain mail and relics of the True Cross, but we didn't get that far. No, we checked out, ate the sushi in the shop's spacious BBQ joint and headed for Dallas via the dealership.
Car purchase complete and 377, 820, 121 and 114 complete we arrived back at Dallas HQ, mission accomplished and utterly exhausted.
No rest for the wicked, you see,
LSP
Well Done, Parson.
ReplyDeleteGood grill..
ReplyDeleteThose Hondas have a really good reputation.
Working car without a surround-sound tv screen is a good thing. One that is a good car like that Honda is better.
ReplyDeleteIt's nice having a good dealership that you can actually trust, isn't it?
Mine, if I ever have to use another one, is NOT in the retarded city I live in. I'd go up to High Springs, a 20 minute trip up I-75 from whence I am. But with as few miles as I put on the van, I don't anticipate that happening any time soon.
I pity those who live in true food deserts where there is no H-E-B, including myself, but there is just something wrong about stringing the words "sushi" and "barbecue" together. Spoken as someone old enough to remember when that superlative chain was called H.E. Butt and sushi would have been used as bait. Just kidding. A little.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, many of you would not know that H-E-B has a division called Central Market with branches in the various larger Texas cities. They make Trader Joe's and Whole Foods look like run down convenience stores and Mrs. and I have been known to view them as a destination whilst vacationing in Texas. The uninitiated are well advised to bring a cooler and allow at least an hour, perhaps more, to visit. You have been warned.
Not to be obtuse, but to us waay north of the Mason Dixon line, what in the world is a HEB?
ReplyDeleteStop being Wicked. Get some rest :)
ReplyDeleteCrusty Old TV Tech here. Terrapod - H-E-B = Howard Edward Butt. Yes, Butt. It's a San Antonio-based grocery store chain, very big in Texas. And yes, HEB's are as big as noted above, and dominate the market when they open in an area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-E-B
ReplyDeleteLiving large!
ReplyDeleteAnother car. You're a fleet manager now, LSP. Welcome to the machine! I hope that MALSP is doing well and that the BBQ in Dallas will go off without a hitch. My love to all of the LSPCLAN.
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