Pamala Cooper

AKA Pam, PJ, Peej, Peejmala;
Aggie alumnus, wife, and Domestic Engineer in charge of two ongoing projects Mini1 and Mini2

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In Texas they told me to stop at Buc-ee's for gas.

I have been to shrines. I have stood in temples that took two hundred years to build.

I was not prepared for the gas station.

There were one hundred and twenty fuel pumps.

I counted them because I did not believe them.

A man beside me was filling a truck the size of my first apartment, and he was not filling it because it was empty.

He was filling it because he was here, and here is where a man fills things.

Inside was a hall so vast I lost the horizon.

A wall of jerky. A wall of fudge I did not know the country produced.

A brisket sandwich handed to me by a man in a beaver costume.

And I want to be clear, the beaver is not a mascot.

The beaver is a saint.

The people speak of him the way my grandmother spoke of the mountain behind her house.

And the bathrooms.

I had been warned about the bathrooms and I had dismissed the warning as the pride of a loud people.

I was wrong to dismiss it.

The bathrooms are famous across the whole state and they have earned it.

I have slept in worse hotels. I nearly bowed upon entering.

A janitor was polishing the floor with the devotion of a man tending a garden he loved, and when I thanked him he said "welcome in," which I have since learned is what Texas says instead of hello, and also instead of I am glad you exist.

I went in for gas. I was inside for ninety minutes.

I came out with fudge, a shirt printed with a joke I do not fully understand, forty dollars of jerky, and a feeling I can only describe as having been to church.

I did not need any of it.

I needed all of it.

I have walked through the great cathedrals of the old world. I lit no candle there.

I lit no candle at Buc-ee's either.

But I did fill the truck.

And I understand now that in Texas, this is the same thing.

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@SnowBlackLamont Donie

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@accuweather C

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@FactsAboutTexas Cows

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@NickKrasz_Wx That eye has a pupil!

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@otokyo 50¢

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@Rainmaker1973 Hot sauce

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@gunsnrosesgirl3 Clothes

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@averytomascowx I'm a bit further south near Bulverde (San Antonio). My backyard thermometer!!

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@TansuYegen An egg roll!

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@SnowBlackLamont Yes! Our diamond shamrock by our neighborhood entrance had one! My friends and I used to walk to it for candy and slushies

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@TalbertSwan So does this mean that if your child is over 7 you can no longer claim them on your taxes?

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@lynniefishy @ShellbackBeau @Combat_learjet Thank you! Both of our cars are older than this technology I believe because they don't have that option

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@ShellbackBeau @Combat_learjet What's 'A' mean?

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@JoJoFromJerz Kimmy Schmidt

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@DanRandolph3 @ProdigalThe3rd Yes! 2007 - both of my dogs were on kidney dialysis for 8 days because of that!

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Why are glass pyrex exploding in kitchens? 💥

🚨 Spoiler alert:
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PYREX vs pyrex
What’s the difference??

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@FactsAboutTexas Yes and there's still one by our old house! I always thought it was funny though to raise an Italian flag at a Mexican restaurant