How about we not give people control over our lives in return for a stupid ass sweepstakes. Texan here. I don’t give a fuck how well you say any government is run. Just trot down to the post office around 10:00am and watch their clerks take a break while 50 people stand in line. During the cold snap I loaded 2 cords of wood into my living room, wood roaches, scorpions and all. I’ll be damned if I’m going to let a government agency decide if I stay warm. For the record, about 2 hours after I Paul Bunyoned the wood, the snow began. About 2 hours later the electricity was cut off-and my Generac Guardian kicked in 10 seconds later. Then the damned neighborhood watch came by and asked if I would disconnect my generator and take a extension cord (they brought with them) and connect my elderly neighbor’s house up so she wouldn’t freeze and could keep her oxygen generator going. I said fuck no. I’ll do better than that. Me and my son will move her old ass in here with us. Me, my warm wife, my college age son who came home because his electricity was cut off and my two hyper vigilant working line border collies. Yeah, one big happy family. I told them I hope she’s not bashful because my collie dogs are right off the farm (froze out there too) and when she gets in here they’re going to get right in her grill and make some serious eye contact. Probably hoping she makes a move so they can practice working cows. They crawfished just like I thought they would and said they’d take her to a local retirement home. The retirement home as they called it is actually a 5 star hotel resort and golf course but whatever. I’m not going to let an old widow freeze but she’s called animal control and the police because my dogs ride in the back of my pickup. So I make it a habit to throw their ball into her yard so they can tear up her petunias grabbing that ball and a mouthful of flowers while they’re at it. Also for the record, during the height of the freeze, it was a balmy 72 in my house. Radios and televisions blaring and me in the garage with the lights on, portable heater going and the door rolled up while whopping on my heavy bag. Yeah it was cold but I wasn’t. Neither was my family, and neither were my dogs. I’m glad my dogs didn’t understand the conversation with the watch because they’d have realized they missed an opportunity and would have been very dissatisfied.
