Q: When I’m at a crowded bar, what’s the best way to get the bartender’s attention?Ī: Here is what you do: Wedge yourself through the thirsty throng until you have a hand on the bar, preferably a hand that is clenching a bill of at least a Jacksonian denomination (this will act as a beacon to any barkeep worth his margarita salt). While Houston’s Loop 610 at drive time may not be as picturesque as Texas 118 through the Davis Mountains, the Texanist forgives it and simply relishes the chance to “Drive Friendly-The Texas Way” with so goddam many of his citified countrymen. TYKE KIMBLE DRIVERSAnd so, when on the occasional foray to our state’s larger metropolitan areas, he treats his fellow drivers on the humming thruways no differently than he would back home. However, this is a practice the Texanist is unwilling to let go of. It is just another slice of a simpler time that is slowly falling victim to the ever-encroaching go-go hurly-burly of city life, with all the drive-through coffee shops, 24-hour Super Wal-Marts, and Wi-Fi-enabled gentlemen’s clubs. Is there a rule about tucking your pants into your boots?Ī: Unfortunately, getting the lifted index finger, or the hi sign, as it is sometimes called, from an oncoming pickup driven by an old farmer in overalls and a slightly askew gimme cap who’s chewing on a piece of wheat straw has, as you point out, become a rarity. Did I really earn such ridicule by doing this? I thought it was cool. Q: I recently picked up my girlfriend to go out dancing and she laughed at me relentlessly just because I had my pants tucked into my boots. 22 (Browning), 20-gauge (Browning)-under his father’s tutelage, and therefore has yet to shoot anything (or anybody) he didn’t aim to. The Texanist, like many a tyke, climbed the firearms ladder-BB (Daisy), pellet (Crosman). Many have surmised, as the nimbus of gun smoke cleared from yet another feat of marksmanship, that he must have been born with a gun in his hands. Once, he silenced revelers at a cocktail party by extinguishing a candle flame in the host’s living room with a Daisy Red Ryder from twenty paces. He has been called a William Tell-cum-Lucas McCain, a modern-day Ad Toepperwein, Annie Oakley reincarnated in britches, and one heckuva shot. If you are willing and able to teach your li’l shooter the finer points of gun use, you may start him early indeed. The key to safely arming a young person is found in the guidance provided by the caretaker. TYKE KIMBLE TORRENTQ: How old need a boy be to receive the gift of a first gun?Ī: Assuming that we are not speaking of some wild-assed hellion who will bury his relatives in a torrent of tiny steel balls the first time a firearm is laid in his hands, age is neither here nor there. How old need a boy be to receive the gift of a first gun? Illustration by Jack Unruh
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