Monday, June 04, 2007
Where The Wind Comes Sweeping Down The Plains
I'm in Oklahome City on business for a few days. Nice town. Real green. Real flat. I'm on the 6th floor of a hotel, and I'm pretty sure I can see Arkansas from this lofty altitude. They must have more churches per capita in this town than anywhere I've ever been. There's more steeples jutting through the trees than there are trees. Big suckers, too. I was driving down the road this afternoon and I passed my turnoff onto Northwest Parkway. I could have sworn the guy at the hotel said Northeast Parkway, so I just drove right past Northwest Parkway. Turns out there isn't a Northeast Parkway at all, so I ended up halfway to Kansas. Or Nebraska. Or whatever the hell is north of Oklahoma. The freeway dead-ends into a country road right by this church that's roughly the size of Glendale. Freakin' HUGE! Just unreal, I tell you. So I drove downtown to see what was down there. Not much. There's this area called Brickville or Brickyard or somesuch that's sort of like Mill Avenue, only without people. So, I ended up at Hooters with another road warrior, this one from Houston. We tried to drink them out of wheat beer, failed miserably, but have tomorrow night to make another run at them.
One thing I noticed about Okies: They love their camo shit. Camo hats, camo shorts, camo tee shirts, camo pants, camo shoes, and I even saw an infant decked out in a camo "onesie." At least, I think that's what they're called. And for a while, I thought I was the only dude in Oklahoma City who was wearing shorts. Turns out I was just the only guy wearing non-camo shorts, and I'm still the only guy in OKC wearing flips.
But they got some cheap real estate here. I dove past a really, really nice subdivision of homes, gated area, big, beautiful cribs that would go easily 5,000sf and that I figured were $1 mil or better. They'd be at least that much in Phoenix, maybe $1.5 mil in Snobbsdale. So I asked my bartender about them, and she said she had family friends who bought out there recently. She was shcocked, nay - abhorred - when she learned they paid the ridiculous sum of nearly $400K for it.
They got that goin' for 'em.
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One thing I noticed about Okies: They love their camo shit. Camo hats, camo shorts, camo tee shirts, camo pants, camo shoes, and I even saw an infant decked out in a camo "onesie." At least, I think that's what they're called. And for a while, I thought I was the only dude in Oklahoma City who was wearing shorts. Turns out I was just the only guy wearing non-camo shorts, and I'm still the only guy in OKC wearing flips.
But they got some cheap real estate here. I dove past a really, really nice subdivision of homes, gated area, big, beautiful cribs that would go easily 5,000sf and that I figured were $1 mil or better. They'd be at least that much in Phoenix, maybe $1.5 mil in Snobbsdale. So I asked my bartender about them, and she said she had family friends who bought out there recently. She was shcocked, nay - abhorred - when she learned they paid the ridiculous sum of nearly $400K for it.
They got that goin' for 'em.
