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While going through security Monday at a Tex-ASS airport, I forgot to remove my new Seawolf and set off the metal detector. Now having spent several days in Tex-ASS for the first time and being a bit tired of EVERYTHING being BIGGER and BETTER because it's BIGGER, the TSA person says in a loudly disgusted draw - "Well it's THAT BIG-ASS WATCH!! What's the matter with you?!"

My new Seawolf is being dissed by a small town Tex-ASS woman and I'm just about to debate this yahoo on the finer points of a costly Breitling when it occurs to me I get home sooner without being re-routed to D.C. after a Tex-ASS rectal exam.

"BIG-ASS WATCH!!" Grrrr.

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SHARKMAN

Perhaps not a welcome description, but seems apt to me!

Now LISTEN here MISSY, let me explain the finer points of a costly......

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SHARKMAN

You shoulda told her, "You think this'un is big you should see the ones I got at home."
BTW, Don't Mess with Texas.

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First off, that's what you get for going to Texas.
Second, how the hell did you forget you had a 3lb watch on your wrist?

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"Leave the gun, take the cannoli."

Yee Haw!!!!

Yeah, in the interest of fairness, my home state isn't exactly a media darling these days. Yesterday I was driving home and saw a sign for a candidate running for state office. Seems he was running on education. First bullet point - "Everyone reads by 3rd Grade." I guess that means cipherin' by High School. He might as well have said - "We need BIG-ASS Education!"

(on further review perhaps the TSA woman was an Arizona transplant)

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SHARKMAN

I believe I can speak for most Texans when I say no offense taken.

Most folks see the whole over the top thing as a source of pride.

Sorry to be a buzzkill, but as silly as it may seem, reading by third grade is extremely important, and often not acheived. It's a yardstick by which you can measure potential achievement for a lifetime. Read here:
http://www.aecf.org/~/media/Pubs/Initiatives/KIDS%20COUNT/123/2010KCSpecReport/AEC_report_color_highres.pdf


@ OP, This is a hilarious story! In the end though, the watch is just for you and you probably know better than to pay attention to others' opinions

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“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.” - Albert Einstein

Ya I get that it's important. It's also extremely disappointing that we set the bar so low. Especially a state like Arizona that once had a decent public K-12 system and now is battling Mississippi for 49th. Sheesh I'm 52 and we were reading Dick and Jane in kindergarten. It is a shame that socioeconomics complicate it all, but "reading by 3rd grade" as a goal is a just really sad.

Sorry for the off topic rant.

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SHARKMAN

It's your topic so I don't think you have much to be sorry for.

I don't think it's so much the fault of the public school system as it is parents who don't give a shit. MY kid's 5 and can read, granted he's not reading War and Peace, but he can read most of a kid's book. I don't understand when there are parents that complain that schools aren't doing a good enough job but they won't try to teach their kids anything themselves.

Now I guess it's my turn to apologize, sorry about that.

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"Leave the gun, take the cannoli."

Parents are the key, there are many who don't do a thing, and clearly that is a BIG-ASS part of the problem. (trying to stay "on topic" here) My daughter read the first Harry Potter book cover to cover in a couple days and she was a very young thing. Probably not a BIG-ASS coincindence she is presently on summer break from Columbia.

To answer, in part, , the public education culture of the 50s, 60s, and 70s in the US was essentially - "Get your kids to school on time and your job is done." That is pretty much how it was "sold." And it worked OK during those decades, but times have changed in terms of economics, population, urbanization, demographics, culture, technology distractions, etc... In light of this stuff it can be a tough sell to parents that they need to do more than "get your kids to school on time."

But I know little of these matters (public schools K-grad school for me ), so I'm gonna stick to watches from here on - I swear it.

P.S. In my book, public education teachers get free passes to heaven! Period.

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SHARKMAN

he he he the irony in it all hey sharkman? i know exactly what you mean about everything in texas being bigger. i was in houston for a night and oredred some food at a restaurant and the plate that came out could feed a family of 4.

Even the temp in buildings - the AC was meat locker big. Of course the irony was lost on me until after the TSA encounter.

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SHARKMAN

Even Paul Bunyan is only an average fella here in the Republic of Texas *sarcastic tone*