Know Your Area

Last night someone asked me what part of Texas I reside in. I responded with my standard, “central Texas” response, and moved on. A few minutes later he said. “Oh, you’re an Aggie”, which is code for A&M University in College Station. If you don’t know where that’s at, no worries, I’m about to get to that. I thought about it, trying to figure out what about me says I’m an Aggie, and I came up with nothing. To be honest, I don’t have an affiliation with any of the schools. I don’t follow football, I don’t bleed their colors, nor do I know anything about them, other than where they are and what they specialize in. It turns out that because I’m from Central Texas, I must be an Aggie. I thought the “accuser” must not be from Texas, because College Station is on the edge of the central region, closer to east Texas; certainly not what people consider to be CenTex. He’s from Austin, which is centrally located! I was baffled as to how he could live somewhere and not know his geography. I mean, if anyone know’s where Austin is on a map, you know it’s centrally located. Better yet, if you’re from the area, you most definitely know that Aggie-Land is not in the middle of the state. Furthermore, I’m terrified that he might reproduce and pass on the gene that is directionally challenged. LOL. Yes, I just made up a word. It’ll soon trend and turn into a hash tag and eventually make its way into the dictionary. That’s how it works in today’s social media crazed world.