As this is a forum for me to complain about everything that is wrong about the world:

Today at lunch I saw a guy wearing a “Austin, Texas” t-shirt. Let’s go through some of the problems with this. Whether he lives in Austin or not, he is definitely ‘that guy’. There is under no circumstance a need for you to be wearing a t-shirt indicating to everyone the name of the city and state they are in. If he lives in Austin, he or someone he knows and to purchase that shirt for him with some idea in mind like “Now he’ll never forget where he is”. If he doesn’t live in Austin, he or someone he knows had to purchase that shirt for him. Someone saw this shirt and said, “I’m going to love wearing this around all the time. And maybe people will come up to me and say ‘Oh wow, Austin, Texas. Have you been there before?’ And I’ll impress them with my adventures of eating at Trudy’s while wearing this kickass t-shirt tucked into my wranglers.” As a general note to everyone, if you’re ever going to buy a t-shirt for me while you’re on vacation, don’t buy one of the stupid, tourist city/state jobs. I’d rather you buy a ‘My friend went to [some location] and all I got was this crappy t-shirt’. Alright, that’s enough complaining for now.

On the other hand, maybe I’m being mean. The devil machine told me this story about a drunk that came into his sonic once asking for bus far to get him back to the St. Louis area (he was in OKC). Apparently the guy was some kind of wicked drunk that would go on binges and had would just sober up in some far off state. Maybe that’s what this guy had going on too. He had some kind of alcohol/drug-induced Memento business going on and he thought the t-shirt was a better idea than tatooing “Austin, Texas” on his chest. I hope that’s it.