We went to visit Big Tex last night. With a tag line of “the most Texan place on earth” we figured we should go see what all the fuss is about.
Now, mind you, we’ve been to the Orange County Fair and the Del Mar Fair, but this is our first time rollin’ through the Texas State Fair. We know fairs are usually crowded (people watching is the real deal), the food lines are long (everyone wants dinner-on-a-stick) and usually during the hottest part of the year. So, we figured a Thursday night somewhere toward the latter part of the fair days, with a cold spell to boot, would avoid all that.
Belatedly, we figured out that we had likely made a tactical error, because we think it was fall break in the schools and pretty much everyone in the Dallas area was there last night.
At one point, we were shoulder to shoulder with people and a dude bumped into me pretty hard and he profusely apologized. I laughed and said, “I think my weeble and your wobble was off balance.” Dude wobbled off into the crowd chuckling about that. And it was true, if you looked, everyone was just shuffling along weeble this way, wobble that way. Heh.
Visibility was limited and at one point we went to throw some trash in the can, and to head up toward Big Tex. Suddenly, a Security man waved his hand and shouted, “Get behind the yellow line.” Everyone stopped, and 2 seconds later a parade swished around the corner right in front of us and there we were right by the trash can with front row viewing. I couldn’t go forward (parade) and couldn’t go backward (crowd) so I stood there, awed by viewing the most Texan parade ever, with Big Tex in the background, in macro viewing mode.
By the end of the night, we had found our Fletchers Corny Dogs and I found my Darn Good Corn. We took the Skyway back to our entrance gate, and after a pass through the Dinosaur path, we called it a night.
As we hurried back to our truck, we watched the transit train load up with people until it was so overly full that the barely closed doors looked like a tightly laced corset. So many people!
Anyone know, when did fair stands stop taking cash and start taking “coupons” only? Or is that just a Texas State Fair thing?
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