Real cowboys take their hats off when they come into someones home.

[efhmc]

The drugstore, faux-cowboy, bush-adoring husband of a a friend came into my home for the first time. He loves wearing his little boy dress up cowboy outfit, complete with Stetson. I showed him around the house and he never took off his hat. Let me tell you, I know and work with the real thing and they would die before they left their hat on in someones home! This has irritated me beyond the little social amenity it seems to be. It is about the phony-baloney, don't get it, takeover of Texas and America by louts and braggarts and wannabes. He will not be back here. (His wife tells me he is really from Connecticut like his hero and has always wanted to be a cowboy. The man is in his 60's.)

[candy]

1. I feel the same way about baseball hats. They never seem to come off!

[efhmc]

4. I work with real ranchers and hands and let me tell you they always take

off their hats. My grazing lessee introduced me to his 70 year old father who was in his pickup truck and he took off his cowboy hat when he was introduced. He wasn't even inside. His son takes his hat off the minute he crosses the threshold. These people are the genuine article. Maybe I just hate that guy because he is a bushie but I just wanted to reach over and snatch that thing off of his head.

[MuseRider]

8. Real cowboys

are not at all like the fakers. I really, really like real cowboys. I work with them often and they are really more like the movie good guy cowboys than any of the urban cowboys that seem to be coming out in force around here.

[efhmc]

9. These men are so solid and true that I wonder at how they can continue

to be that way in this society. The man I work with has 3 sons and is the most loving and kind man I have ever known. He loves babies. When my gson was here, he asked to hold him and did not want want to give him back. He is raising his sons to be good, decent people also.

[MuseRider]

10. That is how they are

here too. Good, loving men. I was saying to someone the other day that I find them the most fair of all the people I know. They give everyone a chance without prejudging them. Most of the cowboys I know are also Democrats. Funny being in Kansas but they are. They can spot bullshit from a long way off.

[efhmc]

11. I wish that the person who is heading our country really knew what it is

to be like these men and acted with their empathy and integrity. I think he saw those men in W. Texas when he was young and longs to be like them but he is so shallow and so stupid, it will never, ever happen.

[MuseRider]

13. He is simply

incapable of being even a tiny bit like these men. He wasn't raised that way and he never had a clue what integrity is.

[efhmc]

15. You are right but he puts that "image" out to the world and they think

that is what a Texas cowboy is. So sad.

[candy]

12. They sound like gentleman---a word that doesn't have much use

these days.

The guy you posted about sounds like a real horse's ass,and that's probably about the only part of horses he knows about--the ass.

[efhmc]

16. Showing respect for others is in short demand these days but if we all

practiced it, we would have a much better planet to live on.

[mitchum]

14. It irritates the hell out of me when they're worn by anyone who is not...

a baseball player.
Whenever I see anyone wearing one, I want to ask them, "How old are you? Nine?"
Don't even get me started on grown men who wear short pants in public :)

[efhmc]

17. That is so funny. I would have to beg my husband to wear shorts and

sandals when we went to the beach. Otherwise, he would be wearing, casual slacks, shoes and socks. Sandals to him were too out there. He would wear flipflops down to the water but that was about it. Fuuny, proper, Texas guy.

[mitchum]

18. Shorts in the vicinity of water are fine...

beach, lake, swimming pool, washing the car or dog, etc...
But walking around on a city sidewalk...no way :)

[efhmc]

19. He hated the thought of them. Plus his daughters would always snicker

at his white legs. I never could understand (he worked at a bank in Houston)the undershirt, long sleeve shirt, vest and suit coat in that weather but that is what those guys wore. Then he would come home and tell me the house was hot. LOL. Put on some cooler clothes.

[Sannum]

2. I hate it when men keep their hats on!

does anyone teach general manners anymore?

[madrchsod]

3. yup-Bum Phillips

of the old houston oilers said his mamma always said to take off his hat when he went indoors---houston played in that dome..bothered him to no end.

[efhmc]

5. I remember that. He got a lot of heat about, it actually. He would not

have done it if he went into someones home, I bet.

[GOPisEvil]

6. I'm a city boy and a non-Texas native, and I know that.

That man is an ass.

[efhmc]

7. Well, you are completely correct, as usual.