Pull Onto the Grass, Mind the Sprinkler Head
Texas beat Ohio State 24-23 at home, and I paid full price for every one of those points. A quarter-by-quarter audit of game-day parking and stadium beer, priced against the coffee-can years.
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Sixer Rang Up Seventeen Forty-Nine at the South First Corner Store
Watched a six-pack of Lone Star ring up $17.49 at the revamped South First corner store; Rodriguez Grocery's $2.99 domestics, free ice, and neighborhood familiarity have been swapped for barnwood, app payments, and $9 hazy IPAs.
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$2.99 Lone Star Sixers at the Gas Station on Airport Boulevard
The Circle K cooler at Airport and 51st used to dispense a sixer of Lone Star for $2.99 before the clerk even looked up from his crossword; last week the same transaction required an app, a loyalty scan, and left me with $19.47 on the receipt and a sudden urge to lie down in the parking lot.
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Three Ones Hit the Carousel Bar Like I'd Offered Food Stamps
I dropped three crumpled singles for a Lone Star at the Carousel Lounge only to learn the new price is $7.25 before the app prompt and suggested tip; the Burnet Road dive where $3 once bought beer and belonging now hosts tech bros discussing cap tables under the same spinning neon rooster.
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Three Dollars Bought You Beer, Not a Lecture on Hops
Found a 1998 carbon copy from the ice house at 12th and Lamar showing a case of Miller High Life for $8.99 with tax; yesterday two pints of "foraged juniper lager" at the glass-and-steel replacement on the same corner cleared $19 before tip, plus the bartender felt the need to explain yeast strains like I was auditing a PhD.
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