Is it just me, or does every story in Lubbock seem to begin the same way? It’s always, “So, I was just trying to…”\u00a0Trying to get home. Trying to grab dinner. Trying to meet someone for coffee. Whatever it might be.<\/p>\n
And, somehow, nothing ever happens the way it was supposed to.<\/p>\n
In Lubbock, “just trying to” is a lie we tell ourselves before the universe intervenes in the worst possible way to eff up the vibes. A five-minute trip turns into a 2-hour saga involving a conversation with someone you vaguely know, a flat tire, and maybe even a police report. You never know around here.<\/p>\n
Photo by Brett Jordan<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n There’s also the optimism. You’re just trying to pick up food, but the place is out of your favorite item, and you’re trapped in a line that wraps around the building with no way to squeeze out. It’s always something.<\/p>\n Read More:\u00a0What Makes Lubbock Rank 50th In Hardest Working Cities?<\/a><\/p>\n What about those Lubbock side quests? You go out for one thing, maybe a quick bank run, and end up at Walmart buying leggings for your 14-year-old sister who texted you from school that someone dumped Gatorade on her at lunch. Now, you’re thinking about fighting a teenager and Googling how much prison time you could get.<\/p>\n Did the check get cashed? Nope. Did you make your sister happy? Maybe?<\/p>\n Are teenagers ever really happy?<\/p>\n Photo by Umit Y Buz<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n Every single story seems to end with something you didn’t set out for, and you, exhausted and slightly irritated. Rinse, repeat.<\/p>\n In Lubbock, it feels like we never quite get done what we were just trying to do, without a meltdown, a roadblock, or some ridiculous nonsense that takes us off track and down the backroads in a neighborhood we aren’t familiar with.<\/p>\n I mean, I guess, at least we are all “just trying” together. That’s got to be good for something. Sheesh.<\/p>\n Find more Lubbock odds and ends in the galleries below, starting with my favorite ways to de-stress. You might could use them right about now.<\/p>\n Chrissy’s 6 Favorite Ways To De-stress and Decompress<\/p>\n Chill, bro. You got this. <\/p>\n Gallery Credit: Chrissy<\/p>\n 4 Awesome Weekend Getaways Not Far From Lubbock<\/p>\n Here’s a list of cool places you can spend the weekend that aren’t too far from home.<\/p>\n Gallery Credit: Chrissy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is it just me, or does every story in Lubbock seem to begin the same way? It’s always,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178200,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":["post-178499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}