Every single home in Lubock has that one thing, the item you’ve carried across state lines, through multiple moves, into and out of marriages, and far past the point of explanation. It’s not valuable, nor is it useful, and honestly, you can’t find the life of you, even figure out why you have it at all. But, alas, there it is. Tossing it is simply out of the question. It’s the one item that has survived break-ups and tornado warnings for years. It’s practically in your will…<\/p>\n
Photo by Tania Melnyczuk<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n Can you picture yours? Think about it.<\/p>\n Mine would have to be a drawing of a toucan that a boy gave me in 7th grade in art class. I stowed it away in a box, and no matter where I go, the toucan comes with me. Why? I have no early idea. It just does. If we’re apart, sh*t just doesn’t feel right.<\/p>\n Read More:\u00a0Health Alert: Sick Geese Raise Concerns At McAllister Park<\/a><\/p>\n Anyway, I asked everyone in town to tell me about that one weird thing they’ve been dragging all over the world. Here’s what they had to say:<\/p>\n Fly Ball<\/p>\n Some people are hanging onto objects with absolutely zero sentimental value \u2014 but extreme emotional attachment. Take Janessa, for example, who has kept a random fly ball she caught in 7th grade. She played baseball instead of softball because she \u201clikes making her life difficult,\u201d which honestly feels like the most West Texas form of character development.<\/p>\n Photo by Chris Briggs<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a>Creepy Clown<\/p>\n Others are holding onto items that feel a little cursed\u2026 or at least questionably alive. Emmily still has a ceramic clown head she won at Joyland more than a decade ago. The most shocking part? It hasn\u2019t broken. Joyland prizes are not meant to outlive presidencies, yet here this thing stands.<\/p>\n Photo by David Valentine<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a>Are You Okay, Bubba?<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Bubba claims the only thing he\u2019s been holding onto for years is \u201cair in my lungs,\u201d which is either deep or deeply concerning.<\/p>\n Photo by Fabian M\u00f8ller<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a>Who Doesn’t Like a Nice Rock?<\/p>\n A few folks confessed to keeping things that are so random they might actually belong in a museum. Hub City Cosplay is emotionally tethered to a rock they found at SPC in Levelland. Just\u2026 a rock. And somehow, Woodson commented that he has the same rock, which raises questions I\u2019m not prepared to answer today.<\/p>\n Photo by Scott Webb<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a>Odd Book<\/p>\n Then there\u2019s Good Morgen, who owns a mysterious little coffee-table book about people making wheelchairs out of trash. No words. No explanation. No idea where it came from. It just appeared in adulthood like a sad, philanthropic cryptid.<\/p>\n Photo by charlesdeluvio<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a>The Acorn<\/p>\n Some stories, however, could be studied by psychologists for decades. Clint has kept a large acorn for years because it was involved in a bizarre police incident where an officer mistook it for a gunshot and lit up someone\u2019s vehicle. Everyone survived \u2014 including the acorn. He also keeps a geode, a skull, and a piece of bulletproof glass, which means Clint absolutely has a drawer labeled \u201cOddities.\u201d<\/p>\n Photo by Heather Gill<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a>Memories<\/p>\n Objects from childhood tend to latch onto us in the most unexplainable ways. Charlie still has a \u201cgold lion,\u201d and you don\u2019t need to know what that looks like \u2014 every Lubbock kid from the 90s can picture it immediately. Anna refuses to toss a knife from her grandparents\u2019 restaurant in Monahans. The blade is dull, the handle is melted, but she will be buried with it.<\/p>\n Photo by SHOT<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a>Rice, Anyone?<\/p>\n And then there\u2019s Sheila, who broke her rice cooker after a decade and still kept two random pieces of it. Meanwhile, her man Joshua wants the world to know he keeps shoeboxes for absolutely no reason at all. They might be soulmates.<\/p>\n Photo by Rohan Krishnan<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a>GROSS!<\/p>\n But the crown jewel of weird keepsakes comes from Randy, who once pinned his junior-high toenail to his bedroom door\u2026 where it stayed for forty years. He later mailed another toenail to his mom with no note and no return address. It arrived broken, which might be the single saddest sentence ever written.<\/p>\n Photo by Kameron Kincade<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a>And just when you thought that was enough strange\u2026 I got even more.<\/p>\n Lubbock folks are also keeping single bowling shoes, chargers they haven\u2019t owned devices for since 2010, wooden ducks that stare into their souls, taxidermy ferrets, VHS tapes labeled \u201cDO NOT WATCH,\u201d and potatoes that refuse to die. One woman even has a rubber chicken in a sombrero, not because she likes it, but because it has gained \u201cauthority\u201d in her household.<\/p>\n Photo by Ray Reyes<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n So honestly? Whatever your weird little object is \u2014 a toucan drawing, a melted knife, a Joyland clown head, a toenail from the 70s \u2014 just know you\u2019re not alone. Everyone in this city has at least one item they should\u2019ve thrown away but didn\u2019t, and at this point, it\u2019s part of who we are.<\/p>\n It’s not clutter. It’s Lubbock personality.<\/p>\n Keep scrolling for more silly fun in the galleries below…<\/p>\n Why Here? The Stories That Brought Us to Lubbock<\/p>\n Whether you couldn’t wait to get here or got sucked back in after trying your luck elsewhere, you’re here. See if you can relate to any of these stories. <\/p>\n I’ll bet my bottom dollar that you do. <\/p>\n Gallery Credit: Chrissy<\/p>\n What Your Favorite Lubbock Snack Says About Your Personality<\/p>\n Scroll the gallery and find your favorite snack to see what it says about you…<\/p>\n Gallery Credit: Chrissy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Every single home in Lubock has that one thing, the item you’ve carried across state lines, through multiple…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168,170,169],"class_list":{"0":"post-76326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lubbock","8":"tag-lubbock","9":"tag-lubbock-headlines","10":"tag-lubbock-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76326","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=76326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}