Came Down For The Job And Now I'm Rode Hard And A Branded Texan

I was a healthy 23, recently graduated from Wharton School of business, with my first important job paying real money in the belt buckle of the energy industry. I was 'headstrong', opinionated, bossy', none of the traits that endeared me to my coworkers. At a Friday night happy hour I drank too much, and fell down puking. Messed up, clothes filthy, puke all over me, a work mate took me to his apartment to clean me up, which was a few blocks from the bar. I woke up naked in a man's undershirt, head aching, stomach upset I had to run to the bathroom. My wet clothes were in the tub, I had a bad case of diarrhea.

I used my finger and toothpaste to clean my mouth, stumbled back to the bed and fell off to sleep again. Next time I woke up it was sun through the window and a note on the kitchen counter, 'be back after washing the car'. I had puked his car and lost control of my bowels. My clothes were messed up and wet and I was trapped in an apartment somewhere. I had to wait for him to come back, to find out who he was. The first question out of my mouth was whether he had taken advantage of me, he said 'he didn't fuck drunk women'.

He told me his car needed a complete detailing, that was going to cost me $150, and he bought me some clothes to wear home, another $100. Wrong size pants, wrong style panties, ugly shirt. Oh, and my purse, it was gone. My debit and credit cards, my ID and keys to my apartment. He called for an hour before he got management to meet me. $75 for a new lock and key, now I owed him $325 and it didn't end there. My rent was due in a couple of days and I didn't have enough money to pay him and have the rent drafted. He paid my rent for me. Life isn't fair when it doesn't want to be so. My car? needed fixing. He took it to the shop and got it taken care of, another $450. In all and all he now spent my money, of course it was all legitimate, but I didn't have it and being told I could work it off, your imagination can figure out what he had me doing. $1500 in debt and more coming, He wanted me to get rid of he 'piece of shit' I was driving and get a humongous pick up.

I was 23 and a man had me where he wanted me, demanding sex and everything else that goes with it. Friday nights were date nights, I couldn't hold my liquor so no drinking. I learned about CW and Dance Halls and boot scooting. Down in the country, as he called it, women were gracious and took care of things without complaining. BBQ and Brisket and Chicken Fried Stake which isn't chicken. Round about skirts for line dancing, with boots on. Long hair and small tops to make the other girls jealous. The event of events was getting tickets to the Rodeo, and seeing Blake Shelton. Calf roping, bull riding, and other animal cruelty. Country men's women wait till their spoken to, talk children and cooking with the other 'girls''. Deeply in debt and now living with him, I had no choice but to go native.

In my part of the world the woman are assertive, in cowboy country a woman talks too much is bred like a mare in heat. Before sunup you're pregnant. He's skinny and dominant, a combination I'm not used to. I like the women here and hanging with them. The men here are outside with beer and the cooker. Now that spring time is coming I'll drop my foal when the rains come and the flowers bloom. The pickup he bought me is a four door crew cab with four wheel drive and a ladder for me to get into it. No one measurers mpg or anything else for that matter, it's about horse power and how many babies you can carry in it.

Oh and y'all, or you all if you aren't native, howdy and yonder are real words in the dictionary. Weekend at grandma's is a trip to the hill country, swing back through Luling's to get BBQ, before getting on I-10 with the other crazies on the way back to Houston, and the Loop and the Astros and Texans. Welcome to Houston, where pregnant young girls are everywhere, strollers won't fit in a normal size trunk and Amazon Prime delivers diapers. I landed me a man, and I wasn't even fishing.