They are coming!!! This is not a drill!

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People of Bryan/College Station - The students are coming! I repeat, the students are returning!

Campus move-in begins a week from today, but the RAs and the Corps leadership have started moving in. Classes begin on the 27th.

This is the time to make those final trips to Target, HEB, WalMart, and Specs. It's time to stockpile food and alcohol. It's also time to make yourself familiar with the curbside pickup options around town. Do you have enough provisions to last you and your family for the next three weeks?

Enjoy those last leisurely drives down Texas Avenue. You won't get that luxury until after Christmas.

Get in your last meals at the restaurants along University Drive. The hour-long waits are about to return.

We can do this. We can survive. With enough planning this week, we can make it until Labor Day. We just need to hunker down and wait out the storm.

God speed to us all.
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Great sense of humor. Very healthy! We find the students tend to gravitate to the trendy places like First Watch, Napa Flats, and all the new places along the NSxEW Texas Ave x University corridor. There are some restaurants that serve good food the students don't frequent that often.....Cotton Patch on Boonville, Edge Store, Cilantros in downtown Bryan, the German restaurant in downtown Bryan, Cafe Eccel, Jose's Mexican......probably more I just can't think of them right now. We sometimes play the restaurant memory game at our house where we try to remember all the trendy places we used to eat back in the 70s and 80s but they no longer exist.....old folks humor!
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Remnants of Na'Awlins- we love their po'boys and have never seen students in line.
The Original AG 76
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Damn........ I was hoping you were taking bout thunderstorms!
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I thought this was about Whole Foods lol
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The Original AG 76 said:

Damn........ I was hoping you were taking bout thunderstorms!

Those are already at my house off of Rock Prarie.
OnlyANobody
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I'm betting that Imperial Chinese & Sushi and Cotton Patch are enjoying increases in lunchtime business, just due to the wait times at Hooters. And that's without the students. I wonder what that will be like with them here. I'm guessing that they won't make it much more nuts at lunchtime, but what about evenings and game days?
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The number of old people yelling at clouds always seems to increase when the students are returning...
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Come to town. Spend your money. Go home.
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On a positive note, for all those businesses that struggled through another summer, good times are here again.
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FlyRod said:

The number of old people yelling at clouds always seems to increase when the students are returning...

Old? I'm not even 40 yet!
Cholula Verde
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Funny stuff! When my spouse and I first married we lived in the land of Winter Texans. I remember getting off work and needing to stop by the grocery on my way home. HEB and KMart were the only games in town during those years of living in the RGV unless of course you patronized the local independents. Well, we would always get frustrated because the retired northerners would wait until 4:30-5:00 to go do their shopping. There wouldn't be any parking spaces at the Old style HEB because the retired northerners/Winter Texans would typically take up atleast two parking spaces. It took them forever to make a decision on what they needed even though they had shopping lists, and you really didn't want to be behind the frugal coupon hounds because it was a long process to get them checked out. Finally, when they drove around town they only had two speeds.....haul a** or poke a**! My how the world turns.........
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In reply to FlyingMudball,

Call 'em what they are - Snowbirds!
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Oogway said:

Remnants of Na'Awlins- we love their po'boys and have never seen students in line.


Went there four of the five years I was an undergrad
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Awesome!
trouble
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Yeah but you aren't scared of Bryan
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FlyingMudball said:

Funny stuff! When my spouse and I first married we lived in the land of Winter Texans. I remember getting off work and needing to stop by the grocery on my way home. HEB and KMart were the only games in town during those years of living in the RGV unless of course you patronized the local independents. Well, we would always get frustrated because the retired northerners would wait until 4:30-5:00 to go do their shopping. There wouldn't be any parking spaces at the Old style HEB because the retired northerners/Winter Texans would typically take up atleast two parking spaces. It took them forever to make a decision on what they needed even though they had shopping lists, and you really didn't want to be behind the frugal coupon hounds because it was a long process to get them checked out. Finally, when they drove around town they only had two speeds.....haul a** or poke a**! My how the world turns.........
you REALLY would NOT enjoy living in Florida. The damn NE yankees that they get make the midwest yankees that the RGV gets look downright normal. Horrible experience for a working guy and a southerner.
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I'm going to savor tomorrow. Shop and then hunker down.
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trouble said:

Yeah but you aren't scared of Bryan
Guessing they weren't in Bryan then. They were in the CS hood.
trouble
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halibut sinclair said:

trouble said:

Yeah but you aren't scared of Bryan
Guessing they weren't in Bryan then. They were in the CS hood.


Pretty sure most of the times he ate there were in Bryan. I kinda know him.
CharlieBrown17
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halibut sinclair said:

trouble said:

Yeah but you aren't scared of Bryan
Guessing they weren't in Bryan then. They were in the CS hood.


I, however, have eaten at both locations.

The CS one was actually usually sketchier.

halibut sinclair
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CharlieBrown17 said:

halibut sinclair said:

trouble said:

Yeah but you aren't scared of Bryan
Guessing they weren't in Bryan then. They were in the CS hood.


I, however, have eaten at both locations.

The CS one was actually usually sketchier.




That's been my experience with CS in general.
Fonzie Scheme
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Thanks for the warning, since this has never happened before.
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SEE YALL THIS WEEKEND.... WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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Traffic backed up on 290 from the Hwy 6 exit.



https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=2183693351910899&id=1907704179509819
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There was a wreck between Hempstead and Prairie View earlier, which did not help.
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Shoulda read this post before i decided to go on a quick trip down Holleman and wellborn...
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Why do students - and nearly everyone else for that matter - stop in the road when they have a fender bender? In dallas and Houston that's a ticket. Should be here. Had 3 stopped in the turn lane on 21 bridge into 6 this am like it was a major accident....
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EBrazosAg said:

Why do students - and nearly everyone else for that matter - stop in the road when they have a fender bender? In dallas and Houston that's a ticket. Should be here. Had 3 stopped in the turn lane on 21 bridge into 6 this am like it was a major accident....
Wrecks always seem to increase this time of year.
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76Ag
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There would be no Bryan-College Station without the Ags.
The Original AG 76
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[Bypassing word filters is an automatic suspension. -Staff]
australopithecus robustus
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Thanks goodness the students are back! Some of us don't have fixed salaries and depend on the commerce generated from their existence.
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76Ag said:

There would be no Bryan-College Station without the Ags.



Many times in the past when I have been dealing with our local officials I have reminded them of this fact.
They just don't seem to understand this. More often than not I have seen a negative attitude to all students.
Welcome back Ags.
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76Ag said:

There would be no Bryan-College Station without the Ags.



I basically have to remind myself of this weekly. It's a great community, and would be Hearne if not for TAMU.

People defending the students should also remember that the second best thing about living here is being able to complain about students on the Aggieland forum.
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We got to be part of the "problem" today. Moved our oldest into Lechner today. Even went to HEB, Lowe's and Blue Baker
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