I moved here to Texas in 79, straight out of high school, had fifty bucks and a ford torino with no AC. I got a job at building apartment buildings. I would leave when everyone else did and go eat, back then you bought one beer for a dollar and you got to eat the buffet they had out. I would wait a few hours in the ac in the resturant and go to the laundry mat than back to the building to sleep. On nights it rained I slept in the car other nights just crashed in one of the units. During the day I would just do whatever, dig holes, what ever they told me to do. It was mid June when I got here and I had enough money for an apt in late July. Talk about heat OMG I still remember it. Sucked big time. The only person I think had it worse than me was the guy that would come and suck the porta potty clean. He would get out of the truck, put on like a fire suit suck them dry and then leave. Was a crazy time down here, the place was just getting built up and it was like the old west. The Dallas Police would shoot you if you ran away, they once shot a j walker downtown and killed the guy because he would not stop when they told him to. They had "shotgun squads" they put one way mirrors in 7-11s and if you went in to rob the place they blew your ass away period. Big signs in spanish and english, branish a weapon and you will be shot. The good old days, stuff has changed, the Dallas Police still shoot someone pretty much every day but they make sure they drop a weapon or two when they do.