Thursday, September 21, 2006

Oh yeah, we know that band.

So we had to pay the security deposit on our house with a cashier's check or a money order, and since I didn't really feel like walking into a 7-11 with $900 cash, we went to Chase because I have an account there. Well we're at the teller, and our teller and another woman behind the counter start talking to us, where are we from, what are we doing in Austin, Omigod, we just moved here, wow, blah blah. Then the woman sends someone to go get someone else who works there, he comes over and starts giving us advice about where to go out at night, and the guy who's helping us is like, do you have any friends in Austin? And we said no, so he says, Oh well my band (because everyone is in a band in Austin) is playing at this great place over on the East Side on Saturday, you should totally come, yadda yadda, and he gave us all the information and his cell phone number and everything. People are so friendly it's insane. The entire bank was giving us advice about what to do on the weekends, like bank managers from the upper floors were pulled away from customers to compare the merits of 4th Street (older and more mellow) versus 6th Street (loud and collegey). So now we have a friend and something to do on Saturday night. Our first personal connection with a local band, which is such an Austin thing. Imagine if we'd went to 7-11.

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