Chuck has a ranch near Navasota Texas, The Lone Wolf Ranch. He has a big automated gate with an intercom and a white wooden fence around his property. Back in 1996, his fence was looking awful and badly needed a coat of paint and was falling into disrepair. I just lived a few miles away and passed his house daily. Lyle Lovett and Julia Roberts lived just a mile or two from Chuck's place.
Anyway, I got tanked at a little bar between their houses one night and decided I needed to alarm Chuck that his fence was looking like crap! I drove down and pulled up to his gate and hit the button. I sat there for a minute waiting and nobody answered. I rang the buzzer again and realized it was nearly midnight. Suddenly I heard "Hello, what do you want?" (In the familiar voice of Walker, Texas Ranger!) I yelled into the box, "Chuck your fence looks like shit and I would appreciate it if you didn't run down the neighborhood! Paint the damn thing..it looks awful!" I never heard an answer so I left.
Two days later the fence was fixed and getting a new coat of paint! Yeah, I told Chuck to paint his damn fence..and he obliged! Turns out he's actually a pretty good neighbor!
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My kids and i use to pass these ranches often. My boys would say, "we should stop and see uncle chuck."
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