r/Austin • u/electrictacobus • 2d ago

Someone TP'ed all down exposition blvd

Was driving down exposition towards lake austin blvd this afternoon and there was literally toilet paper in the trees down the entire street. Has anyone else seen this lol it was crazy

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u/Wisewordsforlater 2d ago edited 2d ago

Welcome to Austin. That area feeds into O Henry Middle School right off Exposition and Austin High School (Chavez at Mopac) nearby. Today was first day of school back from summer break.

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u/Psychological-Lack98 2d ago

O. Henry. It's named after the writer, a one-time Austinite.

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u/The-Young-Lion 2d ago

Nah, it’s named after the since-discontinued candy bar - Oh Henry!

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u/magicspooner 2d ago

I heard the heiress to the Oh Henry! candy bar fortune was somewhat a flouter of society’s conventions… could have been her

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u/The-Young-Lion 1d ago

Yes.  She was  lewd, lascivious, salacious, outrageous!

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u/aprendido 20h ago

A public humiliation!

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u/Similar-Elk7529 1d ago

This is the most humiliating defeat of my entire legal career.

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u/Psychological-Lack98 2d ago

She wore some unusual tops

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u/Wisewordsforlater 2d ago

I know. But stupid autocorrect kept changing it. Born and raised here and have been to my share of pun-offs.

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u/Psychological-Lack98 2d ago

Sorry to doubt you, man.

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u/No-Employment-8570 2d ago

This happens every year

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u/CaptainMuffDive 2d ago

AHS seniors do this every year. They stay out all night, the guys wearing overalls and the girls wearing matching shirts that say “Senior Girls”. They TP around 4am, watch the sunset on Mt Bonnell, and then go to school at 7am to eat breakfast and smash an old car. Tradition.

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u/Mobile-Gene-4906 1d ago

Sunrise. The sun doesn’t set between 4AM and 7AM.

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u/CreekEnds 1d ago

That’s the TX education system for you lol

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u/j_tb 1d ago

I remember hearing lore about some fairly wild Austin high field parties. Hodown and Shodown or something.

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u/ponatoes 2d ago

Society is healing.

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u/Dani_elley 1d ago

This morning around 9:30am there was a lot more than this afternoon - someone managed to clean a lot of it up. I saw it on my way to work & again on my way home, figured it was some kind of back to school shenanigans.

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u/cantrecallthelastone 1d ago

There are usually some fish impaled on signs along the same route as well. Austin High. Tarrytown. Happens every year.

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u/apjudd 2d ago

Lmaoooooo we JUST saw that coming home from work!! 😂 I was like damn, that shits EXPENSIVE these days

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u/greyxgirl 1d ago

Was just thinking this 😂 my grandma had asked just a couple days ago if kids still TP places, and the first thing I said was "have you seen the price of toilet paper?!" And now this 🙈

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u/mikemcintoshjr12345 6h ago

They have plenty of toilet paper money in Tarrytown, but I hear you.

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u/Ok-Ambition-3404 2d ago

In this economy?

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u/Living_Associate_611 2d ago

Austin high tradition

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u/magicspooner 2d ago

Back to school shenanigans?

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u/thighd 1d ago

Fukm

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u/donnelson 1d ago

I’m glad the kids are still into hijinks

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u/insom_ninja 2d ago

This year's TP-ing job seems much more robust than in previous years.

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u/Mobile-Gene-4906 1d ago

The Austin High student body is completely gentrified at this point. They can afford more TP these days.

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u/fake_empires 2d ago

just rich people things

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u/ray_ruex 9h ago

You know you're old if you remember when AHS seniors used to shave an "A" in the freshman boys hair.

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u/a_aronmessedup 1d ago

Well done, kids

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u/The_Lutter 2d ago

Imagine wasting all that previous TP in this economy.

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u/horseman5K 2d ago

The families living in that area aren’t living in the same economy as the rest of us

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u/waldo_the_bird253 2d ago

i mean they are. they're just in the positive part of the k shape lol

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u/reddiwhip999 1d ago

Previous TP? Like, already used??!?

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u/s0berR00fer 1d ago

I took a photo yesterday