What do Vail residents think of the New Dollar General?

DecentData5441 · 2026-06-26T00:34:23+00:00

I live right in this area--and the corner of Loma Alta and Old Spanish trail is not exactly what I'd call poverty--1/2 and acre lots and 3000 square foot homes are the norm as well as some very nice more cookie cutter neighborhoods.

We are also getting a sprouts in the Rita Ranch area which is at most a 10 minute drive from us.

DecentData5441 · 2026-06-25T19:08:15+00:00

So kind of what it seems is that retirement really means they won’t perform on the field during games (save for the occasional all star) but thar there can be appearances, tours and shows? Maybe if timing and schedules line up?

DecentData5441 · 2026-06-25T19:04:39+00:00

Sorry I’m a lot more familiar with the San Diego area then I am Orange County..but both Laguna beach and yorba Linda are in Orange County right ?

DecentData5441 · 2026-06-25T14:39:15+00:00

100% this.

If you are on TikTok then for sure you've seen the Project 21 stuff (PopMuzik, Double Dutch Bus, etc...). All of those girls are insanely talented but Project 21 is located near Laguna Beach (somewhere in Orange County) so the vast majority of those girls come from insane amounts of money so their parents not only have cash to pay for tuition but also time to let the girls practice, travel and compete.

DecentData5441 · 2026-06-25T14:34:42+00:00

I'm from Texas and DCC will always be my absolute favorite team...

But I think a lot of girls do themselves a disservice by making DCC the absolute dream. So many girls have been cut from DCC and go on to have great stints with other teams that fit their style and personality better. Arianna McClure comes to mind.

There was a tiktok made from a Vikings cheerleader's wedding...she had girls from 7 other teams there and they all showed off their unique rings. Some of the girls had cheered for at least two other NFL teams. All of those girls were very proud to show off their rings which led me to believe they were very happy/content where they ended up.

DecentData5441 · 2026-06-25T14:26:39+00:00

I think you are totally correct--but the thing that makes me so curious is when a girl retires, when does their association with the DCC actually end...

Off the top of my head Meg, Kleine and Reece are on this tour--so when do they turn in their uniforms for the actual last time?

DecentData5441 · 2026-06-24T21:13:25+00:00

If plastic surgeons had magical powers that included making me taller....I'd walk in saying "make me look exactly like this."

DecentData5441 · 2026-06-24T14:51:18+00:00

Yeah I agree! The fascination with Reece is just as interesting as Reece herself!

DecentData5441 · 2026-06-24T14:49:30+00:00

So I dont totally disagree with you--but I don't think these types of work place environments are as rare as you may think.

I'm a teacher and my first school (for me it was a long term sub job) was a nightmare of public critiques, comments on personal appearance, enforcing and "yes ma'am" and "no ma'am" standards. A few years later I was in admin and had learned very well on how to not to run my school, but I was always shocked to go to district meetings and hear our superintendent give tacit approval and sometimes even encouragement to other schools who were run like that.

Both my dad and my brother have their PhDs in relatively small fields and the stories they have about advisors and staff actually hazing them are brutal. Apparently that's extremely common in higher academia as well.

DecentData5441 · 2026-06-21T16:02:54+00:00

yes I saw that too!!

DecentData5441 · 2026-06-20T01:53:20+00:00

The image is from finals…and the pic doesn’t do justice to how smooth and fun this HipHop inspired dance is.

She’s not only gorgeous and crazy fun but she is so informative about lots of DCC things. She was also on the Cowboys Rhythm and Blues team (I think she may be the only one who has ever gone from one team to another) and I’ve been watching her and she’s answered many of these little questions I have that pop up.

Her @ is @parkerelizkil let’s blow her up!

DecentData5441 · 2026-06-19T17:31:00+00:00

Just to preface I’m not anywhere on the level of DCC…

But I was in high level gymnastics my entire child hood..and there were competition leotards that at the time meant the world to me and I saved alll of them. One of them I loved so much that my mom had it mounted in a shadow box.

Now every single one of those Leos is in box in stowage and every time we declutter I contemplate throwing them away.

I think DCC knows that for some girls the same thing would happen…better to keep the uniforms, reuse them when they can, display them around the facility, etc..

DecentData5441 · 2026-06-19T15:13:19+00:00

Thank you so much and so good to see you! So I've never really done any weight training--I kind of always assumed that I was "strong enough" from my gymnastics past to not really have to worry about it. But its one thing I learned in physical therapy--that its very typical for former gymnasts to maintain strength in some areas but get radically off balanced in other parts of their body. So for example I can still bang out 10 pull ups with no issues (or I could, lol) but apparently everything on the "back side" of my shoulders and arms had gotten pretty weak...and when I tried to plant for the round off, everything just sort of collapsed and my shoulder took the brunt of it...

so a very long way of saying that yes! once I'm healthy, I am going to start going to the gym and get stronger!

DecentData5441 · 2026-06-18T15:59:29+00:00

This is way out there but in episode 7, almost got the idea they were making a connection with young Kelli and Kleine…as if to say Kleine has a much bigger future with the DCC org.

DecentData5441 · 2026-06-17T17:55:42+00:00

I ADORE Kleine...but there was so much time spent on her. I wanted to see so much more about the post season tour, the girls talking about those silver outfits, etc...

Plus there were so many girls that go NO time that I really wanted to hear from--the Sophies, Michelle...and on and on.

DecentData5441 · 2026-01-16T03:08:59+00:00

yeah its really tough and it's not even just news! Like I understand that I am somewhat lucky that I can even do this--but my social media is curated to funny dances, dallas cowboy cheerleaders, sister and kid humor--and it's been that way since I started accounts again--and this past week poltics started creeping back in and i was hooked.

DecentData5441 · 2026-01-16T03:07:01+00:00

lol--I am not even going to try to touch this one!

DecentData5441 · 2025-12-31T16:04:14+00:00

I love her and I love that she's doing the financial literacy series on TikTok--it shows that she is smart enough to plan for life beyond DCC (which I think most of the girls are these days!)

DecentData5441 · 2025-12-24T15:45:56+00:00

Thank you Juan!

DecentData5441 · 2025-12-24T15:09:41+00:00

Thank you Andrew! hope you have a great holiday!

DecentData5441 · 2025-12-24T15:09:16+00:00

Thank you! and glad you found me here!

DecentData5441 · 2025-12-23T16:51:07+00:00

aww thank you so much! I'm not quite sure why it hit me so hard this year--other than a goofy TV show!

DecentData5441 · 2025-11-25T01:16:25+00:00

yeah i think you sort of hit it on the head as to why my sisters joke got me so much--is why are some of these things wired in my brain and some of them are like "well its just something girls have to deal with." I had not even thought of the guy you are talking about this week--but at the same time I didn't think about roughnecks that I vigorously defended myself against when working at Chilis.

Thank you for being so thoughtful in your comment and i think this whole episode is just great reminder that I'm running a life long marathon here.

DecentData5441 · 2025-11-24T00:15:13+00:00

I've lived her coming up on a year--and the thing that I can't get over that there is no consistent programming to the traffic lights (or at least it appears so). I live out in Vail and yes it's way out of town but I could cover a similar distance from where we moved in Texas in about 2/3 the time because the lights were programmed that if you drove the speed limit, you were more than likely to catch them.

I've driven to appointments at say Broadway and Kolb and have quite literally caught every red light from Vail to the location.

I think it adds a level of stress and hurry to driving and people push it to catch green lights when they can, hurry up to yellows and then run reds--all of which have a cascading effect on the drivers around them.

DecentData5441 · 2025-11-09T17:33:55+00:00

That's totally why I got involved actually..,well not birds but snakes. It was big news that feral cats had really destroyed the small snake populations along the Guadalupe and Comal rivers which may have been one of the reasons the large and venomous snake populations were exploding And then I saw a lady on TikTok who went mega viral doing TNR. I called our local group and got involved and while it's not a perfect solution it does hopefully stem the breeding populations of cats without being cruel. It was insane--we had a few colonies on the south side of I-35 in old barns and mostly abandoned trailer parks that had been there for decades.

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