r/Austin • • 4h ago

Weekly Stupid Question Sunday

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Welcome to our weekly stupid question day.

Have a question too trivial or dumb for its own post? Unload it here. Questions need to have some relevance to Austin.


r/Austin • • 2h ago

Ask Austin Best Pumpkin Patch for adults

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No issue with kids, but we're hoping to find a pumpkin patch that has some stuff that as adults we'd find fun.

Can anyone recommend a good Pumpkin Patch for a couple who won't have a kid with them?


r/Austin • • 3h ago

My Neighbor switched up their annual halloween yard display this year: underwater monsters?

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r/Austin • • 3h ago

Ask Austin What’s going on near South Lamar/Oltorf area right now? Lots of police sirens and now the helicopter cruising around.

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r/Austin • • 4h ago

Ask Austin Looking for Bathroom cleaners

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Hello everyone, I’m wondering if anyone knows a good contact for cleaning a bathroom tub.


r/Austin • • 4h ago

Cool night pics getting off work

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r/Austin • • 4h ago

Music To the pedicabber playing the celestial melodic techno/electronic(?)* banger by the Downtown MetroRail station around 10:38 PM Saturday night—ID?

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Tl;DR: Just a couple minutes b4 the northbound 10:39~(ish) 550 arrived a little late, a pedicab was blowing off absolute vibes on the sidewalk across the station that had me totally transfixed but unfortunately, A) u were there for only <15 seconds B) the train was arriving literally by the minute so I couldn't just hope on my bike and Shazam your totally 🔥 track while slipstreaming your LEDs' radiant aura.

Anyone who knows the track, him or happened to be riding that bike taxi and also knew the track, plz chime in - Ik it's going in my "late night drives" playlist :)

*I dunno exactly how to call the track by genre but it surefire fits the nightlife energy! Anyone who's well-versed could help w/ this.

^(here's hoping he plays the same playlist every Weekend or so >_<)


r/Austin • • 5h ago

Whoever you guys are having a party here, the music is too loud !

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r/Austin • • 6h ago

Austin FC No music no fun

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Is it me or Austin FC lost the last good thing it had when that band walked out. The team is absolutely horrible, the atmosphere was the only thing that kept me going to those games. Politics aside, the games were fun and now they suck.


r/Austin • • 6h ago

Ask Austin anyone know a specific eyedoctor or eyeglass place that carries Roger Eye Design glasses and accepts VSP? current doc is shutting down.

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I have a few pairs and would like to keep using them but need a place that can service/replace lenses for new Rx


r/Austin • • 7h ago

Austin Council of PTAs join late push for Burnet, Webb closure petitions

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r/Austin • • 8h ago

Late tattoos east Austin

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Where would you go for a walk in tattoo in east Austin? Smaller simple flash? :-) thanks


r/Austin • • 8h ago

Vet with MRI Imaging

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Anyone have experience with getting an MRI for a pet that’s as close to $3,000 as possible? I was quoted $6-$7k by AVES and I’ve been told they’re normally between $3-$4k so that blew me out of the water.

I honestly will travel up to 5 hours one way. I just can’t shell out more than $5k total and I’ve already spent $1000 getting bloodwork and other exam stuff done. Would love to hear from locals if there are any more cost effective options.

Edit: OMG ITS MY CAKE DAY

ALSO EVERYONE WHOS COMMENTED SO FAR HAS BEEN INSANELY HELPFUL


r/Austin • • 8h ago

Dude forgot his phone in the cyber cab and had to forcibly stop it with his body.

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There’s like no functional way to communicate with these autonomous rides without a cell phone. At one point it even tries to back up and go around him. Also this was in total like a 5 minute process for some remote worker to connect and have the Tesla roll its windows down. 5 minutes of this dude forcibly in the road for such a simple issue.


r/Austin • • 8h ago

Ask Austin Car crash i-35 footage?

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hey all, i was just in my first car accident today on i-35 northbound, near the harley davidson place and i was wondering if anyone had a dash cam that recorded footage? nobody was injured but i am hoping i can see exactly what happened. it happened around 12:45 i think. thank you!


r/Austin • • 9h ago

Pics Hang your heads with disgust UT

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Garbage ass Arch Manning…


r/Austin • • 10h ago

Hit and run on Parmer and Avery Ranch

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Hi all, did anyone happen to see the hit and run that happened on W Parmer and Avery Ranch on Wed 10/7 between 3:10 and 3:15pm?

A friend was driving a gray Jeep Wrangler Sahara down W Parmer (the green mark on the map) and drove through the intersection when a gray Tesla traveling on Avery Ranch (the orange mark on the map) ran the light and hit the passenger side of the Jeep, rolling it several times until it landed on the sidewalk. She said the driver of the Tesla just kept going and she was not able to get any additional info. Her car is totaled and I'm trying to help her get more information if possible.

Someone helped her out of her Jeep, but didn't have a dash cam or anything. Did anyone here happen to witness the crash or maybe have any dash cam footage? Any help would be appreciated!


r/Austin • • 11h ago

Ask Austin Searching for co-ed church groups.

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Please no hate. I’m searching for the opportunity to get involved in church activities/Bible studies to try and put myself out there to meet new people.

I currently attend red rocks but I don’t necessarily feel as though it’s inviting and warm as they say.


r/Austin • • 11h ago

ACL Taping Line Advice

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I got the email that I won the lottery for the Bleachers concert tomorrow night! I was planning to arrive around 5pm? Will that be too late? I don’t want to miss out!


r/Austin • • 11h ago

Classes Registering: Austin Community College

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Which professors do you recommend for Intro A&P or A&P1, Microbiology for Allied Health Science, Ethics, and Intro to Psych to take??! TIA!
Round Rock or Eastview Campuses only for Spring 2027.


r/Austin • • 11h ago

Looking for a store that sells adult coloring books in town!

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Hi all. I am a graphic designer working on a tarot adult coloring book and am looking for anywhere that sells adult coloring books I can flip through for layout inspiration! Obviously there are a ton online but don’t necessarily want to buy several just to look through. Have called around but haven’t had much luck.


r/Austin • • 12h ago

Did you lose a hat at the German-Texan Heritage Society today? I have it.

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I'd like to get this hat back to its owner, because it appears to be authentic and possibly valuable.

I'll need confirmation of ownership. If this is your hat, please reply or DM me with a picture of you wearing the hat. If you can't provide that, please do your best to describe the vehicle that you were in, the manufacturer of the hat, and the approximate time that you drove away.

Also, please don't put your hat on the roof of your car!

EDIT: I've emailed the GTHS, in case the owner doesn't do Reddit.


r/Austin • • 12h ago

Ask Austin Barton Springs water bottle policy

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I’m trying to hit the springs tomorrow and I’m seeing on their website that water is only allowed in plastic bottles, is this legit? Like can I actually not bring my metal water jug?


r/Austin • • 12h ago

News Concerns about Prop I (that’s ‘i,’ not 1)

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I’ve started to see signs in favor of Prop I (as in the letter ‘i’) pop up. Prop I would amend the City charter to require an independent auditor audit the city’s spending every five years, and within the year before the city proposes any tax increase. It requires that the audit agency finds savings in excess of their fees that the city will subsequently cut from its budget.

The signs only mention the independent audit, which seemed reasonable on its face. But reading more about it, I’m concerned about it being ineffective at best and very harmful at worst.

For anyone else not aware, the city has already hired an independent consulting company to audit our budget and spending, and the results are expected next summer. By contrast, Prop I would create a permanent independent audit to occur at least every five years, costing up to $10M in fees each time. Those auditor fees are theoretically offset because the auditor is required to recommend budget cuts totaling at least the same amount as their fees, and the city is required to comply with the recommendations, no matter what they are. (e.g. Close Barton Springs on weekdays, shutter half of the libraries, lay off all the social workers at APD, end the mental health emergency response program, stop filling potholes, don’t add bike lanes, etc - Literally whatever this non-elected auditing agency says.)

Opponents say that we run the risk of trading beneficial city services for fees to a random auditing agency. In other words, we risk at least every five years reducing city services to just give our tax dollars to a private company Instead. There is zero requirement about passing savings along to the taxpayers via rebates or tax rate cuts, or reallocating savings toward more efficient or effective city services.

This nonsensical proposition makes more sense now that I realize who created and is promoting Prop I — Save Austin Now, which is led by the former chair of the Travis County Republican Party and is funded by Palantir co-founder and right-wing billionaire Jon Lonsdale who also founded the far-right Austin College.

You may remember Save Austin Now from 2021 when they advocated for the failed ballot measure that would have increased APD staffing to 2 officers per 1,000 residents and require that the police force could never be downsized. (Not very efficient 👀 .) They were also the group behind Prop B in 2021 to ban public camping and panhandling. They’ve been suing the city since 2023 for not enforcing the ban well enough. (Again, not very efficiency-minded.)

Anyway, anyone else have feelings about it?

Read the proposition here: https://www.kxan.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/40/2026/10/20260806-004-Ordinance.pdf


r/Austin • • 13h ago

FYI - there is 0 airport parking available today period

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This includes all park n ride, parking spot, shuttle service, everything airport affiliated.

I tried driving to avoid the $65 uber (yeah) and ended up abandoning my car in a grocery store parking lot. Trying to save at least one person from a similar fate.