[Texas_Jarhead]

lol

[AgentEcho]

Re: #26 - When I was growing up in Houston (okay Humble, pronounced Umble - possible offshoot of rule #1) no matter what you were drinking it was a Coke. Doctor Pepper was a Coke, Sprite was a Coke, Big Red was a Coke.

Have things changed in 15 years?

[steplock]

For non-Houstonians ...

#9 - think of Star Trk here KIRK.... or Ker-Ken-Doll with accent on the KER. At least that's ONE way of pronouncing it.

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[Husker24]

What is the deal with the whole "Coke" thing in Texas? I have heard that all pop is considered a "Coke". So if you were at a resturant and you wanted a Mt. Dew, would you say "ill have a coke, ill take a Mt. Dew?"

[SES1066]

The bumper sticker that reads, "Keep honking, I'm reloading" is considered fair warning.

Dang, where can I get this? Unfortunately, here in the southeast climes, our CW permits do not allow for exposed weapons being branished. Something wimpy about threatening behavior or some such rot.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Houston has tried many types of traffic signals.
My favorite was the one where the caution light
was replaced by a count down.
If you had a fast car you could tie the count at zero
from three blocks away.

[TrebleRebel]

Ask anyone within reception of Houston's ABC affiliate about the phrase "SLIME IN THE ICE MACHINE!!!"

[StriperSniper]

#16 and #17 are universal!

[Squantos]

After GHWB was put to bed at the towers or wheels up in AF 1 .... I could be found either at the Orvis Shop or Ricks till my flight out of Yews-Tun !!

Nice City ....to visit....:o)........Stay Safe !

[NewRomeTacitus]

LOL! Except for the place and street names you could be describing Nashville, especially the one-ways and constant construction.
Our oldsters also have a bad habit of calling streets by the names they had when they were growing up and referring to landmarks long gone. This tendency drives life-long residents crazy.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

Was driving on Westheimer looking for our destination. Going to slow...guy behind me in an old van went berserk and started cursing me with about the entire vocabulary of that genre available in English.

Arrived at the next stop light. Stupid me, rolled down the window and yelled toward the still-cursing man that I was "...sorry, but we were going slow trying to find our destination." He didn't hear a word I said. Got out of his old van and begin to walk over toward my car still yelling curses.

At that point, pistol was in my lap and I was thinking furiously..."How do I get this guy to get back in his vehicle and leave me alone with having to kill him?" Then it came to me...I yelled at him, "Stay calm and stay alive!" As I watch him carefully to make sure he didn't pull a weapon, he slowly backed up (still cursing) and got back in his van...which was in the turn lane. The driver pulled away when the light turned green and they left.

An old black man selling newspapers in the median laughed and said, "Thas what it's all about...thas what it's all about." I learned a valuable lesson that day. NEVER in Houston traffic do you look at someone...period. If they're mad at you, if they're not mad...it doesn't matter. Don't make eye contact unless you want conflict and whatever you do, don't talk to someone unless you know them while in traffic. Just my two cents.

[carlo3b]

I was flown to Houston in Aug. of 1968, from the Plaza Hotel, New York.  I arrived in a cream colored 3 piece linen suit, and sported brown and white spectator shoes. I recall that the afternoon temperature was over 100, with the humidity at or about 100%.   I was driven out on a pot holed country road to a filthy, swampy, cow pasture. It's finest feature was a shuddered, ransacked, one room school house on the corner.

When we arrived we were introduced to a sweaty man that explained to me that he wanted to build a 20 story hotel, connected to a multi leveled enclosed glass covered mall with an ice skating rink in the center..  He appeared to have been drinking prior to my arrival.

I called home after that visit and stated that I just met a lunatic or a genius I wasn't quite sure, maybe at bit of each, but for some unknown reason I accepted his offer and I was going to move to Houston at once..

The two streets that intersected on that corner was to be Westheimer and Post Oak.. That project became The Galleria, and the Houston Oaks Hotel. The project cost about 20 million. That entire investment was returned within the first 5 years, and an additional mall and new hotel was under construction within the 2nd year. The city had about 350, 000 people, today the greater Houston area has approx. 4.5 million, and that corner in the country, is about the center of the city..

Yep, I'm still here. Ya'll come see us now.. :)

[medscribe]

The list forgot that ALL freeways and streets in Houston have at least 2 different names...one official...one local:

I-59 North = Eastex Freeway
I-59 South = Southwest Freeway = Lloyd Bentsen Freeway
I-10 West = Katy Freeway


Bellaire becomes Holcombe inside the Loop (610) without any official change of designation.

Beltway 8 is also the Outer Loop which is also the Toll Road. If you see a 7+ ft Chinese basketball player on the Toll Road in his monster SUV, get the hell out of the way since the speed is likely to be 75 mph or above.

FM 1960 magically becomes Hwy 6, which is not to be confused with the Hwy 6 that is also 290 North headed out of town to Austin and College Station.