[Michael81Dus]

In the state of California I saw signs reading "click it - or ticket 250 $", and 460 $ is an example of what can happen to you if you drive too fast. You aren´t denying it, ARE YOU??

[xJones]

You know, Michael, one of the funniest stories of foreign visitors to Dallas, Texas was back in the 1970s. A young Kenyan was unfortunate enough to check into his hotel room in the Adolphus Hotel in downtown Dallas on Texas-OU weekend. That means the University of Texas Longhorns football team versus the University of Oklahoma Sooners football team in a rivalry which has lasted every October for almost 100 years.

The police have tightened up things now, but on the Friday ights before the big Texas-OU game anything could happen. People would throw mattresses out of tall hotel buildings, go swim naked in the very shallow Dealy Plaza pond, leave their cars parked in the middle of streets, and everybody would have a great time because we knew what to expect.

The poor Kenyan, though, heard screaming, yelling, and saw what he thought was rioting in the streets. He locked himself in his bedroom because he thought a revolution was going on, and the hotel manager had to beg him to unlock his door the next day and come out. The poor guy was scared stiff, but it was only the annual Texas-OU weekend!:)

We're not anything near as bad as Europeans think, we just have our own customs.:)