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Welcome to Houston! Home of SocietySpy.com. For those of you visiting us from other parts of the universe, we offer this very brief Visitor's Guide with a tidbits of facts and figures of our fair city. For the home folk! Don't you just love it here?
- Houston is comprised entirely of one way streets. The only way to get out of downtown Houston, is to turn around and start over when you reach Dallas.
- It is impossible to go around a block and wind up on the street you started on. The Chamber of Commerce calls it a "scenic drive"
- The falling of one raindrop or (God forbid) one snowflake causes all traffic to immediately cease; so will daylight savings time and a girl applying eye shadow while behind the wheel, or a flat tire three lanes over.
- All directions start with, "Go down Westheimer..."
- Westheimer has no beginning and no end.
- "Sir" and "Ma'am" are used by the person speaking to you if there's a remote possibility that you're at least 30 minutes older than they are.
- "Sugar" is a more common form of address than "Miss". So is "Honey".
- Construction on the Gulf Freeway is a way of life, and a permanent form of entertainment.
- Construction Crews aren't doing their job properly unless they close down all lanes, except one during rush hour.
- Finally, Houston is pronounced "YEW-STON"
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