Marvin Z, use to hit on my wife to be when she was about 14-15 and he was 20 something and his parents had a clothing store across the street from where my wife to be worked on Fannin street. --1949.
> You can leave your house, head out of town, and an
> hour later you still haven't left the city limits.
> (During rush hour, you haven't left your neighborhood.)
>
> Spring is not the season, Katy is not the lady, and 1960
> is not the year.The "farm-to-market" roads have seven lanes.
>
> If you want to be a snob about your grocery shopping, you
> can go to Randall's, Rice Market or a Kroger's Signature.
>
> You have to turn on the air conditioning in January, two days a
> fter a low of 29 degrees.
>
> When you see your neighbor dancing around the front yard,
> you know he just stepped in a fire ant bed.
>
> You know that the Astrodome will always be the Eighth
> Wonder of the World.
>
> You come to work in short-sleeves and walk out at noon to
> find that a cold front has blown through, and the temperature
> has dropped 40 degrees in a matter of minutes.
>
> You wander into a section of town where you can't read the street signs,
> but you don't care because you can get great
> prices on fake designer merchandise there.
>
> You go to an art festival on Westheimer and you're almost run down by two
> cross-dressers on roller blades, holding hands.
>
> You hear everything but English spoken when you go to the Galleria to
> window-shop.
>
> You know that "Dad gummit" has nothing to do with your
> father's failure to practice good dental hygiene.
>
> You think "Y'all" is perfectly good usage if you're referring to more than
> one person.
>
> You've never seen I-45 in any condition other than under-construction --
> and you've lived here for 20-30 years.
>
> If the humidity is below 90 percent, it's a good hair day.
>
> The only real Mexican food is Tex-Mex.
>
> You know that while saving you money, "Mattress Mac"
> has amassed more than the U.S. Treasury has.
>
> You see nothing unusual about an 80-something former
> sheriff's deputy who wears a white toupee and blue sunglasses,
> mispronounces names, allows televising of his frequent plastic surgeries,
> seems unnaturally obsessed with slime in the ice machine, and screams,
> "MAR-VIN ZIND-ler, EYE-witness
> news" into a television camera every night.
>
> You actually get these jokes and pass them on to other friends from
> Houston.
