[TriLUG] Bye bye Tiger

[Ric Moore via TriLUG]

On 05/29/2015 06:34 PM, Danielle White via TriLUG wrote:
>
>
> On 05/29/2015 05:46 PM, Ric Moore via TriLUG wrote:
>> On 05/29/2015 09:35 AM, Ken MacKenzie via TriLUG wrote:
>>> I have said before that while Virginia drivers seem to be suicidal (I-95
>>> between Richmond and DC), Massachusetts drivers are definitely
>>> homicidal.
>>> As legendarily difficult as navigating Boston surface streets can be,
>>> there
>>> are few things closer to a Mad Max movie as driving I-84 in
>>> Massachusetts...
>>
>> Try Houston some time. It's another Mad Max town with cowboy boots. :)
>> Ric
>>
>>
> Did Houston last May, on a motorcycle no less.
>
> San Francisco was the worst of the trip, though - we met some friends
> for dinner at The Stinking Rose on a Thursday night.


For a very long time they had an open container law in Houston. You 
could have a cold beer, and drive home in the 6 lanes of traffic fleeing 
Houston south on I-45 towards Clear Lake (NASA) and Galveston.

At 4 mph and 30 miles to go, a cold beer was a necessity. I even managed 
to hold a Mikey Gilly's schooner of a rum punch and tipped my huge glass 
at the state trooper to the right of me. He just grinned.

Even the local radio station had the "freeway ballet" where everyone 
listening would be directed to flash their headlights or turn on 
windshield wipers for 5 seconds in unison. A beer or two helped, making 
the freeway a huge moving block party. Driving drunk would still get you 
locked up for real though.

Then Kathy Witmire (Tootsie) was elected as Mayor and wrecked the place, 
making open containers illegal. That was when the shootings started on 
the highways on the sober (and now angry) trek home. I'll take a driver 
with one beer over a driver with a hand gun any day, especially in 
Texas! :) Ric


-- 
My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say:
"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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