Well y'all, just arrived here to Houston yesterday (first time), and I have to say the heat's not as bad as I expected it to be. Of course, having steady access to AC certainly helps.
The first time I remember ever speaking to somebody from here was growing up. My father, as a mechanical engineer with a specialty in designing AC units for large buildings, got recruited by a company here. A woman named Doris Kilgor called our house asking to speak to him. Now, this was the 70's, before cell phones and what have you. I just thought at the time, as I took the message, it was incredibly cool to be speaking to this woman with a different accent from halfway across the country, and the fact that she was calling long distance from an area code (713) that at the time I had never heard of!
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