Inadvertent viewing of fireworks

[rickvs]

I wound up seeing part of a fireworks display I hadn't intended to. Pyrotechnics are neat and all, but I've seen plenty of them already in this lifetime: when I was a kid, we'd go watch the show at the Washington monument every year ... and later, when I lived in California, we could peep over our back fence at the Disneyland set that went off each night at nine-thirty.

So on Wednesday night, I heard them popping, but planned to stay home ...until one of my freelance clients called, wanting to meet me to drop off some artwork. Ordinarily, this would be a ten-minute round trip ...but one of the fireworks shows was being set off in a field exactly on my route, so it took me an hour. Had quite a view on the way over to meet him, but I tried to get back just as they finished, and so caught all the departing traffic.

This reminded me, oddly enough, of the cruisin' folks used to do in Houston during my freshman year of college. Until the cops cracked down on it, folks would drive along Westheimer at 0.8 miles per hour, with their windows down so they could check each other out. Flashbacks of my misspent youth :)

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Houston residents

[rickvs.livejournal.com]

I only did the cruising thing a couple of times; I seem to recall that the cops put an end to it around 1988. May I ask when you hung around that area? I was rooming with Phaedrus and Unbeliever a couple of years later; you may recognize their names from #callahans. (Dunno if you'd recognize mine as well; I used to log in as Cali4nia a few years back).

Re: Houston residents

[bfly.livejournal.com]

I remember you from #c. My Westheimer cruising days would have been about 1975-76. I spent a lot of evenings that way the summer before I went off to college. Next time I'm in Houston I ought to call my old friend Wiz and see if kids still cruise that strip. My favorite restaurants are gone now, though.