You already know Houston is like no other city or place…a world all on its own.
And because of that, there are some things we’ve become accustomed to that anyone else would feel like they were on another planter for witnessing — or at the least would seriously not get!
Here are your responses for things that are considered totally normal in Houston…but would not be acceptable anywhere else. The good, the bad, and everything in between:
1. Driving 10-15 miles over the speed limit to not die…
2. Adult store next to a smoke shop next to a day care…
3. People on horseback in residential areas in the city.
4. 4 seasons in 1 day
5. Spiked tire rims like from spy hunter.
6. Honking the literal second a traffic light turns green.
7. Luxury apartments, next to a trucking warehouse, next to a junkyard, sandwiched by two other luxury apartment buildings, all split by a very active railroad track.
8. Slabs and slowed down music coming out the deck
9. The Buc-ees and Whataburger cult.
10. Having an entire separate closer for your “rodeo attire”.
11. Wearing a coat for breakfast but wearing the most freeing spring dress underneath for brunch.
12. A 7-ft alligator gar in the bayou.
13. “Should only take me about 30 minutes to get there.”
14. Pronouncing Kuykendahl as Kirk Ken Doll.
15. Playing both Garth Brooks and Slim Thug at your wedding reception.
16. Tex Mex being called authentic Mexican food.
17. Running red lights
18. We got like 4 Chinatowns
19. We wear shorts all year long.
20. Mexican food! All day, every day!
21. Cutting people off and almost killing someone by getting mad at them instead😍
22. Running AC almost year round
23. A 15 minute drive anywhere is considered “close”
24. Barely walking ever
25. Fancy restaurants in strip malls.
26. Feeder road & turn arounds
27. Driving in thunderstorms. And we’ve mastered it like nowhere else🤷🏻♀️
28. Slime in the ice machine
29. Streets change names randomly for no damn reason
30. Seeing a horse and a car within 5 ft of each other at the same gas station
31. Being in Houston while being in a Long Distance Relationship with someone who also lives in Houston
32. Waiting an extra 5 seconds for cars to run red lights before you go on green.
33. Driving fast like you’re muling organs for transplant when you’re just headed to Whataburger
34. ‘Already’ is a complete sentence.
35. Driving to a destination for an hour and still being in Houston😒
See also: 30 HTX Slang And Sayings That Only Houstonians Will Understand