What Annoyed You Today? (1 Viewer)

[special ed]

I took four years of Spanish from 9th though 12th grades. It has enabled me to speak and understand fluently those students who also took four years of it. The first teacher, Mr. Martinez, explained each country & region had it's own dialect. He said the most difficult to understand was Cuban. Because he, and Miss Manes, taught Castillian Spanish, I once responded in Spanish to a fellow customer in a Spanish restaurant with proper understanding and reply. Once in a city park, I heard a man tell his son to get out of that boat with his new shoes. When I realised the man told his son in Spanish, I met him, explained, and found he was the Spanish console to New Orleans.

 

[SaparotRob]

I did not get married until 54. I wonder some times.

Yup.

 

[SaparotRob]

I took four years of Spanish from 9th though 12th grades. It has enabled me to speak and understand fluently those students who also took four years of it. The first teacher, Mr. Martinez, explained each country & region had it's own dialect. He said the most difficult to understand was Cuban. Because he, and Miss Manes, taught Castillian Spanish, I once responded in Spanish to a fellow customer in a Spanish restaurant with proper understanding and reply. Once in a city park, I heard a man tell his son to get out of that boat with his new shoes. When I realised the man told his son in Spanish, I met him, explained, and found he was the Spanish console to New Orleans.

 

[SaparotRob]

That,if I do, will bring back the black death.
Better not.

 

[DBII]

I remember when that was all grazing fields out there.....There used to be actual open space between Rayford Sawdust and Conroe....

Progress I guess. When FM1960 was two lanes and a long drive to no where? Houston grown past 610 in all directions. Moved to The Woodlands in 2006 and it was getting crowded with over 100,000 people. Now it is over 120000. So we move to the North side of Conroe 9 years ago. The growth has passed us up. People everywhere. Woods are clear cut all the way to New Waverly. The Willis school district opened a couple of new school only to fill the parking lot with temporary buildings the first year. The infrastructure cannot keep up with the growth. Huntsville is even growing.

 

[cvairwerks]

You aren't kidding about it growing like crazy down there. Last time I had to go to Houston, I cut over from Ft Worth thru Ennis and down 45. I hit both traffic and the buildup well north of Huntsville. When I went to tech school, in 1979, I used to laugh because Ft Worth ended at Western Center and I-35W, with a 7-11 store, there was the liquor store at Coral City ( FM-407 and I-35W) and then the Chevron station at US-380 and I-35W. That's all becoming housing and industrial warehousing now. The little town I live in these days, was about 3400 people when we moved here, and now is over 6400. The town will be out of buildable land this year.