[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Fw: Texas Facts

[Amanda]

Joanne commented

 I never realized that we Yankees had so much in common with folks from
Texas!

Well, *our* name doesn't start with "damn-".....  : )   [Southern ancestry]

> I suspect that our reason for giving distances in time is different from
yours -- I  assume that in Texas, you're talking mostly about highway miles.
Here in the Boston area, we give distances in time because mileage would be
misleading in  the areas where traffic is so congested that it's often
faster to walk or to take a roundabout route that's much longer in miles but
shorter in time.  As in, "It's  two hours from Milton to Somerville if you
go straight up Route 93, through the  Big Dig, but 45 minutes if you go
around the city on Route 128."

To reply--Texans speak both. When you are talking distance between places,
it's understood that you're talking the equivalent of mileage.  When you're
talking travel inside a city, it's understood that you're talking transit
time.

By the way, was iced coffee a generational thing or a Texan/southern thing?

--Amanda