Herd Mentality in Texas

I went to Texas for Spring Break, and let me just say…it is a big ol’ different world there.  Yeehaw!  So, there are apparently a whole lot of gangs in Texas, but in most parts, people are extremely polite.  I wonder if this is because the gangs keep people in kindness.  If you get shot for being rude, I imagine the reinforcement leads the general society to be polite.  I would also imagine that the break ins of houses are relatively lower.  The Mexican food really is ten times better than most everywhere else, though it is Tex-Mex.  The thing is though, that many other places use ingredients that have never even been near Mexico, so it really does taste a lot better. Something else that is interesting is the way that people drive there.  Many people there speed, and on the interstate everyone clumps together like a herd of cattle.  There may be 15-20 cars riding in one big lump doing 90 down the interstate.  What they hope for is that if the cops decide to pull someone over, they will only get the slowest of the herd, leaving the rest to move on.  When I asked my friend about it, she actually agreed and told me that the cops started pulling the whole crowd over after a while of experiencing this herd mentality.    

~ by fredwbaker on March 20, 2008.