Something strange is going on in Houston...

For the two months I have lived in Houston I have seen many smokers (at least, many more than I saw in Colorado) and every smoker I have seen who also happened to be driving had their window rolled completely down and their cigarette-holding hand outside the window.

Now, I do roll my window completely down, but it's only because I do not have air conditioning in my car anymore, it went out sometime last year and in Colorado you only really need it for maybe a month out of the year so I never fixed it. So with no AC, having the window down is necessary because you've got to get a little airflow as you squint through the hot cloud of humidity around your face. If you live in the South you understand this better than most. But these other people...many of them have beautiful new cars and I feel I may safely assume they have AC in there. Look, if you're not going to use that AC you don't deserve that car so you may as well just hand it over to someone who has driven the same car for 8 years and it was and is their very first car.

Now, when I smoke I have always just cracked my window so that my hair didn't blow around in my face, catch my cigarette then all I hear is "phhht!" and suddenly my entire head looks like a Brillo pad that was just used on the skillet that cooked my chicken fried steak.

To reiterate...this is EVERY smoker I have seen driving and smoking. Window all the way down. All of them. So I can't figure out if there is a private league of smokers or if it's some kind of a law in Houston. As someone who shows up at home after a 30 minute drive in stand-still rush hour traffic looking like I walked out of a monsoon (wind and sweat) I just can't comprehend any other reason to have your window down when your freakin AC works!