1. You can get beer on Sundays except in Utah County and some small towns. We have some odd liquor laws, but you can get just as smashed as you want to.
2. Yes, the cops enforce traffic laws. But I speed regularly, and rarely get tickets. There are precious few Highway Patrolmen to cover all our thousands of miles of highways. Like any other state: Don't speed through small towns! It's their chief source of revenue.
3. There are only a million people in Utah TOTAL, and not much more than half of them are Mormons. There are 8 million+ Mormons in the world. There are more Mormons in CA than there are human beings of any description in Utah. Within the next year or so there will be more Mormons in AFRICA than in Utah.
4. The early Mormon pioneers, when they would establish a town, would lay out the streets in a simple grid pattern. There is a north-south "main street" and an east-west "main street." They are numbered N, S, E or W in blocks of 100 street numbers each. So 1700 South 1500 East in Salt Lake is 17 blocks South and 15 blocks East of the Salt Lake Temple, which is "ground zero." How tough is that? You just have to know where the starting point is and have the ability to count.
-mickey
p.s. Stansbury Park, an early '70s subdivision west of Salt Lake where I live, has the most bizarre street system I've ever seen. When I tell people my address, I have to explain that ALL the streets are called "Country Club." All of them. You have to look at the signs, which give you the "range" of numbers that the street leads to, and gradually narrow it down until you find your destination. It's very confusing! Where was the original developer from? California!
p.p.s. "How can that be?", dparnell? Easy. We're not weird. You probably know plenty of Mormons and don't even realize it.
[This message has been edited by mickey (edited September 24, 2000).]
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