The Walls Have Eyes in New Orleans.

Your guardian angel is watching.  The walls have eyes in New Orleans.  Let your conscience be your guide.

Houses are drafty in New Orleans.  Everything was built to be cool, with air moving from room to room even when the doors are closed.  Every seam is crookedly joined in New Orleans.  There are cracks that let the light of day in everywhere.  Nothing is airtight in New Orleans.  The whole city is wide open.  Dirty laundry gets exposed to sunshine.

New Orleans gives you something to think about.  The walls have eyes in New Orleans.

Peek-a-boo.

There used to be a whole district of glass eye workshops along the New Basin Canal, near where the Independent Caveau Wine Bar is now.

What a part of town that is!  After it rains the dirt in that neighborhood is all sparkly from all the broken glass eyes that have been ground into the mud.  Back in the day, the glass eyes were packed in straw and piled onto mule carts.  The roads were just as bumpy then as they are now.  A lot of glass eyes were lost en route to the port.

Word gets around in New Orleans.

In New Orleans, we don't do anything we wouldn't be proud to tell our mother about.  I know you know the reputation New Orleans has as a city of debauchery.  Unless they're working, the people you see on Bourbon Street don't live in New Orleans.  Those are your neighbors, from where you're from.  Go ahead, ask them where they're from.  100% will tell somewhere outside New Orleans.  It's the same in a whorehouse, too.

The walls have eyes in New Orleans,  You'll meet the nicest people when you are here.  Turn a blind eye in New Orleans during Mardi Gras season and you'll be blindsided by a wallop of Mardi Gras beads.  New Orleans packs a punch.  Be on your best behavior in New Orleans and New Orleans will love you back.  Home is where the heart is.  Good memories are made every day in a New Orleans state of mind.

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