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WCDT 28-32 March 2011 (1891-1895)
Near Lurker:
--- Quote from: bicostp on 28 Mar 2011, 21:51 ---
Well excuuuuuuse me princess. It's not every day I drive three hours to go hang around in Small Town USA. I didn't think that entire stretch would be as backwoods and desolate as Heath. (Actually come to think of it a lot of it looks like 123 through Norton, or 1A around the prison.) Some parts actually are multi-lane, and have steel barrier between the lanes of travel.
Next time I'll remember to check Google Maps first to make sure remote parts of a main road I regularly drive on match the parts I'm familiar with.
--- Quote from: Penquin47 on 28 Mar 2011, 21:31 ---...How the frak does an 8.7 mile journey take 20 minutes???
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The mostly tiny two lane non-divided state highway probably has a 40 MPH speed limit and lots of intersections.
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It's technically a state highway part of the way, but no one driving it would call it that. Coming from downtown Amherst, it's a normal town street until you hit Hadley, then a strip mall-ish kind of place a bit less than half the way, then a typical exurban road until you get into town. Numbered route != highway.
Things seem further apart when there are actually people there, especially when there have been people there more than about three weeks.
DSL:
So a Texas rancher is visiting a distant relation, a farmer, in Vermont. Texas asks Vermont, how big is your farm? Vermont thinks a minute, says ... "Well, it goes over to that stone wall over there and up against that stand of trees over there."
Texas smirks and says, "Why, on my ranch in Texas, I can start my pickup at one end of the ranch, floor the gas pedal and, at the end of the day, still not have reached the other end of my land."
Vermont clucks in sympathy and says "Rough, ayuh! I had a truck like that once, myself."
... No, I didn't make that up. I believe I saw it in Isaac Asimov's first joke book, and I don't know where he got it.
jwhouk:
--- Quote from: TheEvilDog on 29 Mar 2011, 07:38 ---
--- Quote from: iduguphergrave on 29 Mar 2011, 07:34 ---I think she's here to stay (watch, tomorrow she won't just get put on a bus, she'll get hit by a bus).
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But you've just cancelled the bus attack by saying it. But she also can't stay, but she can't go, but she can't stay... Nurr, nurr, nurr <head explodes>
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(Na-na-na NAHRM nah nah) "Girl you got to let me know... Should I stay or should I go..."
Tormuse:
I've lived in Toronto my whole life and I've never owned a car, always having taken transit or riding my bike. I'm used to journeys of an hour or more, so it's always bugged me when people aren't willing to take and/or complain about a 20 minute journey.
The best part is my friends at the other end of town who own a car and who take it for granted that I'm willing to make the 2-hour transit ride every time I visit them, but complain about how long the 30 minute drive is it takes them to visit me.
Carl-E:
--- Quote from: Tormuse on 29 Mar 2011, 10:47 ---The best part is my friends at the other end of town who own a car and who take it for granted that I'm willing to make the 2-hour transit ride every time I visit them, but complain about how long the 30 minute drive is it takes them to visit me.
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...and there you have it, in a nutshell. Unenlightened self interest. People expecting their friends to stop by and visit, no matter the inconvenience, who wouldn't go out of their way to do so themselves.
Laziness (and/or lameness) knows no bounds!
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