I have to go to Halstead and Randolph. Is that a reasonable area for a directionally impaired woman to walk around at 1:30 or so in the afternoon?
― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost to jenny, yes, you'll be fine. that's oprahtown.
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost: Halsted/Randolph? Yeah, I'd say so.
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link
pissed off at myself about this.
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link
That's kind of awesome. Salami + balls.
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― grbchv! (gbx), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:21 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/onion_news2085.article.jpg
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link
er, xpost.
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:25 (seventeen years ago) link
Anyway, all that plus the potential of street harassment would assure that I took a cab. But if Oprah lives there, I'm cool. And Kenan, you'd be amazed at the perfectly benign circumstances under which I can get totally and completely lost.
Skokie is a pretty big 'burb.
― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link
Neither can I. I was hoping the headline and graphic would get my point across.
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:27 (seventeen years ago) link
We need to get you a seeing eye dog. Or a seeing north dog. Erm.
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link
Well, her studios are around there, on Washington.
There are tons of food warehouses around there. If you see a place selling meat or produce, buy some. It's good and fresh and wholesale.
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link
jenny: stay away from boston if you can't navigate chicago.
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link
I've been to Boston a few times but I've never been left to my own navigatory devices. I am self-aware enough to never put myself in a situation where I have to get myself from point A to point B without assistance.
― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:34 (seventeen years ago) link
Seconded. My trouble is that I'm so used to the grid system that anything even slightly old-world messes me up bad. "What do you mean this street goes north-northwest-ish??!"
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link
the grid system kind of freaked me out when i moved here. it was too easy, and seemed alien. i used to walk my dog for hours just trying to get lost, and never did.
― JuliaA (JuliaA), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:42 (seventeen years ago) link
i never understood how people could know what direction they were going until i realized that not all streets were once puritan-era cow paths.
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link
Let's get lost, let them send out alarms
And though they'll think us rather rude
Let's tell the world we're in that crazy mood
Let's defrost, in a romantic mist
Let's get crossed, off everybody's list
To celebrate this night we found each other
Darling, let's get lost
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:46 (seventeen years ago) link
I'd suggest that people take the el to Skokie for the Old Orchard mall, except the Yellow Line doesn't actually extend that far. Therefore, I'm sticking with my Jewish conspiracy angle.
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link
I'd imagine not. It would make no sense. But even looking at a map of Boston or London or some such gives me heart palpitations.
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:50 (seventeen years ago) link
That's the kind of directions I can understand!!! Probably because I grew up in an area built on Puritan cow paths. It wasn't until I moved here to Chicago that I even made an effort to figure out cardinal directions (hence compass).
― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 11 December 2006 17:57 (seventeen years ago) link
They would, however, call streets by unofficial names. So instead of like, Route 9 they would tell you to take King Cole Farm Road or something.
― Lance Rock (pullapartgirl), Monday, 11 December 2006 18:23 (seventeen years ago) link
Navigating in DC made me cry and cry once too, and Nick was the one driving. There are all these fucking turn-arounds like at the Arc de Triumph. They screw with your head I tell you!
― Calico (calico), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Calico (calico), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link
"Tony Vallencourt: Boston to Nashua? You goin' up there to buy liquor pally?
Stanley Sperrow: Aya, no sales tax.
Tony Vallencourt: Alright, you just gotta shoot up 95, but watch your ass crossin' over the border. Those state troopers are outa control.
Stanley Sperrow: That's correct Tony! "
if you're going from boston to nashua you wouldn't take fucking 95, that follows the coast going northeast, you'd need to take 128 to ROUTE 3, take the lowell connector then cross the bridge at 110. fuckin' morons.
sorry for perpetuating a sterotype but i'm getting cranky about stuff like this in my old age. i was sitting in a bar this weekend yelling at someone who was doing a piss-poor job of parallel parking outside. it actually made me angry that they couldn't do it.
your favorite cranky old man,ktr
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:38 (seventeen years ago) link
― JuliaA (JuliaA), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link
Hahahahaha I do this from my kitchen window at people parking on my street all the time.
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link