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
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― 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
― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― JordanC (JordanC), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link
― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link
And just for the record, 28 has been not-so-great (getting to know you fine folks better aside).
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― grbchv! (gbx), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:17 (seventeen years ago) link
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― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― danno martinez (danno martinez), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― sweet tater (sweet tater), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:22 (seventeen years ago) link
I am vastly happier at 31 than I was at 21. I was a reckless, shiftless, aimless person at 21. Now I feel a little bit calmer and a lot happier. Less like jumping around all the time, but more content. I like the 30s.
― Armando Grouse (Armando ), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:27 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm feeling a lot more sick now, so Nick is going to pick me up early. Sadly though, he's coming all the way from Evanston. Owww!
― Calico (calico), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link
Huh. I wouldn't. What happened when you were 27? Whenever I fantasize about going back to an earlier point in my life, I only imagine it happening with me knowing what I know now. Otherwise, I really don't feel a need to relive it.
― Calico (calico), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link
Also, are you guys able to remember what it was like "at age 24" without calculating what year it was? I have no idea what I did when I was 24, but if you remind me that it was 2003, everything comes into focus.
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 11 December 2006 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link