Anime USA 2013 – page 2
Hey, did you know that Rock Creek Parkway switches from two-way to one-way during rush hour? ‘Cos we didn’t. And when you’re already trying to see through a storm while fumbling through streets that were deliberately designed to confuse invading armies, seeing people suddenly driving the wrong way on the left is REALLY disorienting.
And yes, I know I lived up there for several years, but that’s not the sort of thing you pay attention to when you don’t have a car.
(Historical Notes: Past Me is talking a little bit of bollocks on that last bit, because a person just walking everywhere absolutely WOULD notice changes in traffic patters like that if he had to walk through them on a daily basis. But that’s just the thing, the overwhelming majority of the Rock Creek nonsense was down where random pedestrians like me never had to think about it. That, or right in the middle of all the monuments, and I barely ever went down there anyway. Even having said all THAT, though, I do remember occasionally walking past the entrances to Rock Creek Parkway near Georgetown and being weirded out over how they’d be blocked off at seemingly random hours of the day. I really have no excuse to have been caught so off guard by this. You’re reeeaally stretching for the joke here, Past Me.)
Driving into DC is always an experience. Not sure what kind, but it is always an experience.
There’s a joke to be made about Washington D.C. being more trouble to get to than it’s worth, but I don’t feel like going through the trouble of making it.