Conventional Wisdom

Under normal circumstances, I’ll happily park my vehicle on Thursday and just walk everywhere all weekend. However, between the rain and my not wanting to deal with I-285 traffic on foot, I drove back and forth between the hotel and the con this time. Thus, I got a big heaping dose of people frantically looking for ANY kind of parking spot. If you were walking anywhere in the parking lot, people would just drive right up, stick their head out the window, and ask which car you were about to move. I don’t know know if this says more about how aggressive Atlanta drivers are, or how polite Atlanta pedestrians must be. I mean, I can think of a lot of places where you’d get stabbed in the face for trying something like that!

…and you know what’s funny? The hotel I was in last year was more than twice the distance from the con, and I walked THAT just fine.

(Historical Notes: If you’ve only been down to the Galleria recently, you need to understand that the big pedestrian bridge connecting the mall parking lot to the stadium complex wasn’t there at the time.  If you wanted to get from a hotel on the other side of the exit over to the mall on foot, you had to make it through two sets of traffic lights on either side of the Interstate, and that wouldn’t have been fun even if it WASN’T raining.  Granted, even WITH the new bridge, that still wouldn’t have helped with the rain, so I might have still driven back and forth anyway.)