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You must experience, first hand, driving in Washington,D.C. to fully understand. I remember when I moved there from New York, in 1963, my first several attempts at getting around by motor car were catasthropes. I would often end up crossing a bridge and winding up in Virginia. Of, course I stayed for almost 40 years, so I learned the city pretty well. And it was a very nice place to live until George W. Bush arrived.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Sat Nov 10th, 2007 at 05:59:03 PM EST
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If roundabouts were the problem, wasn't your current home Paris a lot more confusing?

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sat Nov 10th, 2007 at 06:03:43 PM EST
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Of course. I hate driving in Paris. When I go in to spend two days in my studio there, I park the car and don't touch it until I go home to the country.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!
by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Sun Nov 11th, 2007 at 12:16:37 AM EST
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(Note: I don't drive, so I may not get some subtlety of the problem.)

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.
by DoDo on Sat Nov 10th, 2007 at 06:04:27 PM EST
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It really must be experienced to be appreciated.  I've never seen people drive like this.  Not in Palm Beach, not in Miami, not in Atlanta.  Hell, not even in Tallahassee surrounded by half-drunken college students in tricked out sports cars.

My attempts were equally, if not more, hideous.  A friend and I had taken a ride around downtown, since he'd never visited.  Needed to get on Memorial to get back across the river to the Parkway.  Somehow wound up on Ohio.  "Do you know where we need to be?" he asked.  "Yeah, about a hundred feet higher and going West."

Wound up spending an hour and a half going up to, and then through, Georgetown to the Key Bridge.

Needless to say, I'm not a big fan of Mr L'Enfant, and I haven't driven in the city since.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sun Nov 11th, 2007 at 04:24:58 PM EST
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