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life lessons learned on my d.c. trip…

posted on December 28, 2005 2:16 AM

  • pay more attention to your atlases. just thinking 'i go 59 north to 75 north/west to 81 north/west' can end up getting you lost in knoxville and nearly end you up in kentucky. which is a pain if you are trying to get to virginia. the actual route was 59 to 24 to 75 to 40/75 to 40 to 81. at least i saw some gorgeous views driving through the appalachians.
  • if you are stuck in traffic in knoxville and are singing along with the new darkness album at the top of your lungs, trying to hit all the high notes, people in other cars will give you funny looks.
  • if you do not want to look like a tourist, be sure to read the directions for using your subway pass on the turnstile before you try to walk through. and make sure of which train you are getting on, so that you will know which platform to walk to, so that you do not have to switch platforms three times in an attempt to get on the right train. this is especially true if you are from a city that seems to believe that extensive public transportation is immoral and thusly have no experience with the concept.
  • do not speed through virginia
  • do not speed through tennessee
  • if you find a cheap motel6 in the downtown washington, d.c. area, do not stay there alone. trust me.
  • when in the heart of east tennessee, watch your gas gauge. you do not want to run out of gas out there.
  • if you are walking down a hill in a parking lot, and you see a shiny patch that looks like ice...it probably is.
  • in a lesson totally unrelated to the previous one, if you have ever seen those scenes in screwball comedies where a character slips on ice and their feet fly up past their head and thought that was impossible...it is, in fact, quite possible.
  • and in the final lesson, which is, i assure you, utterly unrelated to the previous two lessons; bayer is not that effective at removing back pain.

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