Psychotomy

So, this post is primarily about the drive up to Connecticut this weekend

First off, it cost 7$ to get out of MD. Then 4$ more to get into Delaware. WTF am i going to go when I’m going across an effing bridge from MD to DE??? LAEM

Then 7$ for the NJTP, and 8$ more to get INTO NYC on the GW? Which is right after the NJTP … come ON people.

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Directions from mapquest are insane. Actually, most online directions are, but we tend to print mapquest. First off, they tend to take you into every local-lane cut off. Even when you’ve got another 100 mi on the same road. Riiiight.

Then coming off the NJTP to the GWBridge, they had something like “take lower (local) lanes, bear left, merge into upper (express) lanes. Follow lower lanes, take upper” Of course, I never even saw a legal method for switching from upper to lower, so I don’t know what that was about, unless it was to get into the lanes to go from lower to upper, and then NOT go to upper. Maybe.

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Followed by NY having trouble with math. And by that, I mean my mom, who is number dyslexic and failed her way through high school math, is better at counting.

Because we wanted exit 1C. Saw 1. Saw 2. Then saw 3 was the road we wanted. Then it was 1C, then it was 3N, then 3, then 3S. Then 1C and 3N and we were on the road.

Which eventually we wanted exit 4. We got on at 8, and we’re supposed to go ~7 or 8 mi. Maybe it meant 14? Well, 4 mi we hit 14 (wow, fast exits!), and then another mile and … uh … exit 1.

12 …. 13 …. 14 … 1. … uh …

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took 45 minutes to go ~5mi over the GW and to the exit we wanted. Partially this was because we had 12 toll plazas open, thus 12 lanes. Then within ~2 buslengths we were down to 3 lanes. Then 6 more entered. Then we were down to 2, 4, 3. Why do tolls always do that? “Here, spread out so we can take the money faster, then we’re going to not label a godsdamned thing for about 10′, by which point you should all be in a single file line again, because that’s effing obvious”

I hate tolls.

And this trip has reminded me why I NEVER DRIVE IN NYC. And, I suppose, why I don’t drive into DC, either. We shoulda taken the train :o

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