I would like to let everyone know about New Mexico. Not to be confused with New Jersey, New Haven or New Flavor Crusted Hot Pockets.
I recently had the honor of driving through New Mexico and was rather impressed with most of the state. In Shiprock there is a place called Thatsaburger.That's right, someone had the stones to come right out and latch onto the coat tails of Whataburger. The only way to make it better would be to open up an O'donalds right next door.
Albuquerque is nice especially because you can arrange some of the letters and spell out Kobe Bryant is queer. As long as you use the original Native American spelling Albuquequekoebryntis. (Sorry if I offended any Lakers fans, but if there are any Lakers fans reading this, congratulations on overcoming illiteracy, not too many Lakers fans have.)
Obviously New Mexico has Roswell. Or is it obvious? And where are the first fifty areas anyway?
But unfortunately there is a rather large cockroach in this otherwise delicious sundae. That cockroach is Gallup. It is a city of pure evil. If for no other reason that when I was stopped at a red light I noticed the flashing red hand warning any pedestrians in the area that the light would soon change. Accompanying this flashing five digits and palm were numbers descending in sequential order. I was happy to see such technology in a dismal looking place and counted down as it went to zero. the numbers stopped and I looked at the light in anticipation of cross traffic getting the yellow to red, and in doing so, offering me a green light.
Unfortunately that is not how the story goes. In fact, the light did not turn yellow as the countdown terminated. I waited several seconds and then several more until the light finally changed.
What kind of world do we live in? If you go to see a shuttle launch and count down from the T minus 10 what is supposed to happen when you get to zero? Blastoff!!! Not some sort of lackadaisical, I'll take off when I'm good and ready.
New Mexico you are a jewel of the west, please do something about Gallup. Thank you.
Tidbits From Travel:
-All the signs I saw in Colorado were actually shaped like the state.
+Every time I saw a sign that read "Pass With Care" I was three quarters tempted to pass some one just so I could wave and mouth "I love you."
*The signs that caution "Lights on for Safety" should be set on a timer so that after dark it can say something like:
Lights on...
to not be stupid.
so you can read this sign.
because that is what they're for.
=I think that when you prove your GPS wrong or find a shortcut that it didn't know about, the GPS should respond in one of four ways:
A. It should apologize
B. Should say something like, "You cheeky monkey. Don't you have some tricks up your sleeves now?"
C. It should compliment you on your superior navigational skills
D. It should throw a tantrum. Cuss at you, and then say, "If you think you're so great at getting around why don't you do it by yourself," and then turn itself off.
Really anything is better than hearing "recalculating" a billion times.
I recently had the honor of driving through New Mexico and was rather impressed with most of the state. In Shiprock there is a place called Thatsaburger.That's right, someone had the stones to come right out and latch onto the coat tails of Whataburger. The only way to make it better would be to open up an O'donalds right next door.
Albuquerque is nice especially because you can arrange some of the letters and spell out Kobe Bryant is queer. As long as you use the original Native American spelling Albuquequekoebryntis. (Sorry if I offended any Lakers fans, but if there are any Lakers fans reading this, congratulations on overcoming illiteracy, not too many Lakers fans have.)
Obviously New Mexico has Roswell. Or is it obvious? And where are the first fifty areas anyway?
But unfortunately there is a rather large cockroach in this otherwise delicious sundae. That cockroach is Gallup. It is a city of pure evil. If for no other reason that when I was stopped at a red light I noticed the flashing red hand warning any pedestrians in the area that the light would soon change. Accompanying this flashing five digits and palm were numbers descending in sequential order. I was happy to see such technology in a dismal looking place and counted down as it went to zero. the numbers stopped and I looked at the light in anticipation of cross traffic getting the yellow to red, and in doing so, offering me a green light.
Unfortunately that is not how the story goes. In fact, the light did not turn yellow as the countdown terminated. I waited several seconds and then several more until the light finally changed.
What kind of world do we live in? If you go to see a shuttle launch and count down from the T minus 10 what is supposed to happen when you get to zero? Blastoff!!! Not some sort of lackadaisical, I'll take off when I'm good and ready.
New Mexico you are a jewel of the west, please do something about Gallup. Thank you.
Tidbits From Travel:
-All the signs I saw in Colorado were actually shaped like the state.
+Every time I saw a sign that read "Pass With Care" I was three quarters tempted to pass some one just so I could wave and mouth "I love you."
*The signs that caution "Lights on for Safety" should be set on a timer so that after dark it can say something like:
Lights on...
to not be stupid.
so you can read this sign.
because that is what they're for.
=I think that when you prove your GPS wrong or find a shortcut that it didn't know about, the GPS should respond in one of four ways:
A. It should apologize
B. Should say something like, "You cheeky monkey. Don't you have some tricks up your sleeves now?"
C. It should compliment you on your superior navigational skills
D. It should throw a tantrum. Cuss at you, and then say, "If you think you're so great at getting around why don't you do it by yourself," and then turn itself off.
Really anything is better than hearing "recalculating" a billion times.
And my wife said she doesn't like it when I close my blog posts abruptly, but I'm lazy.
