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yay today's xkcd
http://xkcd.com/1155
So okay: detailed directions from my present metro area to my childhood home are not difficult, but thanks to a little goofiness w/r/t the interstate system they can sort of seem that way. (There's a couple of times where you are required to change from one numbered highway to another by remaining on the road you're on, which is the exact opposite of intuitive, I think. Also there's a time where you are required to remain on the numbered highway you've been on by exiting and navigating some local roads and getting on a different highway, because Breezewood.) So I told the Gentleman Caller that once he was headed out of town, he should stay on the highest even-numbered westbound interstate available to him until a particular exit in Ohio after which I would give detailed directions. (And it is so! 270 ends at 70. You pick up 76 at Breezewood; for a while 70 and 76 run together, and when they separate, you want to stay on 76. At some point 80 joins 76, and when they separate, you want to stay with 80. Is it or is it not a piece of cake?)
He thought this was an amusing feature of the path from here to there. My mother, when I pointed it out to her as I was telling her how to drive home, didn't think it was amusing at all, and made me write down directions in a level of detail sometimes including which lane I thought she should be in. Good thing we're not all alike. :-)
So okay: detailed directions from my present metro area to my childhood home are not difficult, but thanks to a little goofiness w/r/t the interstate system they can sort of seem that way. (There's a couple of times where you are required to change from one numbered highway to another by remaining on the road you're on, which is the exact opposite of intuitive, I think. Also there's a time where you are required to remain on the numbered highway you've been on by exiting and navigating some local roads and getting on a different highway, because Breezewood.) So I told the Gentleman Caller that once he was headed out of town, he should stay on the highest even-numbered westbound interstate available to him until a particular exit in Ohio after which I would give detailed directions. (And it is so! 270 ends at 70. You pick up 76 at Breezewood; for a while 70 and 76 run together, and when they separate, you want to stay on 76. At some point 80 joins 76, and when they separate, you want to stay with 80. Is it or is it not a piece of cake?)
He thought this was an amusing feature of the path from here to there. My mother, when I pointed it out to her as I was telling her how to drive home, didn't think it was amusing at all, and made me write down directions in a level of detail sometimes including which lane I thought she should be in. Good thing we're not all alike. :-)