Whew.
My family was here yesterday, but I'm pretty sure they're gone now. I grabbed some dinner last night and my mom told me there was cake in the fridge. "Sweets are the last thing I need right now, I ate so much crap over the weekend." "That's okay, I'll just give it to the kids
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Also, never come to the Midwest. All of our roads are like that. I mean, minus the water, we don't have water unless you drive along the Mississippi or some other river, but hey. Usually it's more corn fields and pastures to either side of the road, though, with farmhouses sprinkled here and there.
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The roads in the east half of Long Island are like that, and I've driven along interstates like that, too. It's just dark and road and your headlights, and it's the scariest freaking thing. And then a car comes along in the other direction and your eyes are drawn to the light, of course, but because it's so dark out, they have their brights on and you just looked dead into brights and now you can't see which is a bad thing because you're fucking driving and you're gonna crash and oh my god I think I need a paper bag to breathe into. I honestly do not understand it. And the east is densely populated compared to the west? Oh ( ... )
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Ahaha, no worries! It's like... all that fear right there?That's what I feel when I'm in a city. There is too much going on. Everything is too close together, there's nowhere you can go to get away, there are people there always, it's stifling and claustrophobic and mildly terrifying. I'd rather someone drop me off the in the middle of a field somewhere.
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Ahahaha, fears are so relative. I think for me, it's that I just have to know where I am at all times. I can't tell direction in, like, Chinatown or something (tiny windy unnumbered streets EVERYWHERE), so I avoid it. I can't tell direction in a big open space because there are no landmarks. I was intensely watching a little airplane icon progress on a map of the west coast on the flight from Vancouver to LA like my life depended on it. I don't like sitting in the backseat of a car because I can't see where we're going. Things like that. but at least in a city there's always somewhere to go to get help if something happens, or shelter at the very least. if you're lost in a cornfield somewhere with no one and no cover, you're boned ... and probably axe murdered. XD
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Aaah, I gotcha. And honestly it's not hard to find your way outdoors, even if you don't have street signs. Like, I can tell what direction is north based on where the sun is and can estimate how many miles away a road is if I'm standing on top of a hill or something like that. You just adapt to your environment. And in the country there are highway patrolmen everywhere and county police that you just have on speed dial and they'll come find you wherever you are. And shelter's easy to find, haha. I can understand the fear of not knowing where you are, though. A couple times I wandered off of trails in Colorado and couldn't find my way back for a little bit and just ended up wandering aimlessly through the mountainside. It's really disconcerting. :/ Though I wouldn't worry about axe murderers unless you're in Appalachia. But you can't trust people in the ( ... )
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But the sun changes and ... miles?! Those are loooong. Why work so hard?
"And in the country there are highway patrolmen everywhere and county police ... they'll come find you wherever you are."
:O I did not know this! They'll just come get you?! There must not be much else to do....
I'm only joking about the axe murdering. XD I know it doesn't happen. ... Often. *giggle* No one -- except firefighters, obviously -- has axes here, so if there is an axe, I must be out of the city.
people not in a city Y U NO mind own business? and sure no one in the city's gonna be your best friend, but most people will happily help you if you ask. "brusque" is probably a better word. XD
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Yeah! If you're stuck or in trouble or lost you can call the highway patrol and they'll come get you. They all drive trucks anyway, it's not like they can't get to you. And I mean LOL yeah I'm thinking specifically of the cops in the part of Iowa my family's from and nothing ever happens in those towns.
Ahahaha I figured you were but I'm still serious about Appalachia. And possibly the Ozark region of Missouri/Arkansas. There is some serious Deliverance shit that goes down in those parts.
IT'S HARD NOT TO KNOW EVERYONE'S BUSINESS BECAUSE YOU SEE THE SAME DAMN PEOPLE EVER DAY. Like I'm used to going to a random stranger, asking for help with something mundane, and then getting invited to dinner/offered a bed to sleep in/given free food or labor or some other ( ... )
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Oh don't worry about me finding myself in Appalachia or the Ozarks. You've scarred me forever, and I'm going to stay within sight of a major city if not actually in the major city for the rest of my life. XD
but i saw the same people at work every day for 2 1/2 years and i didn't know much about them Why would they offer you things? Favors are favors, they don't need to be repaid. That seems pushy and rude, if you ask me! And they don't know who you are. You could be a crazy person, you could steal things from their houses while they're asleep. And you don't know who they are, they could poison your food, do a crappy job of whatever was offered and you can't track them down if someone ( ... )
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LOL no, you should hit the West or the North sometimes, particularly Colorado/Wyoming/Montana. My favorite thing is driving along an isolated highway and seeing nothing but countryside for miles and miles because, as previously stated, cities make me really claustrophobic, haha. :')
What but how? Girl I can even tell you what kind of underwear my coworkers prefer! Then again I'm super nosy and chatty and that's just kind of how we are, haha. Wait wait what, it's rude to, like, fix someone's car and then insist ( ... )
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