• People in Winston don't say "excuse me." ever. They prefer to wait, looking all around or down at their feet, until you happen to notice their predicament and move aside without being asked. This happened today when J and I were at Moe's .. this woman tried to squeeze behind him in line, but there was barely any room. J, not knowing someone was trying to get past him, stepped back as if on cue and crushed her against the dividing wall, and the bitch still didn't say excuse me or so much as acknowledge that she just got schooled. You do not encounter this kind of fuckery in Richmond, so it surprises me every time it happens.



• This city was planned really stupidly. All the parking lots are an exercise in frustration. There's just not enough room, not enough easy exits. The mall area is the biggest joke of all. 80% of the commerce in this town takes place on Hanes Mall Blvd, or at the Hanes Mall itself, and the surrounding area. The lights are looooong, and of course the traffic gets backed way up and curling around here and there until mayhem ensues. It's easy to get caught in a traffic jam there, so the best thing to do is to avoid the scene entirely during the holidays, which is putting a serious crimp in my holiday shopping.



• The topography here is really roly-poly, and I really like it except when I'm at a traffic light on an incline. Also, everytime we look at a house, J points out that the property is "not flat." lol



• There are some stunningly gorgeous areas in this little ol' town. We just looked at this horrid fixer-upper of a house and really wanted to like it because it was on a fabulous, beautiful street in an optimal location. But it was ridiculous. Our realtor said it was the kind of house that rich ppl buy and tear down so they can build a new house on the lot.



• On old John M Gold highway (nc-52), the exit ramps are suicidally short. People get stuck on them all the time because NC drivers do not believe in "helpin' 'em merge".



• NC drivers = the world's worst and most assholish, and I've become an even bigger asshole, just to compensate.

marriage is a wonderful thing.
but you get a lot of little things with it.
it's not perfect.
they's love in it.
they's happiness in it.
but they's also sorrow, hatred, and madness in it.
-Jesco White, "Dancing Outlaw"

this movie rocks.

So basically, I pigged out at the mall.  I had the best time, too.