Category Archives: Traffic

Cabbin’ it in LA: It’s Text-a-Taxi

September 4, 2009 – 9:41 am

Photo credit to elakerfan on Flickr
I’m going to New York next week. Though I’m very much a subway girl while there, there will be a lot of taxis – and at that, ones you can hail. I doubt any of us ever instructed anybody to “hail a cab” as a means of getting around Los [...]

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On Traffic and Driving Stick

August 26, 2008 – 10:08 am

When I’m asked how I drive a stick shift in congested, traffic-laden Los Angeles, I respond with the fact that having a manual is actually the only way I could deal with that traffic effectively. I don’t think it’s ironic; I just think people don’t really know what they’re talking about. Probably 90% of the cars in Europe are [...]

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Meet Chelsea

February 12, 2008 – 5:24 pm

As I left pulled away from Judy Jettason, my heart sank. I kept looking back and ultimately, I felt very sad. She was my first love ever. I felt a cheating fool – I was abandoning her for someone hotter, faster and younger.
I told myself that I tried my hardest. That I gave her my [...]

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To Always Be Late

December 26, 2007 – 2:39 pm

Today, I read a New York Times article on John Edwards’ tendency to be late to his presidential campaign functions. I don’t feel particularly supportive of or against any particular candidate as of yet, but the subject of the article struck me as something curious - that constant tardiness is an issue large enough to warrant [...]

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I’m Turning Smart

October 21, 2007 – 10:30 pm

I’m taking a break from my Europe posts for a bit but actually complimenting them, in a way. This time, it’ll be a sort of European auto edition one.
Because I did it. I reserved a Smart Car.

They’re coming to The States in the first quarter of 2008. And, if I go through with the reservation [...]

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8 Reasons Why You Should Tailgate

May 17, 2007 – 7:56 am

In the Midwest, when someone mentions tailgating you would be inclined to assume the type where sports fanatics socialize before games and have good times with beer, bratwurst, ribs and perhaps chicken with the SUV trunks popped in the stadium parking lot. Let me start off by saying that I reside in Los Angeles, [...]

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Changes Are Good

May 1, 2007 – 12:40 pm

The danger about living really close (as in 2 city blocks close) to your workplace is that if you’re a procrastinator to the Nth power like me, instead of being late some of the time–or even half of the time–you will be late all of the time, by 5 minutes. Or 10 minutes. But that’s [...]

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Don’t Drive Like An Idiot

April 9, 2007 – 3:01 pm

This isn’t really a new post, but thanks to the suggestion of a friend (which confirmed a nagging thought of mine), I decided to make this portion of a previous post its own.  I figure, people can always benefit from personal accounts of seeing idiots driving. 
Drive safe out there.

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