SOUTH FLORIDA

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[Annie Where-but-here]

Humidity, mixed with the friction of a thousand clicking turn-signals....it could happen. Maybe if y'all drive the wrong way for a while? Nah, you tried that already.

Since this column, the FWM has grown stronger, attracting sucking in Paris Hilton and the Kardashians. Maybe the Rays will get Manny Ramirez...bwa-ha-ha....

[Jeff Meyerson]

I guess they should have listened to Dave. But noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!

[nursecindy]

So, where's Disney World?

[Annie Where-but-here]

Lake Okeechobee extends a warm, Florida welcome to its newest neighbor - Mel Gibson.

[bonmot]

I think I've driven throught that interchange, blindly following the GPS directions and hoping.

That worked, but I don't think I could've navigated it on my own. The roads there are more poorly marked than in Northern Virginia. Or Tulsa.

[nursecindy]

After looking at that picture I'm so glad I live in a rural area. I would last about 5 mins. on a road like that. About a week ago I had a charge on my credit card that I didn't understand so I called the company. It was only three dollars but I was curious. The credit card lady said maybe it was for parking. I told her usually we just pull into Walmart's parking lot and they don't charge. If there are more than 5 cars at a stoplight we get nervous and wonder if an evacuation is going on somewhere and no one has told us.

[Annie Where-but-here]

My dad used to design interchanges like this for the area just north of NYC. He also drank beer.

[Horace LaBadie]

I plugged this column into the hot new website, I Write Like. Dave writes like Cory Doctorow. Dave ought to develop his own style and stop stealing from Canadians.

[Not My Usual Alias]

NC --
Isnt't that the ears and the face for Mickey in the upper left? I also see a lot of Goofy in the picture.

[tash]

I see Goofy.... but then I got contact lenses.

[tash]

The Magnet, it's there, I can feel its pull. Or repelment. One of those.

[nursecindy]

I just assume that Disney World is Florida. o/t I know this is going to cause a lot of tears on this blog.... Lindsey Lohan is going to jail tomorrow. Get hold of yourselves. I'm sure she'll be fine. o/t

[Hammond Rye]

And every road has a toll booth...

[Mike]

I'm from Southern California, and all this stuff looks pretty normal to me. In fact, most of those people are from Southern California.

[OC Dolphin]

Shhh, Mike!
We've owned that weird magnet label for far too long. Let these amate.., check that, nice people have it if they so want it.

[djtonyb]

Bah! I navigate the Golden Glades interchange all the time. The Magnet has had no effect on me! Or judi! Or Siouxie! Or MartiniShark! Or... Ok, maybe those aren't good examples..

[OC Dolphin]

btw,
Our SoCa interchanges were designed by M.C. Escher.

[judi the barberho]

rofl ;) i go through it every time i come to work, and now that they have the pay-for-actually-moving lane, i am fine with it. costs me $1-6 to get to work (and get home) but that is a paltry sum for avoiding the headache of driving 95 with, you know, the riff-raff.

[judi the prig]

rofl ;) i go through it every time i come to work, and now that they have the pay-for-actually-moving lane, i am fine with it. costs me $1-6 to get to work (and get home) but that is a paltry sum for avoiding the headache of driving 95 with, you know, the riff-raff.

[trustf8]

You 2 judis should carpool ;)

[Annie Where-but-here]

snork @ trustf8. Doppelgangers of the world, unite!

pssst - judi - if you want the bot to post your comment only once, it will cost you a dollar.

[Jeff Meyerson]

bonmot - excellent point about northern Virginia. Anytime I get near Crystal City and the Pentagon area my usually excellent sense of direction conks out. The signs in that area were surely designed by Congress.

judi, by "riff-raff" I'm assuming you mean people like the family I saw stopped in the center of I-95 attempting to pick up and reload their fallen couch on the back of their pickup?

As Dave would say, ISIANMTU.

[Siouxie *riff* Raff]

Soon we won't have a choice BUT to pay. Now they added extra tolls (HAMMIE (*WAVES*) is right). I just got a new SunPass thingie that sticks to my windshield (as opposed to the old SunPass thingie that had velcro).

If you see me, I'm the one waving my fist each time I pass under the tolls.

*GET OFF MY ROAD*

[Ralph]

There's a new design for weirdness magnets. It's called the Vortex Junction.

It can replace all these.

[nursecindy]

Speaking of weirdness magnets my brother arrived in Florida today. Siouxie, he is single.

[Mr Death]

If you look closely enough in the center (or, if you're Canadian like me, the centre) of the picture, you can just make out a North-going Zax...

[Coconuts]

Funny Story...FL turnpike north just closed (due to smoke from fire) as we were in the ticket lane with our geezer bus. Can't really turn around geezer bus towing a car very well. Toll attendant told us we had to go south 1 exit and wouldn't have to pay toll. Lady at next toll booth didn't get the memo. We had a Mexican standoff as I refused to pay. Traffic backed up behind us and she finally let us through, threatening to mail us a citation, which we never got. Well, it was funny to me, anyhow.

[bonmot]

I never thought I'd *snork* @ Mr. Death, (snigger behind Death's back maybe) but there you go.

Dr. Seuss was a genius.

[nannie]

Now I understand why everyone drives with their turn signal on...

[wiredog]

Where I lived in Southern Utah there was one freeway. Two lanes each way. Hardly used. In town people driving down Main Street would stop and chat with neighbors driving the other way. Just stop, in the middle of Main Street. They would also stop for green lights sometimes.

Twice a year we had traffic jams, when the ranchers were running the sheep to or from the mountain pastures.

[BA]

The Golden Glades interchange put my cardiologist's kids through college.