On parking: I read a study years ago about people's parking habits in big lots, and it came out, obviously, that driving around and around for a good spot ended up in more time and more stress then just parking wherever. Which is totally obvious when you hear it, and yet?
I park way out in the vacant distance when shopping at large grocery stores or Wal-Mart. I figure the walk and lack of heightened blood pressure will both do me good. (Though I suppose I make up for the latter when I get home with a car full of groceries and do 3 loops around the block looking for a parking space.)
No, that's all TJs. Add careening kids with non-attentive parents on weekend afternoons, as well.
Ha! That's why I take a long lunch and go to TJ's during the week. If I get there before 11:30, I can be in and out in half an hour.
Yup. I just try to go before 3:00 on a weekday, because then I miss the parents who pick up their kids from school and then go to TJs with their progeny in tow.
Hot damn, people - the midwest looks like a scene from Day After Tomorrow and there are 200 posts about Trader Joe's??
Speaking of which, I now desperately want to go to Trader Joe's. And the train that would normally take me right there isn't running in that direction until MAY. (Not that there aren't workarounds, but still. Or I could go to the one at Union Square, but the Brooklyn TJ's is so much bigger and nicer.)
Yeah, I tend to park far away too, because I figure I'm young and able bodied and I can walk that distance and it's probably good for me. But I live in a place where there's always parking, so.
I don't have a TJs. Sadface.
-6 this morning, so it's warmer than yesterday, yay?
Wisconsin got shafted. If Wisconsin gets Miller
Wisconsin should be Leinenkugel. If only because it's so much fun to say.
And Louisiana should be Dixie.
Jessica -- I went to TJs last night, and the shelves were pretty much picked clean -- it looks like the slushpocalypse interrupted their deliveries. It's not worth going today anyway.
Hot damn, people - the midwest looks like a scene from Day After Tomorrow and there are 200 posts about Trader Joe's??
An apocalypse makes us think of yummy food?
No Trader Joe's here yet, but that will change fairly soon.
On parking: I read a study years ago about people's parking habits in big lots, and it came out, obviously, that driving around and around for a good spot ended up in more time and more stress then just parking wherever. Which is totally obvious when you hear it, and yet?
absolutely. Upon entering a parking garage, I immediately go to the top or bottom, figuring that the extra 30 seconds in the elevator is far better than the ever widening concentric circles that people do to try to get a space near the door. Unless I know that I'm going to be carrying something heavy, I don't care.
The United States of Beer.
Epic? What is Epic? Where's the Squatter's? Where's Wasatch Brewing? Where's the Polygamy Porter (why have just one)?
