Saturday, November 13, 2021
Extreme parking lot traffic, Asheville edition
Bunny heard about The Vintage Market Days in Asheville, so we headed out today. I will say, getting in wasn't an issue—getting out was:
![[a picture of a crowded parking lot] “Is there another way out?” “I don't know, parking lot designers are sadistic bastards.”](/2021/11/13/Traffic.jpg "“Is there another way out?” “I don't know, parking lot designers are sadistic bastards.”")
That isn't a line of parked cars. No, that's a line of cars attempting to leave the parking lot! It took us about twenty minutes to get out, and it only took us that long because we took advantage of a van that took too long deciding where to go and we cut ahead (to be fair, a number of other cars also cut ahead—we weren't the only ones to do this). I attempted to locate another exit, but the cell phone coverage was a bit spotty and I couldn't get a decent satellite picture of the parking lot in Google maps. Sigh.
Notes on an overheard conversation while driving and listening to Christmas carols
“Well that's an oxymoron!”
“What?”
“The lyric: ‘a winter wonderland!’”
“Oh. That's not an oxymoron.”
“Oh really?”
“Yes—you wonder why anyone would live in a winter land.”
