It's cruel to mock the stupid

[pecunium]

Which is why I am not linking to this, but it's an amazing moment of WTF!?!, and I can't keep it to myself (I'm not always the nicest of people).

Today I’m on a flight to San Jose, CA. Well, two flights. Couldn’t find a direct flight.

It was yesterday that I discovered LA and SF were not in the same location… See, I don’t know CA very well and I’m actually headed to Palo Alto. So I mistakenly assumed that LA was pretty much right there, too.

I think the confusion came from last time I was in CA, I flew into SF and out of Oakland, so I had this impression of all the cities being close to each other.

I'm croggled. Not so much that a grown man, and an american citizen, might not know LA and SF are 400 miles apart from each other, but that he would look at a state the size of California, and assume all the metropli are adjacent because two of them were so colocated the last time he was here.

That's the first bit.

The second is that he admits it, with a sense of blasé delivery which implies he thinks this a reasonable mistake to make.

Comments

[urox.livejournal.com]

As a non-native of California, I have to admit that before planning on moving here, I had no idea of the relative distances of SF, LA, Santa Teresa, and San Jose were, much less any other San city. I kept checking and double checking for months (not every day, mind you, but at least once a month) where the cities were and which ones I want to go to to make sure I wasn't making a mistake because I was having difficulty keeping them straight in my head. So I can understand someone else making a similar mistake.

Google has definitely made people more aware of distances and locations of places.