It's cruel to mock the stupid
Feb. 19th, 2008 10:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pecuniumWhich 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.
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.
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Date: 2008-02-21 06:15 pm (UTC)Having spent a lot of time in, physically, large cities, the idea that one can walk across a city, twice, in one day (which I did in Boston) is also strange.
When one adds the impression given by many New Yorkers that anything outside Manhattan is provincial, and that stuff outside The City, is completely uncivilised, and it's less hard to understand why some people come to the idea that NYC = New York State.
Then again, I had an ex-girlfriend's sister ask if Tahoe was one of the Great Lakes.
TK