POST FOUR
(If E reads this: E - this is NOT criticism or frustration or poking fun at your expense. It's just me relating the story. Please, don't hurt me! Pleeeeeeeeze...?)
So we hit the road. E finds a short cut, which by all logic should have been a short cut -- from Cleveland to Athens via Marietta rather than Columbus. The problem was not E's map reading skills. It wasn't even her unclear map. It was our foolishness about not consulting the Oracle of Mapquest at all during our trip.
The timing didn't make sense, either. We left Erie, PA around 8 pm. That should've put us in Cleveland around 9:30 pm, which it did. Going through Columbus takes about 2 and a half hours (midnight), and Athens is 1.5 hours from there (1:30 am). Now, you would think going down the southeastern border of the state would be quicker than going through the center of it, right?
Wrong. Of course, (a) getting jammed by construction and rain going to Marietta, (b) getting lost, unable to find the route we were looking for, and (d) pulling over only to find from a trucker that the route we wanted would've been the suckiest route to take didn't help.
And, the funny part was that even taking all of that into account, the math still didn't seem to work out right for our shortcut taking less time, at least in my mind.
(If E reads this: E - this is NOT criticism or frustration or poking fun at your expense. It's just me relating the story. Please, don't hurt me! Pleeeeeeeeze...?)
So we hit the road. E finds a short cut, which by all logic should have been a short cut -- from Cleveland to Athens via Marietta rather than Columbus. The problem was not E's map reading skills. It wasn't even her unclear map. It was our foolishness about not consulting the Oracle of Mapquest at all during our trip.
The timing didn't make sense, either. We left Erie, PA around 8 pm. That should've put us in Cleveland around 9:30 pm, which it did. Going through Columbus takes about 2 and a half hours (midnight), and Athens is 1.5 hours from there (1:30 am). Now, you would think going down the southeastern border of the state would be quicker than going through the center of it, right?
Wrong. Of course, (a) getting jammed by construction and rain going to Marietta, (b) getting lost, unable to find the route we were looking for, and (d) pulling over only to find from a trucker that the route we wanted would've been the suckiest route to take didn't help.
And, the funny part was that even taking all of that into account, the math still didn't seem to work out right for our shortcut taking less time, at least in my mind.
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