i wanna get off!!!!!
This damn place — lovely uptown Phoenix — gets crazier and crazier with each passing day. Accumulated passing days have given us insane cross-streets and neighborhood roads: lunatic drivers, roads that go nowhere, a construction zone at every turn…what a horrible place!
Wait, wait… Whew! A miracle just happened: WordPress let me in to Funny about Money, a maneuver it’s been rejecting all morning.
I could not remember the secret codes…or much of anything else. Apparently the computer’s memory has not yet been consumed by senility: at length, it remembered SOMETHING and let me into FaM’s site.
So this morning I determined to buy a silly dood-dad that I’ve been coveting for some time. So it was off to the gigantic {supermarket} up on Dunlap Road.
They didn’t have it.
Ohhhkayyyyy….
Around the corner to the hardware store:
Noooo…not a chance in Hell.,
Ohhhhhkayyyyy,,,,
Across Main Drag Central, over to the westside shopping area, into another hardware store.
Nope.,
Into another supermarket.
Har har hardy-har har!
Over to the Safeway.
Not a chance in Hell.
Up to the Albertson’s. It may not be Hell, but it doesn’t have a chance of carrying the doo-dad, either.
Driving around & around. Ugh!
Truth to tell, I love to drive. But I am SO-O-O-O SICK of driving in L.A. East!!!!! Gawdlmighty, I hate the homicidal streets of Phoenix. Just a nasty, frustrating, crazy-making place to drive a car.
Driving around gets crazier with each day. People behave like they’re high on meth, wherever they go. Who knows? Maybe in my senilitude, I do the same thing. All I know is…GET OUTTA MY WAY, YA CRAZY FOOLS!
Seriously: that’s how it feels to drive here.
The more Phoenix resembles the L.A. area, the more I hate it.
Seriously: if my son didn’t live here, I would be sooooooooo long gone!
Where would I go?
Hm….
Here in Arizona?
* Sedona
* the Oro Valley area outside of Tucson
* Fountain Hills, an overpriced suburb of Scottsdale
* Prescott (probably not: too cold in the winter)
Uhmmmm…that’s about it.
In California:
* San Francisco
* Certain parts of San Diego
* Carmel/Monterey, if I had all the money in the world
In Nevada?
*Phbbhphttt!
In New Mexico?
* Santa Fe: again, if I had all the money in the world
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Welp! Since “All the money in the world” doesn’t apply here. it looks like I’m stuck. And the more I live in Central Arizona, the less I like it.
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Advice to the unwary: think one helluva lot more carefully than I did about where you’d like to spend your dotage!