2026 Holiday Card Exchange 💌📬

[Ironclad Alibi]

I am in there
Apparently on some smaller Caribbean islands that's how you get directions... 'Take the second turn after the sign to Rodney's christening party and it's past the field where Bert and Harriet had their wedding(even though Rodney is now long grown up and has left the island and Bert and Harriet haven't spoken to each other since the 'incident' 30 years ago'

That's right up there with "turn left at the corner where the green house used to be."

[BookstoreEscapee]

That's right up there with "turn left at the corner where the green house used to be."

There's a guy on facebook who does videos about how he moved to New Jersey (he's from New York and now lives about 20 minutes from me) and how it's a whole different world here. He just did one about how we give directions.

"Why do New Jersey drivers give directions using stores that closed years ago? Because in New Jersey, directions run on memory, not maps. Ask a Jersey driver how to get somewhere and you’ll hear “turn where the Blockbuster used to be” or “go past the old Pathmark” or “it’s by the urgent care that turned into a ShopRite” — places that haven’t existed in a decade. New Jersey directions, explained: locals navigate by dead landmarks because everyone here has driven the same roads for so long that the old store names stuck."

(Funny thing, and I don't know if this is why he used that, but there was a ShopRite in that town that was turned into a medical office. Not sure if it's an urgent care or just a regular branch of that health system's practice.)

[BookstoreEscapee]

We have, in alphabetical order:

1. Android Kaeli
2. BookstoreEscapee
3. csquared
4. EricKei
5. Ironclad Alibi
6. Irving Patrick Freleigh
7. Kit-Ginevra
8. Pixilated
9. taxguykarl

That's everyone from last year. And no one's moved!

[dalesys]

..."Why do New Jersey drivers give directions using stores that closed years ago?...

There's an old story about a clear-cut forest and a woodpecker frantically flying about, crashing into the trees that aren't there...

[Android Kaeli]

That's right up there with "turn left at the corner where the green house used to be."

For me where I live its "turn left where the old oak tree was, go past the first Dollar General you see, turn right at the second Hardee's, and if you find yourself going past the third Dollar Tree then you've gone too far".