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[pmcd9]

What's wrong with drive up _______?  I think they are awesome.

[Doc]

I have a knee jerk dislike for the idea but maybe that's just because we don't have them here.
It can't just be the way it reduces social interaction because I don't mind internet banking and similar.

[jay-ell]

What's wrong with drive up _______?  I think they are awesome.

Pfft. Any excuse not to leave the car and interact with people serving you like they're not a machine

[pmcd9]

What's wrong with drive up _______?  I think they are awesome.

Pfft. Any excuse not to leave the car and interact with people serving you like they're not a machine

If I could interact with someone that had a real stake in the transaction it might be worth it.

[wombat]

Here's what is hateful about the mentality behind that sort of thing. I am currently in a hotel in the middle of nowhere, basically between two highways, there is no way to get anywhere from here without getting in the car. We only have one car between the two of us so it's impossible for us to do two different things. If he goes out without me, I can't get food, or walk the dogs anywhere except around the parking lot. Why would anyone construct such a nightmare? It's because Americans think that you go EVERYWHERE without getting out of the car.

[littlefallsmets]

Oh man.

Hotels in the middle of nowhere.

High fives!

[jay-ell]

...let my five-year-old talk me in to getting him his first two-wheeled bike in exchange for not screaming throughout his haircut.

Autism is as autism does, but I think I might have gotten played a little bit here. (Not that I'm not secretly thrilled to have an excuse to buy him a bike. "You told him he could have a present after his haircut, honey, and this is what he chose.")

Papa Bear is, of course, pretending to disapprove of the expenditure, but we'll see how fast that dissipates the first time they go for a Papa/Boychild bike ride together.

[Doc]

Hope you don't have to get him one after every haircut, that could add up quickly.

[pmcd9]

Here's what is hateful about the mentality behind that sort of thing. I am currently in a hotel in the middle of nowhere, basically between two highways, there is no way to get anywhere from here without getting in the car. We only have one car between the two of us so it's impossible for us to do two different things. If he goes out without me, I can't get food, or walk the dogs anywhere except around the parking lot. Why would anyone construct such a nightmare? It's because Americans think that you go EVERYWHERE without getting out of the car.

Why would you stay at a hotel situated between two highways if you wanted to walk to your destinations?  I'm sure there was another option for you.

[wombat]

The problem is that I forgot an important principle which is never to let the Tech Staff pick the hotel.

But really - it doesn't make sense to you that walking should always be an option? I don't understand why any building is built in a place where the only choice is to drive. I mean, everyone has feet, they never run out of gas or break down - it is the default method of locomotion. Why would you not want that as at least one of your choices in all cases?

[Choop]

omba, with that kind of attitude, you do not belong in flyover country. plan and simple.

[wombat]

But I am in Massachusetts!

[Doc]

...bake instead of study.
And then study.

[KeithHernandez]

Wait, so in Australia, yer summer break would be in like December right?  What excuse do they use to divide the semesters?  Easter?

That Kinks song about sunny christmas day is stuck in my head at least once a month.

[Doc]

Yeah, mid semester break around easter in the first half of the year, and around august in second, for no particular reason.

Christmas is typically one of the hottest days of the year, it gets stinking some years.