Thursday, June 17, 2010

Map



In line at the Safeway nearest my house, they have only one map for sale: Bellevue, Redmond & Kirkland. It's the heart of darkness over there for us city folks - might as well be colonial west Africa. Other accoutrements of a trip to the Eastside include a pith helmet, anti-anxiety medication, mall-hiking boots, an Ed Hardy field guide, and a two-week supply of irony.

I hear some urbanites even hire guides; after all, it is one thing to deal with the bridge-and-tunnel crowd on our own turf, but if you are going to encounter them in their natural habitat, you want to be sure you have someone along who knows how to tranq them with chain-restaurant food and chase them back into their Range Rovers. It's only prudent.

4 comments:

Unknown said...

where your at, is where you sit

Dad

AT said...
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AT said...

Is that beef jerky above the maps? mmmm...

Bob/Linda/Stokes said...

I had an uncle who investigated the history of Ducharme.....You might look into it. "of the charming" French origins.....