Noles wrote:
Hey Cloudy,
Wish I had checked this forum last week. If I had known you were in my neck of the woods, I would have made it a point to meet up with you. Though it looks like you spent most of your time on the east side of town. You'd have to drive Hollywood Boulevard practically to the Everglades to get to my stomping grounds.
Cloudy wrote:
Best I could tell it's not a team sharing bar, and they play as individuals.
I can't think of a team sharing bar down here. Definitely no Showdown teams.
Damn, I wish we could have hooked up while Helene and I were in your neck of the woods. It may be a long time before we get down there again.
p.s. Driving on I-95 was quite an experience down there. I thought it would have been an Interstate Highway that would allow me to get to my destination quickly and safely. Intstead it was a nightmare, where I had to use every defensive driving trick I knew to keep hundreds of insane drivers from crashing into me, when they wanted to occupy the space that I was driving in. It was almost as bad on the secondary roads. Several times I allowed other drivers to get onto the street instead of blocking them off, as everyone else was doing. The people I let in looked at me as if
I was insane, and I think they wondered what dumb place I learned how to drive.
Yeah, you can find bad drivers everywhere. However, other than south Florida, I have never driven anywhere else, where I encountered a place where pretty much everyone behind the wheel was an insane threat, zigging and zagging from lane to lane, with no regard to other cars on the highway.
p.p.s. Next time I go down to south Florida I don't think I will drive myself. Instead, I will find the taxi driver I rode with in Okinawa, who jumped the curb, and drove down the sidewalk in a shopping district to bypass a traffic jam to drive me around.
(Not a joke. It actually happened. He barely missed shoppers coming out of shops, causing them to drop their shopping bags to jump out of the way, as he sped down the sidewalk.)