I am Having an Angry Day

[the_wanlorn]

 
Hey, you guys? Know what really gets my goat? When people fucking bitch about half hour drives.

You fucking cocksuckers. You fucking suburbanite motherfuckers.

I come from the country. We look fairly civilized, but the nearest honest-to-gods grocery store is around 15, 20 minutes away. Up until a year or so ago, the nearest movie theater was 35 minutes, if there wasn't any traffic.

I don't care why you think half an hour is too far to drive. I don't care if it's because you've never had to leave a 10 minute radius around your house. What you are saying is that I am not important enough to you to drive a piddling distance.

You are lucky. You are spoiled. You're the fat noble who sits in his lounge chair all day, watching others do the work that keeps you happy.

In Cowtown, my closest friend was 20 minutes away. Do you hear that? Twenty minutes. And know what? We saw each other at elast once a week. Ofttimes she'd come home frmo school with me on a Friday and get picked up that night. Then I'd go over on Saturday or SUnday to fuck about for a while.

Then I had the audacity to change schools, to change to one half an hour away in a small city. And suddenly, half an hour was too far to drive. How many times have you been to my house? How many times have I been the one to go there?

Yeah.

When I got sick of it, when I stopped ebing the one to get up off my ass and go for a little ride, guess how often I saw anyone.

if (guess > 0)
  return "You fail.";
else
  return "Pathetic, huh?";

I can not being to stress how fuckign angry this makes me. If I start to total shit, and the scales are nowhere near balanced, then you are clearly not my friend.

Half hour to get to school. Almost a half hour to get to the grocery store. And yet you can't be arsed to come visit me? Lovely.

I don't feel like I'm making myself clear. It is unfortunate. Please, give me your thoughts.
 

Comments

[katiefoolery.livejournal.com]

Oh, I hear you. Half an hour is nothing. It sounds like I grew up in a similar sort of area to the one you describe and it never fails to amaze me the way city and suburban people view distances differently. When I was studying for my library degree, I had a mixed group of friends: some were very suburban and some were from the country. One day, we happened to be somewhere from where you could clearly see the city and the country-raised ones commented on how close it was. At which point, the suburbanites looked at us as though we were deranged and said: "But it's almost half an hour away from here".

That is close where I come from.

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

Exactly! I was stunned the first time someone said "Dude, you live far away." because a half hour is nothing to me. But, when you live where everything is within walking distance...

[caecilia.livejournal.com]

I drove like 40 minutes to and from mass academy AND the place I worked this summer. I'm applying for this job, too, that I wanted because it's "really close to Princeton" (i.e. an hour and 45 minutes away). Anything under 2 hours I consider "close by". That's pretty lame.

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

Lame, but so do I. I mean, to me, going up to Concord, NH to visit a friend is a day trip.

I guess it really warps our perception of distance when we live out in the middle of nowhere.

[gaslightgallows]

Well, I unfortunately have to admit that I am a suburban and have been all my life (though not by choice). However... still totally acclimatized to the idea of driving half-an-hour to work, school, friends, family, the dentist... All my college friends now live and hour and a half away and I go to see them frequently. My grandmother lives three hours away and my boyfriend's family lives six hours away. I call those "weekend trips."

Sounds like someone just doesn't want to get off their fat duff and make the effort.

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

Shhhhh, if it's just because they don't what to get off their arses, then that's even MORE reason to be mad at them. At least now in my mind they have the excuse of being suburbanite motherfuckers, instead of lol fatty motherfuckers! =P

[chaosvizier.livejournal.com]

Dear the_wanlorn,

The only reason I don't visit you more is because you're a five hour drive away. Sorry; my bad.

chaosvizier

;-)

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

ZOMG U H0R!! 5 HOURS IS LIKE NIPPING ACROSS THE STREET FOR A GALLON OF MILK!!

=P

[froda-baggins.livejournal.com]

LOL I'm a suburbanite motherfucker but we live in a largely rural state so yeah... my grandparents live about two hours away. We go there for day trips relatively frequently.

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

Suburbanite motherfucker is my new favorite phrase. Say it out loud! It's ridiculously fun!

[princessdot.livejournal.com]

HAHA, you know how I leave myself an hour to get to anything? yea. And then there was that term in uni when I actually commuted. Two hours. Each way. It's crazy and the only thing I wish is there were actually public transit so I could get something else done instead of just driving. My recurring nightmare in high school? missing the bus. Cuz there was NO way I could then get to school.

tealdeeringly way to agree with ya.

[jamimegan.livejournal.com]

I've lived ten minutes away from downtown Seattle my entire life and I second that a half hour is not too much to drive. It's not. At all. I used to sit in traffic much longer than that on my way home from college every day. It's nothing. Turn on some music and sing like an idiot the whole way--that always passes the time for me.

In other words, it's lame that someone would say that to you. Very lame.

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

D: You guys are making me so sad, because every single one of my friends has been all "Dude, half an hour is way too far, you come to me!"

They weren't really my friends, were they?!

[jamimegan.livejournal.com]

Well, it's possible they're just really, really lazy. Or scared of leaving their personal bubble. My grandma's like that. She's not going to get the light fixture she wants for her house because she'd have to drive to the next town to get it. The next town being a small city that's smushed up against us and less than twenty minutes away. People are weird.

Saying "half an hour is way too far" followed by "you come to me" is pretty lame, though--so it's not too far for you, just them?

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

I do live in the middle of nowhere, so it does make sense that they'd be kind of wary coming out here.

And psh, everyone knows that if you're used to it, it means you're the one who always has to do it!!

[crazyasitsounds.livejournal.com]

Heh, I live in Worcester & all my friends are twenty minutes away. The ones who live in Worcester. & I feel that this is the proper time to mention that I don't have a car & I can't go anywhere. You know, in the spirit of complaining.

[the-wanlorn.livejournal.com]

Trufax lack of car >>>> lazy friends on the scale of things to complain about! I love my car to pieces and am so glad I have it.