lol, accurate. i have an aunt like this. if a place has mini golf, go karts, and an Applebee’s, it has everything.
and all these things are within 45 minutes of her house, but some of us, being uncultured, fail to grasp the subtle differences between Applebee’s locations even after they are explained.
I understand the midwestern cultural isolationism. Everything is so spread out that if you aren’t in The Big City you’re in a town where time stopped in the 1950s. If you aren’t even in the 1950s town, you’re on an island with 20-100km+ of exclusive car travel between you and basic services. When I did tech support for an ISP-of-last-resort for these customers, the broadband gap alone was existential horror. Their monthly data consumption matched my daily at 3x the price, limited to an unreliable 300kb/s at best. A town with an Applebees and a go kart track is a desert oasis when your town only has a gas station/bar/triple church combo. That’s somethin’ to do outside of shooting things that might explode in your trash fire.
lol, accurate. i have an aunt like this. if a place has mini golf, go karts, and an Applebee’s, it has everything.
and all these things are within 45 minutes of her house, but some of us, being uncultured, fail to grasp the subtle differences between Applebee’s locations even after they are explained.
I understand the midwestern cultural isolationism. Everything is so spread out that if you aren’t in The Big City you’re in a town where time stopped in the 1950s. If you aren’t even in the 1950s town, you’re on an island with 20-100km+ of exclusive car travel between you and basic services. When I did tech support for an ISP-of-last-resort for these customers, the broadband gap alone was existential horror. Their monthly data consumption matched my daily at 3x the price, limited to an unreliable 300kb/s at best. A town with an Applebees and a go kart track is a desert oasis when your town only has a gas station/bar/triple church combo. That’s somethin’ to do outside of shooting things that might explode in your trash fire.