Can’t Get There from Here
Today, I went up to Westfield to have lunch with some friends from Minnesota who are in town visiting family. The directions were fairly straightforward. I had plenty of time and plenty of gas. I had no trouble at all following the directions.
Until I ran into the parade.
Westfield’s “Shamrock Festival” is this weekend, the highlight of which is apparently a parade, complete with the high school softball team, kids from the local karate school, and soccer moms on yard tractors. The parade route was such that people who lived in the particular subdivision I was headed for could not get out (or in my case, in) because the entire road was blocked. I was less than six blocks from my destination at that point, so I parked illegally (there was nowhere to park legally, and the police officer assured me that it was OK so long as I came back for my car after the parade) and hoofed it to the house.
The walking itself was not so bad, although I would’ve worn different shoes. The problem was that I was walking beside the parade. Specifically, I was walking near the high school softball team…whose members were riding in the back of a pickup truck and throwing candy. The girls were throwing small pieces of candy to people ten feet away with approximately the same force that they would use to throw a softball from the outfield to a base. And while their aim was good enough that they didn’t hit anyone (at least, I didn’t see anyone get hit) it was a lot of ducking and weaving–both the sugary little missiles and the moppets swarming up to claim the treats.
The entire time, I was thinking to myself that I have been so focused on the hassle created by the Hyperfix that the current navigational difficulty would never even have crossed my mind.
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