Ref:
I’ve now lived in Seattle for one year, so I thought I’d write up a little list of things I have learned about Seattle in my short time here.
Things people in Seattle apparently like:
- Knee-high boots
- Roundabouts
- Not knowing how to properly use roundabouts
- Subarus
- Outdoor activities (camping, hiking, climbing, kayaking)
- Nice sunglasses (which seems odd, given the weather)
- Complaining about their not-that-terrible weather
- Not carrying umbrellas
- Making it known to you that they don’t carry umbrellas
- Galoshes (which seems contradictory, given the umbrella thing)
- Fighting gentrification that has already happened
- Having a selection of 23 craft beers, even though they’re all the same variety
- Using turn lanes to merge into traffic
- Condos!
- Mediocre coffee
Feel free to add more in the comments!
De-classified comments
Being passive aggressive
Lacking a sense of fashion (”you mean I can’t wear this REI fleece to the opera?”)
Adamantly refusing sensible public transportation
Subversively marketed but mediocre cupcakes
Ben: There are heaps of roundabouts near my work, and I cringe every day I drive through them, as invariably there’s always someone taking a left by turning in front of the rotary-bit, or people treating it like a four-way stop and glaring at me for just blowing right through when I have right of way. You’d think they think it’s a regular intersection that has a strange flowerpot in the middle.
I will say that Seattle’s drivers simply destroy the insipid jackasses I had to deal with every day in Utah, though. They’re just a bit slow on the draw and timid.
Jim Ray: so you’re saying you don’t like cupcake royale… ;) Frankly, I’m not that impressed either, and the tea I got there was terrible.
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