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indis_earfalas
2010-03-30 11:12 pm UTC (link)

Dissent! I was with the "god, snobs much" idea, until this:

Actually no, I was being honest. I sincerely wish we had all of the above, and if some people would choose not to eat there, it would be their prerogative, but would at least give the rest of us a chance to do so if we so wished, without having to drive 15 minutes to Lynnwood, or 40 minuts south to Tacoma.

That's just fucking LAZY. That and the whole "omg, why must it be so GREEN here complaint" on the personal blog. Yeah.

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	tez 2010-03-30 11:48 pm UTC (link)
	...whoa, I missed that. Complaining about fifteen minutes? It takes me fifteen minutes to get to the damn Outback and it's in the same city I am! Jesus. The green thing bugged me too. Lookit me, I'm totes edgy because I'm bitching about Seattle being so GREEN. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	yoritomo_reiko 2010-03-31 12:10 am UTC (link)
	I've been known to jokingly bitch about it being so green here in Wales. But that's because I grew up in Las Vegas. Where it's brown and dry. And Wales is green and very, very wet, most of the time. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	riah_chan 2010-03-31 12:20 am UTC (link)
	Also grew up in Las Vegas... green places are _weird_! It's odd to have all of that wetness and plant-life in one place! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	tez 2010-03-31 02:49 am UTC (link)
	snicker Yes, Vegas is highly brown and dry. Got relatives down there. The bitching is about Seattle being 'green' in the environmental context though. ZOMG lookit me I don't ride a bike or RECYCLE like you freakazoids. Yep. Totes edgy. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	sorchar 2010-03-31 03:24 am UTC (link)
	Mm, green and wet, my favorite kind of climate. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	frequentmouse 2010-04-01 04:41 pm UTC (link)
	This is because there's no way to get to the Outback without driving on either Black Lake or Cooper Point, laden as they are with Capital High School students eager to spend their allowances. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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jupiterpluvius
2010-03-31 12:14 am UTC (link)

Yes, this.

Astonishingly (and by "astonishingly" here I mean "not astonishingly at all") it's easier to find chain restaurants in suburbs than in city centers, because chain restaurant management likes opening them in big-box malls and places with large parking lots.

Someone too lazy to figure that out and go the 15-20 minutes out of their way to the Olive Garden of their dreams is just being an ass.

As for bemoaning that they can't get Domino's delivered, I don't even.

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amadi
2010-03-31 12:30 am UTC (link)

I have to drive 15 minutes (on a good, low-traffic day) to get to a decent (i.e. clean, decent selection) supermarket. If 15 minutes is such a hardship to get some overpriced frozen-and-microwaved prepackaged sodium-and-fat bomb chain Italian food, then she needs, desperately, to get some perspective. I'm pretty sure that there are people making that trip to and from Lynnwood every single day for work, and she's whining about doing it what, once a month, for some freaking Olive Garden crap?

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	brennalarose 2010-03-31 02:59 am UTC (link)
	This+another 15 minutes, to nearest Wal-Mart, unless we need a real grocery store, in which case, that's another 30 minutes. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	dragonfangirl 2010-03-31 11:50 pm UTC (link)
	Hell, I live in Lynnwood and work in Bellevue, because the rent is way too high in Bellevue to live there. 15 minutes ain't nothing but a thing when you commute 45 mins each way. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	aycelcus 2010-04-21 06:39 pm UTC (link)
	My parents live in this teeny tiny town in North Carolina, and my mom will drive 45 minutes to Wilmington to go to the Harris Teeter there. She will also drive the hour and a half to Raleigh to go to Olive Garden with me (she LOOOOVVVES her some Olive Garden. I prefer the nearby Sweet Tomatoes, which we eat at almost as often.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kitt_in_socks 2010-03-31 01:05 am UTC (link)
	His "I don't want to try new pizza places" thing kind of bugged me, too. 15 minutes. That's like trying to go anywhere in my hometown. Whatever shall we do. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	keri 2010-03-31 01:59 am UTC (link)
	Seriously. It takes me half an hour on a no-traffic day to get to my parents' house in the same town (which is five minutes from where I used to work, luckily my new job is only 20 minutes away). Ditto to get to my mom's office - in the opposite direction. That means to get from mom's work to the house? an hour-long drive without leaving town. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	hyaenid 2010-03-31 02:16 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, that's what got me. There are a ton of pizza delivery places in the U District. Pagliacci's is even a chain! (okay, so it's a local chain, but still.) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

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	panthea 2010-03-31 09:44 pm UTC (link)
	Seriously, in Boston, it takes me about fifteen minutes to get somewhere two miles away. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mochibuni 2010-03-31 05:46 am UTC (link)
	Or they could drive ten minutes to South Center or ten minutes to Bellevue (dependent on traffic, of course). Plus Seattle has several chain restaurants similar or identical to the ones they want...but I suppose it's obvious that it's too much to expect them to figure that out. :\ (Reply to this)(Parent)

	Deleted and reposted because I submitted too soon. librarianmouse 2010-03-31 05:55 am UTC (link)
	I boggled at that one. 15 minutes? It takes me an hour to get to work without traffic. (Why, oh WHY must you be so spread out, Phoenix?!) A 15 minute drive to have an enjoyable dining experience with food you like is totally worth it, as far as I'm concerned. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	Re: Deleted and reposted because I submitted too soon. wtf 2010-03-31 04:13 pm UTC (link)
	I'd like to take this moment to mention that there are three Red Robin locations precisely fifteen minutes from me (in different directions, natch.) I still had an hour-plus commute when I was working, but damn if there wasn't a handy burger joint at any given point on my route. XD (Reply to this)(Parent)

	coffeebun 2010-03-31 06:53 am UTC (link)
	LOL FIFTEEN MINUTES IS SUCH A LONG, LONG TIME. Suddenly grateful that my relatives are the kind of people who'd willingly drive an hour and a half to AND back for good food. >_>;;;; (Reply to this)(Parent)

	usagivindaloo 2010-03-31 07:20 am UTC (link)
	Did she mention whether she drove or took the bus though? I know that for myself, going out to the suburbs of Vancouver would be a PITA even if it's technically "close." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	jyuu 2010-04-01 06:53 am UTC (link)
	That was my thought; when I lived in Seattle what took about 20 minutes by car (Tukwila, say) would be over an hour's bus ride, which is too long for a dinner trip for me. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	felinephoenix 2010-04-03 03:48 pm UTC (link)
	I was wondering about that, too. (Reply to this)(Parent)

dragonfangirl
2010-04-04 06:38 pm UTC (link)

She didn't say, but the fact that she phrased it "fifteen minutes drive" rather than a general "fifteen minutes away" or a more specific "fifteen minutes by bus/on foot" implies to me that her default mode of transportation is car. And given the cross she's trying to climb on, I have trouble imagining that she wouldn't go out of her way to mention how much trouble she has to take to go anywhere.

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lyssa
2010-04-01 06:25 pm UTC (link)

Eh, a fifteen minute drive isn't always equal to be fair. When I lived in Virginia, a 15, 20, even 30 minute drive out to a restaurant was no big deal. After I moved to the Bay Area, driving feels like an ordeal with the randomly worse traffic, bad parking situation, etc. I can't explain it, but a 15 minute drive out here is just crappier and going out 20 minutes for a restaurant feels like more of a big deal than it used to.

Now, from what else I've read of the OP they sound like a brat that feels too good for Lynnwood or something like that, so they can pike it, but I can sympathize with feeling like even a short distance can feel too long.

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