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May 15, 2007

On A Fun Game

There's an on-going game in the Susanville/South Lassen County area that I like to call "Lanes are for Wimps". Here's how the game works. As people move their vehicles from one place or another they see how lanes they can use up at once. This extends to parking lots, only the rules change slightly to see how many parking spaces can be filled by the smallest of vehicles. The winner will be declared when a motorist is drug from his vehicle and beat about the head and neck by another motorist or pedestrian who doesn't feel like playing that day. Once the winner is declared the game starts again immediately without any lapse in play.

Main Street, Susanville is two lanes in either direction all the way through town. They're narrow lanes, and really poor quality streets, so I can understand touching the line now and again, but what I describe here is a literal strattling of the center line. I can excuse the huge trucks and things doing that, there's really not enough room for them in one lane, and when you're hauling an Abrahms tank through town out to Sierra Army Depot you can pretty much do whatever you want, but is there any reason why a Miata needs two lanes to cross town? I think they like the beatings!

The parking is what's really amusing. People just scoot into the parking lot and stop their car. Maybe they're in one space, maybe they're in six....maybe they're still in the thoroughfare, it doesn't really matter. When the voices say "it's time to turn off the car" they turn the key and get out. Sometimes they even put the car in Park and set the brake, sometimes Neutral is good enough. That really adds to the excitement, considering there's not one inch of flat ground in all of Lassen County.

The key to parking around here is to park AWAY from everyone else and walk to where you're going. You'll know where to go when you get into the parking lot. Off in the distance, in the farthest, most obscure section of the lot is a group of cars and trucks parked normally, usually accompanied by a few nervous looking drivers looking back at their cars like it's the last time they'll see it in that condition ever again.

Posted by at May 15, 2007 07:53 AM

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