Got back and am still not fed up. Well, not VERY fed up. But tonight York had a good go at making me fed up. My alarm clock broke on the way back from merkaland so I thought I’d pop into town on the way home and pick one up. Now had I tried this in santa barbara, it would have been a case of go home, eat, watch TV, drive to circuit city, browse, prod them all and choose one, and buy it before 9pm.
Here, it was a case of fight the traffic to a parking spot near Argos, walk through the cold rain to the front of the shop, and find I’m 10 minutes late to buy anything. I’m on a 10 minute waiting (free parking is generally 25-75 minutes in SB) so I can’t then wander into town to look for other places that may be open.
I believe York is worse than many places from the point of view of traffic and the brain-dead layout of the town, but unless you have a ‘home-maker’ in the family, the available time for getting things like this done is painfully slow. We need to sort this out.