City Girl at Heart

so i was walking to a friend's office the other day - which involved crossing the street. when i cross a street i don't pay attention to the whole "walk" "don't walk" light - i watch the cars. if there are no cars, i walk, if there are cars i don't. since i obviously don't pay attention to the lights i don't expect cars to either. it's an old habit picked up from being a pedestrian for 5 years on the streets of DC. normally it's not a thing. however, yesterday, after performing the feat of crossing an empty street when the light said "don't walk" i heard a couple behind me commenting that "wow, she must be from around here - we'll follow her" "did you see how she just crossed the street?" i turned around and tried to explain to the couple that's it's just a bad habit and not a big deal - and that no, i wasn't from around here. they smiled and nodded and said, "oh, you're from new york then?"

wow.

you can tell hartford is a car-centric city and not a pedestrian-centric city very easily.

got a thing in the mail wanting me to buy some thing or another - i only mention it because they sent me one of those business reply post cards and wanted me to send it back with my credit card number, expiration date, signature, email, and phone all included - on the back of a postcard. with no envelope. right . . .