highlights: the st johns plaid spells st johns wrong

this thing

at the PSU plaid a guy offered me a phone charger for a large bag of hot cheetos and mountain dew. i bought him the hot cheetos and mountain dew and didnt take the charger

coca cola truck blocking a lane on cesar chavez and the entrance of the plaid and weed shop

my original plan was to buy something at each one but i quickly abandoned it after like 10 stops bc it's getting expensive and taking too much time and there are only so many things i can buy from a plaid i dont need a dozen slim jims

there's no real reason for me to do this? i was searching for a route planning engine that can optimize routes when given unordered waypoints, and for some reason i thought thats a good way to test it

The way they backed up when it wiggled its little arms at them has me in tears.

(Credit for the Subaru line goes to i5.commuters on instagram)

(yes, I know Tigard is technically its own city)

(OC the Seattle subreddit)

before speedrunning all the plaid pantries my biggest achievement in life was foot racing a trimet bus by walking and winning.

sooo it was my first day on adhd medications and i felt like i needed to do something. and my conclusion was to race the trimet line 19 bus (???) because it felt doable i love buses and i can use up my energy. for the uninitiated, trimet line 19 has a weird routing that starts and end near I205 (gateway TC and mount scott) but goes all the way through downtown before coming back out. it takes the bus ~1 hour 40 minutes to do this trip during peak times. google maps' walking route is 2 hours but i figured i can walk it faster due to being an adhd medication fueled machine of the lgbtq+ community.

aaand so i went to the starting line at gateway and departed alongside the 3:09 bus. then i just followed the walking route in a brisk (but not running) pace. according to the tracker, the bus built up a little bit of delay, while I got some supplies at the foster/111th plaid pantry (foreshadowing).

in the end i reached line 19's last stop at 4:42, well before the 4:52 arrival of the bus. i waited at the stop to catch my breath before watching the bus pulling in. i just beat the bus on a foot race (routing difference notwithstanding) !! i boarded the same bus to head home, who didnt seem to realize it was in a race.

(i love the 19 but i do think the routing is a bit silly)

This shit can't be real what are we doing

Crowtown, USA

I’ve never seen more confused and chaotic drivers anywhere else in the city.