Thank God We Don't have Underground Parking!

When I was very young and starting off to write, a male friend said "Say what it IS and not what it is NOT!" So I have tried to stick to that rule of thumb and its remarkably good advice for anyone.

But my last Friday question for now is this:

What makes you happy about NOT having in sl? What "thing" is missing that makes sl so much better by its absence?

For me it's underground parking. I drive down the slope of a hotel and the bar lifts up and boom! its dark, my satellite radio cuts out and I am spending hours descending deeper into the bowels of the earth. There are no parking spaces (it's Friday, after all) and then suddenly! There's one! and it's signed with "For Undersized Vehicle Only". I can't squeeze my SUV in anywhere. Finally, I get one in the darkest corner, like some outpost of progress in the Dark Continent. I am surrounded by smarmy "green" environmentally friendly cars (that remind me of lentil soup and beans in the oven). I love my Jeep. I wont abandon my Jeep. My trek to the 15th floor is a journey Dante would recognize.

Okay, so what don't you miss?

I don't miss real life product placement or broadcasts of the nightly news. Or anything political. Or the smell of cigarette smoke. Or traffic jams. Or any of those women from The View.

I was going to say rush hour traffic. Until I realized that if we actually had traffic problems it might actually make people slow down and give the servers more time to figure out where the heck we are.

I can park my cavalier in many underground garages that SUV's cant go. I always have parking

I'd say Smell is good NOT to have.

Ever ride a public bus?? Getting stuck next to that kid that works in fast food, who smells like grease? Or that "not so clean" guy?? Or the "foreigner" that smells like some kind of spicy food? Oooo! Or the back of a bus where you can enjoy the smell of urine & vomit!!

Gotta post here to get this discussion going.
Truthfully (you are gonna get on my case for this). I have been on a public bus only a handful of times. Twice in London (where I have lived) and twice in Toronto coz it was a tram-thing and I liked the look of it. My Dad took me on teh bus in London when I was little. From then on (and before) it was always taxis. I actually can still remember the ride (well, it wasn't so long ago) and we sat upstairs in the front seat. It was really exciting. Some people do this every day.
The tram was electric and I had my doubts about the whole affair. It looked jury-rigged and in need of more bolts.

I'm just glad we don't have traffic whatsoever at all! God, how I hate people driving 50-60 on an empty straight lane where there's a speed limit of 80! You're allowed 80, then drive 80 ffs. I can live with hanging behind someone driving 80 there, though I'm known to drive a wee bit faster than that myself. But 50-60? What's next? Taking turns in reverse?

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should

Rape, murder, politicians.

wasps, dog poo, dust.

Dust. Wow. That's true. There is no dust in SL. Which explains why Ray never sneezes. Or dusts the furniture.

Believe me, it was.

I don't miss disease, war, poverty, and crime and I stay away from the freaks who feel the need to RP these things.

Self consciousness!

That's honest!!

shaving legs, flipping off light switches, cat boxes and ironing!!!

Ironing work clothes, telephones and during winter... being in the snow and NOT freezing my buns off!

With as much as I have been walking into the ground lately, there might as well be an underground garage.

I personally hate when it's bucketing down rain , I'm doing 70 and some clown behind me is trying to do 80 with this attitude, some of us don't have 20yo vision and nintendo reflexes anymore.

If you want to be there earlier, get your lazy arse out of bed earlier.

If it's safe enough for you to do 80 then it's safe enough for me to do 81 in my 25yo fruit truck, so stop whining about being honked and tailgated, just pull over your blingmobile and let real workers pass ya freakin roadhog!

The need to actually climb all those stairs or step in that smelly elevator, which took too long to get there in the first place, to get to the top of a high building.

AIDS, herpes, Mexican flu . . .

Pep ( . . . and children. )

Ooooo! YES!! Traffic!!!!

Seeing how I spend all day driving around more than I do fixing damn computers.....

Traffic AND road construction!!!

Add to that...... car repairs & maintenance.

Now, we need an opposite thread, of what we do like irl, that's not in SL!

....and not all that soppy stuff about "me RL sig other" gushing ons, it's a given, in most cases!

In RL- I can actually touch/taste/smell the one I'm with.

Pretty much sums it up: touch, taste, smell. 3 Things in RL we will probably never live long enough to see in SL (if ever)!

Okay, knights of the road, don't get your knickers in a twist!

I am also glad we don't have wet lint, self-service gas stations, and "coffee crisp". Also school buses that stop just as you are coming to them, do-nut spare tires, and washrooms in the Far Eat that are holes in the ground with two footprints to squat down on. I particularly dont miss those.

IRL, I enjoy fighting the Horde and going instances. Oh wait...