Morning Metro: It’s HOT!, Kessler Reviews Colbeh, and Things People Say When…
Decatur Metro | July 2, 2012 | 10:02 am- Temperature off the charts at Glenlake tennis courts on Sunday [Be Active Decatur]
- John Kessler’s review of Colbeh Persian Kitchen [AJC]
- Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey to write memior [NYT]
- T-SPLOST a “hard sell” in S. DeKalb without rail [Crossroads]
- GA Tech prof creates a “businesses near MARTA” page using Yelp [ItsNearMARTA]
- “Things people say if you mention walking home from work” [Oppidan Omnibus]
Digging the “ItsNearMarta” page. For some time I’ve considered creating such a page myself, but my idea was to actually visit each station and walk a quarter mile radius and include everything I spotted. So far, laziness has had the upper hand over ambition, but I may yet try it.
If this list were a contest, Decatur station wins by a mile, even though some places are missing (Mac McGees, for one; Square Pub, one of my faves, just misses the 4-star requirement).
Love the “things people say” list. People act like I am OCD because I get up at 5am to ride to work.
This guy I used to see in the mornings, as I locked up my bike, asked me why I couldn’t afford a car. He shook his head when I told him I loved riding in the morning. He was always having a smoke at 6AM.
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I imagine some people assume my wife and I can’t afford a second car when we tell them we share one (though no one has dared asked), and I suspect that they are the same people who always want to meet us at the cheapest restaurants instead of the places we suggest.
I enjoyed that list as well. People always assume I can’t afford a car because I walk everywhere. When I tell them the car is safely locked in my garage they just give me these looks, like it’s unimaginable that I would walk somewhere when I have a perfectly good car.
Colbeh review is very much in line with my take onthe place after one visit. I’m looking forward to many more.
“This guy I used to see in the mornings, as I locked up my bike, asked me why I couldn’t afford a car. He shook his head when I told him I loved riding in the morning. He was always having a smoke at 6AM.”
Think my response might have been “how can you afford to smoke?”
I said I walk home. Of course at night and by myself and I’m not scared a bit no matter how hot or cold. No, I’m not kidding and certainly I walk all the way home…half way wouldn’t make much sense now would it? It’s only a few miles and thirty five minutes isn’t really that long. Sure I carry a gun…I walk, I ride, I shoot…I do it all.