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Boston and New Orleans are two very different cities. I am reminded of that on a daily basis. They also have more similarities than it might look like at first glance, most of them centering around the fact that they're kind of hodge-podge cities that grew up all higgledy-piggledy, so the streets don't quite make sense, which is honestly something I prefer in a city. (For my original trilogy, there was a joke that I never have worked in, and I'll have to see if I can get it in there somewhere, but the hero of the trilogy is a "traveler," meaning that he is especially good at moving between worlds and realms and always knowing where he is and where he's going and how to locate people and places. The trilogy is set in Boston, and the joke was going to be that the way to flummox the hero was to drop him in New York City, with its sense-making grids and numbered and lettered streets. I could just envision the hero shuddering with horror. "How do you ever FIND anything here?" The idea still cracks me up, I *have* to work it in at some point.)
ANYWAY, moving on from that, the point of this post was to remark on one of the differences that I have found recently that never really occurred to me before, and that is the number of times people here tell me, "You'll get used to it." They always say this in regard to something that I, frankly, find completely unacceptable to my vision of civilization. For instance, it was said to me with regard to my continually ridiculous parking space that it STILL takes me multiple tries to get in and out of.
Me: I...don't understand this space. The car doesn't really fit, and I can't really get out of it without almost hitting that fence over here...
Woman I Was Talking To Who Is Also A Neighbor (shrugging; breezily): Oh, you'll get used to it!
And that was only the first time I was told this. Strange rattling noise in the air conditioner at work that NEVER STOPS and happens right over my head? I'll get used to it! Leaky window? I'll get used to it! The daily adventurous possibility of cockroaches? I'll get used to it! The stagnant pool water that grosses me out? I'll get used to it! Carrying an umbrella in a thunderstorm? I'll get used to it!
( The Rest of My Musings )
ANYWAY, moving on from that, the point of this post was to remark on one of the differences that I have found recently that never really occurred to me before, and that is the number of times people here tell me, "You'll get used to it." They always say this in regard to something that I, frankly, find completely unacceptable to my vision of civilization. For instance, it was said to me with regard to my continually ridiculous parking space that it STILL takes me multiple tries to get in and out of.
Me: I...don't understand this space. The car doesn't really fit, and I can't really get out of it without almost hitting that fence over here...
Woman I Was Talking To Who Is Also A Neighbor (shrugging; breezily): Oh, you'll get used to it!
And that was only the first time I was told this. Strange rattling noise in the air conditioner at work that NEVER STOPS and happens right over my head? I'll get used to it! Leaky window? I'll get used to it! The daily adventurous possibility of cockroaches? I'll get used to it! The stagnant pool water that grosses me out? I'll get used to it! Carrying an umbrella in a thunderstorm? I'll get used to it!
( The Rest of My Musings )
