I know it's coming when I notice people lounging in portable chairs on street corners, when the roar of engines at stoplights through downtown Pontiac is deafening, when more than 60% of people are driving 20 miles below the speed limit with their arms slung carelessly out the windows or over the edge of their meticulously restored convertibles, and when traffic, no matter where you intend to go, is intensely bottlenecked at all hours of the day and night.
It is the Woodward Dream Cruise, and it has no mercy.
It's not all that bad if you have no place to go and nothing to do during the weekend that it's held. One can walk to the end of our block and watch amazingly gorgeous old cars roar by. On the other hand, if we wish to go anywhere---anywhere at all, we have to wade through cruisers like a salmon trying to up-stream Niagara Falls.
Unfortunately, this is a weekend during which we have a lot of places to go and things to do. In anticipation of putting the house up for sale in about a month, we've got to work frenetically on getting things rennovated, organized, and ready.
*sigh* Ah well. I suppose Dream Cruisers could be far more annoying. There are many lovely cars to look at (though people feeling the need to rev their engines always makes me roll my eyes), and it could have been worse. It could have been the annual Nails on Chalkboards festival.
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What's crazy about the Woodward Dream Cruise is how EARLY everyone starts cruising. Last weekend we went to Birmingham to see a movie, and traffic was SOOOO slow b/c of all the people already cruising. Plenty of people were sitting on lawn chairs near the curbs, many settled in for the night with coolers and everything...too much...
Hope you guys can make your way through the crowds this weekend!
Whew! We were going to haul down to Ikea to buy all our kitchen cabinets and such, but forget it. Actually, factoring in time and truck rental, it's about the same cost to have them delivered, so we'll let the Ikea people sit in the residual Dream Cruise traffic of the coming week. Har! :)
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