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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I agree with you in theory, of course. I do understand why people unfamiliar with driving in and around DC panic and do crazy maneuvers to make the exit, though. If you miss your exit on the GW Parkway near the Memorial Bridge, for example, you don't get a chance to turn around for quite some time. Driving on the Rock Creek Parkway can be similarly fraught. I don't know how you all navigated the tangled up roads by the Kennedy Center or the Memorial Drive/GW Parkway zig-zags without GPS. [/quote]

Circa the mid-90s, my then-boyfriend (visiting from out of state) tried to drive into Clarendon to meet me. He took eastbound Rt. 50, missed the exit and kept going over the Roosevelt Bridge. From there, he looped off onto Rock Creek Parkway, intending some sort of cloverleaf or “go up and turn around” maneuver. Except it was rush hour, and RCP is one-way…

He finally bailed out at Mass Ave and spent a good hour fighting his way back down to a bridge, any bridge, that would get him the hell back to Virginia. The poor man wound up marrying me — but it’s to his credit that he didn’t insist we pick up and move to someplace with more comprehensible traffic patterns. [/quote]

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