I understand how mile markers work - but they don’t always correspond to exit numbers. Here’s a list of exits on the NYS thruway, and " Exit 21" means a lot more to me than “Mile 114”. The only time I would use the mile marker is to report something to the police or to call a tow truck. The Long Island Expressway and the Grand Central Parkway also have sequential exits - I’m pretty sure the Pennsylvania turnpike did as well up until 15-20 years ago.
Thank you for this. Everywhere I’ve ever lived, mile markers and exit numbers have corresponded to one another. They are associated in my mind to such an extent that my first comment neglected to even mention exit numbers.
Is there any good reason for exit numbers to be sequential, and not correspond to mile markers? All I can think is concepts like “take the fourth exit after you leave Smallville” and someone expecting that if the last Smallville exit is 10, then they’re looking for Exit 14 no matter far down the road it is.
Yes.
Maybe.
No, there are disabled people out there, and the elderly.
I love our lawn, but I encourage clover and other “weeds”, like dandelion s, I won’t let the gardener spray herbicide.
I don’t know if this is the reason , but here are some LIE exits - mile number exits don’t work so well when there are exits less than a mile apart.
Exit Mile
13 1.43
14 1.53
15 2.09
16 2.34
17W 2.61
17E 2.61
19 5.27
20 5.58
In some areas those exit numbers would be:
1A
1B
2A
2B
2C
2D
5A
5B
At least you guys have exit numbers. We just have exit names.
Achhh, we used to dream of having exit names…
We didn’t even have exits. You had to gun your car, hit the curb just right to launch yourself over the retaining rail, tumble down the embankment, splash through the drainage ditch, then make it up the hill on the other side and onto the street you wanted.
And we liked it. Kept the riffraff off our streets.
Driving through Texas I was perplexed by highway signs that said “please use exits”. Then I saw tire tracks leading off the highway into fields and understood it was a literal request.
I had a kindergarten “graduation” in 1956. It was a parochial school, not public, so I don’t know if that was why.
Oh, Ebenezer Scrooge! Adults need Halloween as much as kids. When else can you dress up as whoever - or whatever - you please?
To me, Halloween is very much like April 20, St Patrick’s Day and its little cousin Saint Practice Day. All are an excuse to dress oddly and drink to excess.
Agreed. Hardly anyone seems to care what any given holiday is about anymore.
April 20 is an excuse to… drink?
Yes!!!
Hydration, hydration, hydration. Stamp out cottonmouth.
Father Andrew Greeley had a great essay against heavy drinking on St. Patrick’s day. He attributed it to people internalizing and acting out a common anti-Irish prejudice. He further noted that the Irish were traditionally an abstemious people - partly driven by their lower economic status.
Hah!! My favorite Pittsburgh Punk Band, The S.P.U.D.S. (special people under doctor’s supervision) will tell you otherwise. The lead singer is Irish. They’ve played thirty consecutive Thanksgiving Eves.
That’s not how it works. Halloween is the day BEFORE you wake up dressed in strange attire.
Wait, people dress you up in costumes while you’re sleeping, or passed out?
Oh, now I get it! You dress up in outlandish costumes for All Saints’ Day!
“Hey, lookit me, I’m Martin Luther!”
“Yo, Marty! I’m Hildegard of Bingen! Let’s get crazy!”
“Fo’ sho! Be sure to bring those girls dressed up as Sexy Jesuits!”
Waitstaff are not the only people who receive tips (think porters and bus drivers), nor are they the only people involved in my dining experience.
~Max