[PRCo] Nice photo in the UofPittsburgh library...

[D Brashear]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Fred Schneider <fwschneider at comcast.net>
wrote:

> You are correct … Allegheny River Boulevard   And no, I didn't put that
> mistake in deliberately to see who read it.    It just goes back to the old
> adage that no one can proofread his or her own writing until it has lain
> fallow for a few months and then you look at it and think, OMG, how did I
> screw that up?   Thanks Daria.
>
> I've been keeping a journal for the last year, and within minutes of
finishing an entry I can usually pick out the mistakes


> The funny thing, D., is how we remember routes from our youth even if we
> fail to remember all the street names.   Back in the 1980s I was driving my
> boss over to the state employment office in Carnegie for a program audit.
>  That was when they were redoing the Parkway East and it had all those
> cattle chutes.  By thought was, OMG, if there is an accident on the
> parkway, I could be sitting here all day.   So I got off at Ardmore Blvd.
> and drove through Wilkesburg and in Forbes.   Funny how all the shortcuts
> my father used in the 1940s came back to me.
>
> Today I use a traffic map on my phone for that, but it only helps if the
accident doesn't happen right in front of you.

--
Daria



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