It’s a rare day......

........I can return directly home from the Canandaigua YMCA.
Yesterday (Monday, July 29, 2008) I had to run two errands after the YMCA; one to Victor Power Equipment, and the second to the Funky Food Market.
Involved is a long trip down the Thruway — from Canandaigua to Henrietta — although not Victor Power Equipment.
My point is a long journey was required; unlike coupling the YMCA with the Canandaigua Weggers.
The Funky Food Market is in the Rochester Regional Market in Henrietta, built long ago as an outlet for area marketers.
Businesses set up outlets in Regional Market, but it has since become more of an office-park, or outlet-mall.
The Regional Market was hard by the Rochester Bypass, so railroad sidings were built into it.
The rail sidings have been removed, since they were hardly used, and Regional Market could use the space.
Regional Market is a long, wide north-south strip; attached stores in a long building on the east side, a wide paved area in the center, wider than a football-field is long, and then stores on the west.
The stores on the west side are more separate; stores with an end fronting the wide paved center area, with wide paved driveways between stores 90 degrees from the center paved area.
Funky Food Market is one of these stores.
The center paved area is marked as a street on the west side, parking in the center, and the east half can be used for driving or unloading semis parked at loading-docks.
So here I am quietly navigating north on the west-most street area, leaving the Funky Food Market.
I notice a powder-blue metallic Toyota Matrix crossing the semi area to the east — she appears to be headed for the street area.
She crosses the parking area; no signal, no look, not even a glance in her mirror.
Merges blindly in front of me, requiring I slam on my brakes.
Too bad I wasn’t 20 yards farther ahead; she coulda merged right into me, and then be loudly incensed I was even there.
Sorry chillen; no Dubya-sticker. (Sure drove like a Dubya-supporter.)

“The Funky Food Market” is Lori’s Natural Foods, south of Rochester in Henrietta — a source for salt-free cereal, sauce, etc.

“Victor Power Equipment” is in the nearby town of Victor.

New York State “Thruway;” Interstate-90.

“Weggers” is Wegmans, a large supermarket-chain based in Rochester we often buy groceries at. They have a store in Canandaigua.

“The Rochester Bypass” is the old West Shore railroad-line south of the city — it bypasses Rochester; doesn’t go through. The “West Shore” was a line financed by the Pennsylvania Railroad built to compete directly with the New York Central Railroad in New York state in the late 1800s. It was merged with NYC at the behest of J.P. Morgan, who got all the warring parties together on his yacht in Long Island Sound. The NYC got the West Shore for no longer financing the proposed South Pennsylvania Railroad (which was graded but never built, including tunnels, which were incorporated into the Pennsylvania Turnpike). It was called the “West Shore” because it went up the west shore of the Hudson River. It’s been largely abandoned west of the Hudson, although the segment around Rochester became a bypass around Rochester.

“Dubya-sticker” is a Bush-Cheney 2004 bumper-sticker. All insane traffic-moves seem to involve Bush-supporters. They seem to think they have the right.