We were visiting GMU with our son a couple of years ago (prospective visit; he didn’t go). They had these on campus; one got stuck underneath a box truck – not physically stuck, I mean it navigated underneath the truck and then, once there, couldn’t figure out how to get away (without touching the truck, i guess).
We’ve also seen them going up & down the sidewalk of S. Lamar, during one of our visits to Austin.
I don’t guess we’d see them in the neighborhood adjoining UMD (near where we live; also where our son ended up going to school); for one thing they don’t seem to know how to behave with (for example) electric scooters there, what with leaving them strewn across the sidewalk… (waves cane at sky)
The scooters, too, seem to have tamper-detection technology. I know when I’ve lost my temper after having to step across yet another one lying across the sidewalk, they emit an alarm & flash a strobe when I’ve tried & hoisted them out of the way*
*they are also effin’ heavy
This was in my neck of the woods on I-75 in Hazel Park/Detroit.
It’s an Amazon driver but I still haven’t seen an exolanation.
Interesting to note that Joe Shoen —CEO, president, and chairman of U-Haul—is a billionaire.
I do the same thing and you’re correct, they are deceptively heavy. I don’t care if they take a photo. If they are blocking pedestrian access to a sidewalk, I will shove them out of the way every time to help people who use wheelchairs. Fortunately, they’ve become rather passé in our city and I rarely see them these days.
Where’s the sweet green icing?
And pound cake, yum. When we were kids a slice of pound cake with Hershey syrup on top was a treat my grandma would serve us.
I love that song, here’s the 18 minute extended version.
I always wondered about those lines. Was the only copy of the recipe printed on the cake itself? 
Only because I love that song…
This is from a recent interview with the writer Jimmy Webb.
My take, based on this answer, is the recipe is a metaphor for never seeing his love again.
It was MacArthur Park, Webb says, that became a symbol for his relationship with Horton.
JW: “Everything you hear in the song is something I saw in the park, so I wasn’t just making it up, which I have sort of been accused of making stuff up and throwing it in there just to make people angry which apparently it did make a few people angry. But it didn’t make Waylon Jennings angry, he recorded it four times.”
MacArthur’s Park is melting in the dark All the sweet, green icing flowing down Someone left the cake out in the rain I don’t think that I can take it 'Cause it took so long to bake it And I’ll never have that recipe again Oh, no
That lyric stemmed from Webb learning that his love was marrying someone else.
I like this version
Oooh, this is the whole suite! Nice! Not just the first part, and as a disco version to boot!
I think this will need to go into the car mix.
Great pic. 
Also a great pic
What a lovely room!!!
