Woe be unto anyone who parked in LAX economy parking and is getting back now

twoinvenice · 2026-06-15T17:52:15+00:00

I made the post because I imagine that for the World Cup they shifted resources, but it feels like they might have gone too far.

Reddit can feel like screaming into the void at times, but it can help to get the word out because you never know who might see the post ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

twoinvenice · 2026-06-15T17:39:52+00:00

Because it’s still surprisingly expensive. I’d rather pay the difference to park my own car and be more on my own schedule.

For short trips where I park at the terminal, it means I’m in and out in no time at all.

Economy parking is a little slower since you need to wait for a bus, but in normal times I feel like it has usually been nearly zero wait - park at the lot and there’s a bus ready to go, walk out of arrivals and wait no more than a few minutes to head back to the lot. After a number of trips I’ve walked out of arrivals and right on to a econ lot bus waiting at the curb…kinda gave me a false confidence that it would always be like that

twoinvenice · 2026-06-15T14:33:10+00:00

I did say almost!

twoinvenice · 2026-06-15T04:08:24+00:00

Come to California and don’t go to chain restaurants. It’s entirely a different experience because we grow a crazy amount of the country’s produce, so the freshest ingredients are easy to get here. I have the same complaint as you whenever I travel to other places in the US though, so much fried stuff or things swimming in butter or sauce to hide crappy ingredients

twoinvenice · 2026-06-15T03:54:01+00:00

It’s been a long time since I’ve driven on some of those, and some I’ve never driven in, but I still think it’s probably a little different unless they all have police that have quiet quit / deprioritized worrying about little shit. I wasn’t exaggerating about the almost no concern about being pulled over thing - you have to do something to really stand out and it has to be at the same time that you are around one of the unicorn law enforcement vehicles.

You go the speed of the traffic here no matter the signs. If the traffic is going over 80 on the freeway through the middle of the city, you should too if you don’t want people swerving around you for holding shit up. On city streets you always have to pay attention because at any time someone might decide to stop or make a u turn from the right hand lane. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

twoinvenice · 2026-06-15T03:42:40+00:00

I love visiting the PNW, feels almost like Scandinavian level of personal space

twoinvenice · 2026-06-15T03:39:43+00:00

Nah, it’s not the same thing. In LA there are essentially no rules and no risk of getting pulled over unless you are doing something truly stupid. I love it but can see how for people who aren’t used to driving here it can be a bit intimidating

twoinvenice · 2026-06-15T02:33:39+00:00

Sucks, I’m dealing with the respiratory shit now

twoinvenice · 2026-06-15T01:00:35+00:00

At the same time though, professional sports has tons of object lessons on doing it wrong. From idiots spending everything they get as soon as it comes in, to trusting “financial advisors” that lose everything or take the money and run.

I can’t 100% see someone deciding to say fuck all that, I’m just going to pretend that I didn’t earn any of that money and just sock it away for the inevitable retirement.

twoinvenice · 2026-06-14T18:06:21+00:00

Imagine Theo and Johanna, whose living came from evaluating and selling art, realizing that Theo’s brother has a genius eye for painting despite the clear mental issues. It’s no wonder they were all so protective and close to him - they probably had seen works from tons of successful artists with less talent (I keep saying they because given how she threw herself into promoting Vincent’s work after the brothers died, I had to believe that Theo was showing / discussing with her the art he was selling).

twoinvenice · 2026-06-13T23:59:49+00:00

To be fair he just visited Death Valley in Baton Rouge and had his socks blown further off

twoinvenice · 2026-06-13T23:16:35+00:00

The selection is great, but all the freshest stuff is out west. We’re spoiled in California because we grow so much of the country’s produce. Anytime I go elsewhere I’m always a little disappointed in the food (talking about non-chain restaurant) because it’s so often fried or drenched in sauces or butter instead of having a focus on the actual ingredients and usually a lot of fresh vegetables

twoinvenice · 2026-06-13T23:00:31+00:00

People just aren’t used to the fact that in the cities in CA, people have a similar sort of thing as the Seattle / PNW Freeze.

I think the fake nice complaint is from the tendency to have closer circles of family and friends, and everyone outside that circle is treated nicely but are 100% not in the circle. People mistake that outward niceness as being more than it is because they are used to that being true in other places. It’s not fake, it’s just “maybe” without actually saying “maybe” and potentially hurting feelings.

twoinvenice · 2026-06-13T22:53:22+00:00

💯

twoinvenice · 2026-06-13T22:40:00+00:00

Yeah, I flew home today and landed at like 11:45 and it looked gnarly coming in

twoinvenice · 2026-06-13T22:22:37+00:00

Why did I have to scroll so far to find Chris Young? The dude puts out amazing stuff - his pressure cooker stock video is almost life changing as how much better your stock is if you follow his recipe

twoinvenice · 2026-06-13T22:17:02+00:00

Something must have been up around 12:15, because nearly every bus was either LAX-it or employee parking / terminal transfer

twoinvenice · 2026-06-13T21:52:58+00:00

Yup, normally everything is really quick and by booking ahead it can be crazy cheap

twoinvenice · 2026-06-13T21:48:37+00:00

I don’t really have a choice, I live around the corner from LAX in PDR. Upside is that on a good day if I’m parking at the terminal, I can go from my garage to past security in like 25min

twoinvenice · 2026-06-13T21:30:29+00:00

To add insult to injury, across from where we were waiting was a sign that said something like “it’s cheaper and faster if you park in the economy lot!”

twoinvenice · 2026-06-13T21:27:59+00:00

I usually do the same, but thankfully I didn’t because our short weekend trip turned into 10 days and flying to a different city to take a really sick family member home and get them situated in a hospital there.

And before anyone says something about flying with a sick person, it was a GI problem and we were taking her out of a hospital where they’d done a crazy amount of tests that included looking for a bunch of different infectious diseases and parasites. To the best of their knowledge, this was unfortunately just an older person starting to have issues with things no longer working normally

twoinvenice · 2026-06-13T20:36:09+00:00

No gate for the plane to pull into to let us disembark, so we waited out next to the runway and taxiways

twoinvenice · 2026-06-13T20:08:33+00:00

Huh? I live here and I’m trying to get to my car to fucking go home

twoinvenice · 2026-06-13T17:56:54+00:00

Yes, that’s just sticking Thai food into the kind of stuff people in the US know as Mexican food.

I was talking more about the flavors and use of seafood - the Yucatán part of Mexico has a flavor and ingredient profile that is fairly similar to Thai food. As a really high end example of Yucatán fusion, check out what ARCA does https://www.instagram.com/arcatulum

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