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The Fields - 26/08/2008 - 12:08 GMT - [Link]

Folks,

If you ever need to drive a loved one and perhaps your firstborn from Kildare to the airport and then get back to work in Tallaght during rush hour, do yourself a favour: no matter how shit the M50 is on the way back, just stay on it and pay the fucking toll.

Do not have a moment and say to yourself: "I know better than all these saps! I'll get off at the N3 and go down around Phoenix Park into Chapelizod, cutting across to Kilmainham, up the canal, through Walkinstown and down Greenhills Road! Ha ha! Marvel ye at my navimagational skeels!".

Knockmaroon Hill will be your undoing. You will feel the smile drain from your face as you are diverted towards the Strawberry Beds, right down in the gutter of the Liffey valley, passing far, far below the West Link bridge that you would be speeding over even now, had you only chilled the fuck out. Two kilometres of speed-bumped (for others have been "clever" like you before) country road later, you will be spat out in Lucan village and there will be nothing left for you to do but humbly turn with your tail between your legs down the Outer Ring and thence back over the N7 and down to the Tallaght bypass.

Google Maps cheerfully informs me that I covered 101km this morning. It felt much, much longer.



PS - The latter stages of the trip aren't accurately represented on the map because some of the roads are newer than Google's data. Hurry the fuck up with that and all, you fucking hippies.


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