Not quite getting it - it's the American way.

I missed out on my walk last night so I went around the park this morning instead. This morning is the annual HeartWalk at our local park - where people walk a mile or two miles for charity to raise money for heart disease awareness. However, in true American fashion, the organisers didn't quite get it. All the parking for the event is at the local high school which is in one corner of the park. It's a quarter mile walk from the parking lot to the HeartWalk staging area. In the parking lot there are no signs on how to get there even though it's just around the corner. Instead there are fleets of shuttle buses that bus people to the walk. Just to put into perspective how idiotic that is, because of the kerbs in the middle of the road that prevent left turns, and the one-way system around the park, for the shuttle buses to get to the staging area, they have to DRIVE 3 miles -- to get people to the WALK -- which is only a quarter of a mile away. Even worse, the shuttles are then ferrying people back the quarter of a mile to the parking lot.
Sort of explains a lot about why people are the size they are in this country.
The map below shows the walking route from the parking lot (in green) and the route the buses have to drive (in red). Genius.
Oh - and as an added bonus, Strawberry Shortcake was there this morning, although she was wearing dark sunglasses so I couldn't see if she looked at me or not.

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