You Know You’re an Interstate Yuppie If…
Tonight’s entry proudly sponsored by The Map Room, a neat little spot in downtown Memphis next to a trolley stop.
1. You bring your own ground coffee, press pot, and stop in gas stations for hot water.
2. The towering Starbucks sign, a beacon of hope and light–not for coffee, but for a New York Times
3. You count the different kinds of fonts used on billboards
4. You stop in Cracker Barrel for Burt’s Bees lip balm.
5. When you pass crumbling, abandoned gas stations and other Americana icons, you want to stop and shoot pictures.
6. You say, “I don’t think they have NPR in Arkansas.”
7. You pack Odwalla juice along with your Lunchables.
8. You compare and contrast the architectural distinctions of state rest stops.
9. You drive twenty miles past the exit ramp fast-food joints to lunch at a diner in some random town’s historic district.
10. Will enter this one on the way home…