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Old 11-07-2008, 03:37 AM   #24
MadBob
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Yes, from the point of view of your friends and family who are still in the real world. But from your own point of view, you are in Limbo, eternally circling around on the expressway system.
Sounds exactly like spaghetti junction Birmingham, a motorway junction masquerading as England's largest car park!

I know that you may have a motorway junction called Spaghetti Junction in your country too. Birmingham’s Spaghetti Junction was the first Spaghetti Junction, and it is still the largest motorway junction in Europe. About 150,000 vehicles, and 5 million tons of freight, pass through Spaghetti Junction every day.

If you travel by road in Britain, sooner or later you will pass Spaghetti Junction. You'll remember it because it is the place where the traffic gets really bad, the journey gets really boring and the kids start fighting in the back of the car. If you take the wrong road at Spaghetti Junction, you will find yourself in London instead of Manchester. Some people who took the wrong road at Spaghetti Junction five years ago are still trying to find their way home.

It is not just a motorway junction. Underneath the motorway there are two railway lines, three canals, a river and several footpaths. There is a Birmingham joke that two of the roads at Spaghetti Junction are dead-ends.
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