[speeder]

It's bizarre and epidemic the way that people raised in California commonly refer to traveling south as "up" and north as "down".

As in, "I'm going up to San Diego", (starting from Los Angeles), or "down to Santa Barbara..."

It just happened to me the other day on the phone, talking to some young guy selling something on CL. I'm not talking about something that has happened once or twice, it's extremely common and extremely bizarre. It would be one thing if they just said, "I'm going to Santa Barbara". But always with the *up* and *down* and always ****ing backwards!! Drives me insane, as you can see...

It's as though something in their inner ear or whatever the fk tells us up from down and left from right is upside-down. If memory serves, we are all actually upside-down but gravity creates the illusion that we are right side up and our eyes correct it automatically(?) I can't remember. But it drives some other part of my brain into biotch-slapping kookoo.