Any Atlanta AT'ers here? Peachtree Avenue :o

[NFS4]

So I had a rather interesting weekend. Went to Charlotte to go see Lifehouse and then clubbin' with two of my chicas Thursday, went to Charlotte's 4th of July bash on Friday and saw Sister Hazel. Then rode down to Atlanta with some buds on Saturday morning to see two Braves games (one Saturday night, one Sunday afternoon)...

but here's the thing. Saturday night, we left the stadium looking for some "night activities" to do. So we go cruising around downtown Atlanta only to find mostly homeless people sleeping on steps and peddling for money. A friend had told us to check out the "Underground," but that place was dead as hell at 1:00 and looked rather shady anyway.

So we got on Peachtree Ave...BIG mistake. Ended up being caught on the "strip" for almost two hours and only went about 5 miles or so. So that pretty much ended our night. We still had lots of fun though yelling at the ladies as we rolled down the strip. And I myself cracked up as these four white boys in the car with me tried everything to act cool around the mostly black crowd cruising on Peachtree...including looping Tupac's "I ain't mad at ya" about 20 times in a loop I still can't stop laughing over my short, greek best friend yelling "Back that ass up" to a fine sista in the car beside us. She just gave him a look that had "Death to you" written all over it

 

[technogeeky]

Hey bro - I live in ATL. However, you'll have to realize that "Peachtree Ave" means NOTHING to us.

There are like 30 or 40 Peachtrees in the greater Atlanta area.

 

[FuzzyBee]

aahhhhh... nothing like being unexpectedly stuck on p'tree on a weekend night. sunday nights are actually worse.

underground is pretty shady.

 

[technogeeky]

Atlanta is fun though. Just gotta get to the right part. Get out of underground and go to Midtown or Buckhead.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: technogeeky
Atlanta is fun though. Just gotta get to the right part. Get out of underground and go to Midtown or Buckhead.

That's where we were trying to go. We were on Peachtree trying to go to Buckhead (that's what some half drunk guy at The Underground told us to do). But we ended up being stuck on Peachtree.

We had fun anyway

And why are there 50 million peachtrees? I was like WTF?

 

[technogeeky]

I'm not sure. Probably the same reason that roads like 41 (Cobb Parkway, Alpharetta Hwy, Roswell Hwy, Atlanta Hwy, N. Atlanta Hwy, etc) have about 400 names.

Crack city developers

 

[technogeeky]

I'm not sure. Probably the same reason that roads like 41 (Cobb Parkway, Alpharetta Hwy, Roswell Hwy, Atlanta Hwy, N. Atlanta Hwy, etc) have about 400 names.

Crack city developers

 

[FeathersMcGraw]

Originally posted by: NFS4

So we got on Peachtree Ave...BIG mistake. Ended up being caught on the "strip" for almost two hours and only went about 5 miles or so.

FWIW, if you were at the Underground, you could have just taken MARTA from Five Points up to Buckhead. Cheap, no traffic, no need for a designated driver.

 

[technogeeky]

Originally posted by: FeathersMcGraw

Originally posted by: NFS4

So we got on Peachtree Ave...BIG mistake. Ended up being caught on the "strip" for almost two hours and only went about 5 miles or so.

FWIW, if you were at the Underground, you could have just taken MARTA from Five Points up to Buckhead. Cheap, no traffic, no need for a designated driver.

Except for the fact that Marta stops at 2:00.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: technogeeky

Originally posted by: FeathersMcGraw

Originally posted by: NFS4

So we got on Peachtree Ave...BIG mistake. Ended up being caught on the "strip" for almost two hours and only went about 5 miles or so.

FWIW, if you were at the Underground, you could have just taken MARTA from Five Points up to Buckhead. Cheap, no traffic, no need for a designated driver.

Except for the fact that Marta stops at 2:00.

LOL, and I wouldn't want to be stuck where we were at 2:00. It was looking rough around those areas. We saw this one chick (about 20-21) walking by herself down the street on the other side of the road and we were like DAMN!! You're a brave woman to be walking around here by yourself at 1:15 in the morn

 

[technogeeky]

Brave indeed.

It sucks that you didn't get to see the nice part of town. Don't complain about the ATL until you come back and see Buckhead/Midtown or nicer areas.

 

[UNCjigga]

Originally posted by: NFS4
went to Charlotte's 4th of July bash on Friday and saw Sister Hazel.

cool, I was there too! Where'd you go clubbing? Time? Crush?

 

[FuzzyBee]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: technogeeky

Originally posted by: FeathersMcGraw

Originally posted by: NFS4

So we got on Peachtree Ave...BIG mistake. Ended up being caught on the "strip" for almost two hours and only went about 5 miles or so.

FWIW, if you were at the Underground, you could have just taken MARTA from Five Points up to Buckhead. Cheap, no traffic, no need for a designated driver.

Except for the fact that Marta stops at 2:00.

LOL, and I wouldn't want to be stuck where we were at 2:00. It was looking rough around those areas. We saw this one chick (about 20-21) walking by herself down the street on the other side of the road and we were like DAMN!! You're a brave woman to be walking around here by yourself at 1:15 in the morn

i bet that woman had the largest adam's apple you'd ever seen

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: uncJIGGA

Originally posted by: NFS4
went to Charlotte's 4th of July bash on Friday and saw Sister Hazel.

cool, I was there too! Where'd you go clubbing? Time? Crush?

We went to Bar Charlotte. Floor was all wet and sweaty and it was hot as HELL up in there. But the ladies were up on the bar dancing half nekid pouring water all over the guys and overall being downright tastalicious

We had to go through the rear entrance b/c the two chicks I was with were 20 and I'm 23. So I could go through the main gate, but they couldn't...so we all just went to the back. But there was this THUGGED out place beside the rear entrance of Bar. Looked like the lineup for a damn Jay-Z concert.

 

[ElFenix]

OMG you're black!?!?

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
OMG you're black!?!?

Let's put it this way. In HS, the black kids didn't like me cuz they said that I acted too white and had too many white friends

 

[Fausto]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: ElFenix
OMG you're black!?!?

Let's put it this way. In HS, the black kids didn't like me cuz they said that I acted too white and had too many white friends

There's that whole John Mayer issue as well.....

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: ElFenix
OMG you're black!?!?

Let's put it this way. In HS, the black kids didn't like me cuz they said that I acted too white and had too many white friends

HS racial politics is a bitch