Flashbacks:
The RNGC Caddyshackpocalypse
Bollards!
Just in time for Valentine's Day and obsessive list-readers everywhere, Reston has been named the 7th most romantic city in the United States by vaguely irritating "check-in" machine Foursquare. Apparently Foursquare interprets check-ins like this
as signifying romantic interludes. Okay then!
Using that fool-proof metric, Reston was rated as more romantic than boring Key West, Beverly Hills and Myrtle Beach. You could have sun and surf or... the Macaroni Grill.
We'll let you be the judge with a romantic Rorschach test of sorts. Which of the following evocative, romantic images stirs your
Case closed.
Only San Francisco, New York, St. Louis and a couple of places in California rank above Reston in terms of romantic-ness. The most romantic place, according to Foursquare? Disneyland, which should tell you everything you need to know about this list, the end.
Update: One of our awesome commenters shares the romantic song we should all be singing to each other on Tuesday.
Hey, nothing says lovin' like a burnt orange oven. Just saying.
ReplyDeleteOOOhh Reston!...show me your bollards and I'll show you mine
ReplyDeletePart of the ranking criteria seems to be romantic restaurants. Obviously Macaroni Grill pushed us over the edge.
ReplyDeleteC'mon, everybody, sing aloud!
ReplyDeleteMauve
Exciting and new
Come aboard
The DRB's expecting you
Mauve
Life's sweetest reward
Let the color palette float
It floats back to you*
*pending approval by cluster and DRB boards
The mauve boat
Soon will be making another run
The mauve boat
Must be electric powered and resemble a dock
Set a course for Lake Anne
Your mind on some new cupcakes.
And mauve
Won't hurt anymore
It's some red mulch
On a bed of unapproved white stone
Mauve!
Welcome aboard it's mauve, mauve, MAUVE!
I met my true love in Reston, so I think we deserve the kudos!
ReplyDeleteAnon 4:13pm --
ReplyDeleteI can almost picture it.
"Our eyes met across the smoky bar at the Macaroni Grill. By the time we'd had our frozen yogurt and artisan cupcake, we knew it was true love..."
Anon 1:40:
ReplyDeleteA classic! When all of us on Restonian collaborate to write the sequel to "Reston: The Opera", your lyrics will be immortalized forever.
Foursquare must have us confused with Virginia Beach. How could a soulless, humorless place like Reston possibly be romantic???
ReplyDelete...or so that dimwit reporter from VB would have the world believe....
Reston isn't the outskirts of Hell. Reston is Hell. Just ask anyone who's had to take on the Sisyphean task of getting approval from RA for a tree removal.
ReplyDeleteThe sun headed toward the mountains beyond Purcellville bathed my office in a furnace orange and glinted through the bottle of rye on my desk as I wiped down my .45 and reflected on just what it was that brought me to the gritty urban core also known as Reston Town Center. A sudden knock on the door sent the throbbing in my skull ever higher on the Richter scale. Through the privacy glass on the office door I could see the shapely form of a dame...a high class dresser and one that was trouble a capital T, one that knew just what she wanted. It was Valentines Day, of course...
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