Pulldown menus of states make me STABBY. Because I live in Minnesota, which is the M state below Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Michigan. And yet EVERYONE SEEMS TO USE THEM.
Although today I filled out a paper form -- which was sent from St. Paul, which as you may know, is next door to Minneapolis and also close to several other cities with long-ish names including Bloomington, Vadnais Heights, Little Canada, and Inver Grove Heights. And yet the line for your city was maybe an inch long, and then right next to it was a line for state that was ALSO an inch long. I only need two letters for my state! My city requires 11! Do people think about these things for two seconds?!??? (When I'm filling out forms in Minneapolis I usually write "Mpls" in the city blank but there is a certain rivalry and I would be a little bit worried that the St. Paulite processing the form would pretend she had no idea what "Mpls" was.)
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Date: 2011-07-19 01:05 am (UTC)Although today I filled out a paper form -- which was sent from St. Paul, which as you may know, is next door to Minneapolis and also close to several other cities with long-ish names including Bloomington, Vadnais Heights, Little Canada, and Inver Grove Heights. And yet the line for your city was maybe an inch long, and then right next to it was a line for state that was ALSO an inch long. I only need two letters for my state! My city requires 11! Do people think about these things for two seconds?!??? (When I'm filling out forms in Minneapolis I usually write "Mpls" in the city blank but there is a certain rivalry and I would be a little bit worried that the St. Paulite processing the form would pretend she had no idea what "Mpls" was.)