Imagine you have just lost 20 precious minutes careening your bulky rental car in ever more frantic ellipses around an upscale French-themed café. (There are no open spaces on the streets of the Pacific Palisades, but there are also no SUVs clogging its pristine sidewalks, so where do the new people park? Do they all live within walking distance of the upscale French-themed café?) Instead of arriving serenely early for an intimidating interview with Larry David and Julia Louis-Dreyfus for GQ's Men of the Year issue, you now dash in exactly on time, soaked in sweat. Imagine sitting across from Larry and Julia and feeling as though you are experiencing a detailed audiovisual hallucination, because it certainly looks like you are now living inside an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Of course you can't hear anything they're saying; you are too busy hoping more than anything that a Curb-esque incident will occur during breakfast, so that you will have an anecdote to share with friends and family.
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