City Limits

Made on 2/16/22; found while looking through old files

        The postmodern city of Tetra is composed of buildings on square blocks. Its name comes from how each building takes up 4 blocks of space. The only square building is the supermarket in the exact center; all the others are oddly shaped mansions. Roads are placed wherever possible between the houses, and for easier access a side road which also forms a square demarcates the city limits.

I drove through the city to map it out. I started by entering from the side road through the only northern entrance. At the first intersection, I chose a direction at random which then immediately forced me into a right turn. I took the next available left with hopes of finding the market, and at the turn afterward I saw it.

I remembered that the entrance to the supermarket was on the center of one of its sides, but in a state of slight disorientation I had forgotten which one. So, I circled around it clockwise until I reached it at the very last possibility. I parked my car by the entrance and went inside. Later, when I got back to the car, I saw that there was a road which came toward the entrance. A fork could be found in the distance. I flipped a coin and turned right at that intersection.

At some point I reached the side road again. I wasn’t interested in staying on it for long, so seeing that the third turn would continue on it, I took the second. I never ended up on it again for the rest of the trip.

The next two intersections were 4-way. I drove straight through them. At some point, I ended up back at the very first intersection and it occurred to me that I hadn’t visited the same intersection twice beforehand.